Senior Cloud Security Engineer

About this role

ABOUT DRAGONFLI GROUP

Dragonfli Group is a cybersecurity and IT consulting firm providing services to federal, state, and municipal government agencies as well as Fortune 100 enterprises. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Dragonfli supports clients in securing mission-critical systems across on-site, hybrid, and fully remote environments.

ROLE SUMMARY

Dragonfli Group is seeking a Sr Cloud Security Engineer (Hybrid/Multi-Cloud) to directly implement technical security strategy for a large federal agency operating a massive hybrid ecosystem comprising 30,000+ physical sites and diverse multi-cloud tenants. In this role, you will design and build the automated guardrails protecting assets, data, and identity infrastructure across private data centers and public cloud environments, ensuring a high-quality security posture through continuous compliance automation, fraud mitigation, and proactive threat detection. The role requires managing environments with 10,000+ workloads and serves as a senior technical resource embedded in a large-scale federal program, with escalation support provided by Dragonfli's senior engineering team. Candidates with 8 or more years of cybersecurity engineering experience, including at least 4 years focused on large-scale cloud or hybrid environments, are encouraged to apply.

This is a multi-year contract position involving a large US federal agency. Candidates with previous federal contracting experience are preferred. U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency required. If hired, all work related to this role must be performed within the continental U.S.

RESPONSIBILITES

• Design and implement automated compliance assessments to enforce hardening standards such as CIS and NIST across cloud accounts and on-premises virtualized environments
• Architect and maintain data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption strategies spanning physical data center servers and cloud-native storage
• Develop and secure an enterprise Identity Fabri...