Cybersecurity Integration Engineer at Peraton
Beltsville, MD
$86,000–$138,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Beltsville, MD
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on evaluating, integrating, and testing cybersecurity tools within a federal enterprise environment, with a focus on vulnerability scanning (including Tenable), system hardening, and transitioning solutions to operations teams. The work also involves maintaining technical documentation, supporting risk assessments, and collaborating across network and infrastructure teams. It suits an experienced cybersecurity engineer with a current Secret clearance, relevant certifications, and hands-on background in RHEL Linux, Azure, and enterprise networking.
Mid level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $152,225 (middle half $125,286–$177,673). 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 (10)
The role sits at the intersection of cybersecurity analysis and infrastructure/systems integration, making the SOC classification a genuine judgment call. The primary day-to-day work — assessing, integrating, and testing security tools, performing system builds, and supporting vulnerability scanning — aligns most closely with Information Security Analysts (15-1212), but the heavy networking and system-integration emphasis also supports Network/Systems Admins (15-1244).
Clearance: the JD requires an active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a final Top Secret. The hard gate is Secret; TS is an upgrade requirement, not a current possession requirement — so Secret is the clearance level coded.
Degree requirement is coded None because the JD explicitly allows substitution of 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
Total years minimum is set to 5 (Bachelor's + 5 years path), as that is the baseline stated; the Master's + 3 years path is an alternative, not a lower floor for the general population.
Tenable is listed under Minimum Requirements in a narrative context ('Provide engineering support for Tenable vulnerability scanning') but appears as a named tool only under Preferred Qualifications — it is marked preferred accordingly.
Wireshark, tcpdump, and traceroute are listed together as interchangeable diagnostic tools in a single requirement; Wireshark is used as the primary with the others as alternatives. Splunk appears in the same sentence but is a distinct platform and is emitted separately.
SMB and SFTP are named networking protocols in the requirements but are not discrete tools/platforms — they are captured under the broader TCP/IP networking requirement rather than emitted as standalone skills.
The professional certification requirement (CISSP, CASP+, Security+, etc.) is a hard gate but names no single technology tool; it is a credential requirement that cannot be represented as a named technology skill and is therefore not listed in the skills array.
SAFe Agile certification appears under Preferred Qualifications.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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