Security Engineer — NASA Mission Cloud

About this role

MRI Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Security Engineer on the NASA Mission Cloud (NMC) team, supporting the Mission Enabling Services Contract (MESC). In this role, you will own the security tooling, harden the cloud infrastructure, and drive vulnerability remediation at scale across a production GCP platform running 12+ GKE clusters across ITAR, Moderate, and Low impact boundaries.

You will work alongside cloud engineers, compliance specialists, and NASA stakeholders-building detection coverage, enforcing least-privilege access, and integrating security controls into the CI/CD pipelines that keep the platform moving. You should be comfortable writing code: whether it is Python automation for CVE triage, Go tooling for policy enforcement, or shell scripting for security checks in CI pipelines, this role expects you to build things, not just configure them.

A typical day might begin with triaging new CVEs identified across container images or reviewing overnight alerts from the security monitoring stack. By midday you could be writing Python automation to streamline a vulnerability remediation workflow or integrating a new security check into a GitLab CI/CD pipeline. In the afternoon, you might be conducting an IAM drift analysis across cloud resources, evaluating a new supply-chain security tool like Chainguard or Sigstore, or investigating an anomaly flagged by the SIEM. The work is hands-on, engineering-first, and operating at a scale where your improvements have immediate, measurable impact on systems that carry NASA's mission workloads.

What We Are Looking For

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent
• 4 or more years of relevant security engineering experience
• Experience with cloud security engineering on GCP or an equivalent cloud platform (AWS or Azure)
• Hands-on experience with container security, Kubernetes hardening, and image vulnerability scanning
• Working knowledge of IAM principl...