Lead Security Engineer

What this role involves

Ardent is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure systems across enterprise environments. The role involves collaborating with teams to define security requirements, identifying vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance with federal security standards. This hybrid position is based in Rockville, MD, and requires a minimum of 8 years of experience in security architecture or engineering.

Skills this posting asks for

• security architecture
• cloud security
• cdm
• devops
• ci/cd
• infrastructure as code
• network security
• cissp
• cap

Requirements

• 8 years of experience
• Level: lead
• Remote policy: hybrid

From the employer’s posting

At Ardent, we hire people who want more than a job — they want to serve a mission that matters. Our teams support the federal government’s most critical national security and defense priorities, helping protect the nation, strengthen resilience, and advance the techno…