Security Engineer (Remote) at GovCIO
Albany, NY
$145,000–$165,000from the description
Jul 2, 2026
Albany, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior security engineering role focused on a federal data modernization program, primarily involving vulnerability identification and remediation across cloud environments (AWS and Azure), Linux and VMware systems, and containerized workloads. Day-to-day work includes guiding customers through security impact analyses, supporting secure data ingestion, and maintaining security documentation and governance controls. Suits experienced cybersecurity professionals familiar with federal frameworks such as NIST, RMF, or FedRAMP.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,350 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 1,400–3,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,021 (middle half $99,961–$167,095). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The title in the body alternates between 'Security Engineer' and 'Senior Security Engineer'; advertised seniority is treated as Senior based on the explicit 'Senior' framing in the body text.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree plus 8 years experience … or commensurate experience', which accepts equivalent experience in lieu of a degree — the degree requirement is therefore set to None.
The clearance field is set to None: the posting requires only the ability to obtain a Public Trust suitability determination, which is not a US security clearance.
AWS and Azure both appear in the Required section as specific platforms used in the role; they are marked as hard gates. The broader 'cloud security' requirement is also a hard gate from the Required section.
NIST, RMF, and FedRAMP are listed together as examples of required security frameworks; RMF is emitted as the primary with FedRAMP as an alternative, and NIST stands alone as it is a distinct framework family.
All skills under 'Preferred Skills and Experience' — including Linux, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, Databricks, Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, AWS EKS, ServiceNow/Jira/SharePoint, CockroachDB, Shell, and certifications — are marked preferred.
IBM Rational tools suite, ADF (Azure Data Factory), and Azure Synapse appear only in the Preferred section's stack list and are omitted as they name no single canonical tool that would be a standalone skill gate.
RedHat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu are both variants of Linux; consolidated under 'Linux' to avoid redundancy.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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