Security Engineer - Junior
On-site · Los Angeles, California, United States
Job Summary
Security Engineer - Junior role spanning cloud, on-prem, air-gapped, and highly restricted environments; design, implement, and continuously improve security controls across corporate, product, and regulated environments; collaborate with software engineers, IT, infrastructure, nuclear, and operations teams to embed security throughout product development and operations; support NRC licensing, compliance, incident response, vulnerability management, IAM controls, and secure SDLC practices; contribute to GRC activities and policy documentation; hybrid and highly secure architectures for regulated settings; requires prolonged hours as needed.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience across infrastructure, product, cloud, or security operations domains.
- Experience working in regulated environments such as federal, defense, nuclear, classified, ITAR, or similarly controlled settings.
- Strong technical knowledge of cloud security, network security, endpoint security, IAM, and security monitoring.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, IT, compliance, and operations teams to drive security improvements.
- Experience supporting NRC licensing, classified facility buildouts, or federal frameworks such as NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, RMF, or STIGs.
- Familiarity with hardware security, embedded systems, industrial control systems, or operational technology environments.
- Experience designing or operating secure architectures for hybrid cloud, air-gapped, or highly restricted systems.
- Experience contributing to security policies, control documentation, audits, or compliance evidence collection.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain security risks and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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