Senior Cyber Defense Engineer - TS/SCI (On-site)

Position Overview

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity so our clients can operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively secure their future. Recruiting for this role ends on October 24, 2025. This role is part of Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice, where our people, ideas, technology, and outcomes help federal, state, and local government clients as well as public higher education institutions anticipate disruption and reimagine the possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate with appreciable latitude in developing methodology and presenting solutions to problems.
• Contribute to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable.
• Consult on IT and cyber defensive architecture and technologies.
• Assess assigned cyber key terrain to thoroughly understand the mission, architecture, and associated threat.
• Advise on technical design and implementation of DCO capabilities required to effectively protect, detect, and respond to cyber threats and attacks.
• Research cyber defense technologies for the best fit based on mission, architecture, and current threat.
• Design, implement, configure, and/or tune cyber defensive technology.
• Author documentation including SOPs, checklists, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, and crew binders to support DCO.
• Adapt technologies to meet the mission architecture and threat.

Required Qualifications

• BS degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.
• Must be able to work full time on-site in Denver, CO.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance required.
• Experience using cyber reconnaissance to support a federal client.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure.
• Experience utilizing software asset management.
• 7 years of technical experience in cyber-defense or cybersecurity related fields (e.g., engineering, networking, systems integration, solutions).

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior professional services or federal consulting experience.
• Experience in container or virtual environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, AWS).
• Experience with in-band and out-of-band test access points for network traffic collection and aggregation (e.g., Gigamon).
• Proficiency with Linux operating systems (e.g., Red Hat, Kali, etc.).
• Previous Security Operations Center experience.
• Experience in mobile and endpoint security.
• Certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CEH, or CISSP.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: $88,600.00 to $147,600.00, based on skill sets, experience, certifications, and other factors.
• Incentive Program: Eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program based on individual and organizational performance.
• Competitive benefits package available for project delivery-focused professionals.