Communications Technical Support Services (CTSS) Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Location:
Columbus, OH - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 150000 - 173000
Posted:
30 September 2026 (4 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
28 December 2026
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Clearance: Active Top Secret (TS) with favorable NACLC eligibility
Work Schedule: On-site 5 days/week.
Position Overview:
The Cybersecurity Engineer provides advanced technical and analytical support for specialized information assurance and cybersecurity initiatives at the Defense Logistics Agency. This position delivers comprehensive security engineering throughout the entire system lifecycle-including planning design development testing demonstration and integration-and partners with cross-functional teams to ensure secure and compliant network and system architectures aligned with Department of Defense cybersecurity policies.
Core Responsibilities:
Execute technical and analytical tasks supporting specialized information assurance and cybersecurity projects.
Integrate electronic processes and methodologies to identify analyze and resolve system-level and technology-based information assurance challenges.
Analyze and interpret information security requirements to ensure compliance with DoD and organizational cybersecurity policies standards and best practices.
Apply data-driven systematic approaches to optimize workflows organizational structure and planning for cybersecurity operations.
Deliver security engineering support at all stages of the system lifecycle from initial planning and design through development testing and integration.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the secure and compliant implementation of network and system architectures.
Recommend and implement advanced security measures and controls to safeguard information systems against unauthorized access or misuse.
Support continuous monitoring and risk management activities to maintain secure resilient system configurations.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Minimum of seven (7) years of relevant IT experience including demonstrated cybersecurity or information assurance engineering responsibilities.
Proven experience supporting government agencies customers or contracts within federal environments (e.g. Intelligence Community Department of Defense federal civil agencies or military organizations).
DoD 8570 / 8140 CND-IS certification required (ex. CEH CFR GCIA or GCIH).
Computing environment certification required: F5 Certified Technology Specialist BIG-IP ASM (F5-CTS ASM).
DoD-approved 8570 baseline certification at IAT Level III (ex. CASP CE CCNP Security CISA CISSP or CISSP Associate GCED GCIH or CCSP).
Active Top Secret clearance with favorable NACLC and eligibility for IT-I (Tier 5 / SSBI) Critical-Sensitive clearance.
Desired Qualifications:
Prior experience supporting similar contracts with in-depth understanding of customer environments requirements and operational landscapes.
Hands-on experience with BIG-IP ASM policy engineering including policy creation tuning and production operations in blocking mode.
Experience working in a DLA environment especially DLA Land and Maritime DLA Aviation or DLA J6.
Required Experience:
IC