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Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Engineer - Onsite - Lompoc, CA (Top Secret Required)
Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Engineer - Onsite - Lompoc, CA (Top Secret Required)-February 2024
Los Angeles
Feb 28, 2026
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About Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Engineer - Onsite - Lompoc, CA (Top Secret Required)

  Are you looking to elevate your cyber career? Your technical skills? Your opportunity for growth? Deloitte's Government and Public Services Cyber Practice (GPS Cyber Practice) is the place for you! Our GPS Cyber Practice helps organizations create a cyber minded culture and become stronger, faster, and more innovative. You will become part of a team that advises, implements, and manages solutions across five verticals: Strategy, Defense and Response; Identity; Infrastructure; Data; and Application Security. Our dynamic team offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge cyber security tools and grow both vertically and horizontally at an accelerated rate. Join our cyber team and elevate your career.

  We require a seasoned Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) SME with a desire to actively defend the mission systems critical to our national defense.

  As a Mid-engineer the candidate will work with other engineers to apply expertise on multiple complex work assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks.

  Work you'll do

  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 best fit based on mission, architecture and current threat.

  Design, implement, configure and/or tune cyber defensive technology.

  Author documentation to include SOPs, checklists, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, crew binders, etc. to support DCO.

  Adapt technologies to meet the mission architecture and threat.

  The team

  Deloitte's Government and Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes-is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of more than 15,000 professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise

  At Deloitte, we believe cyber is about starting things-not stopping them-and enabling the freedom to create a more secure future. Cyber Infrastructure is focused on rethinking how security is integrated across modernized infrastructure as cyber threats become more complex. If you're seeking a career implementing, architecting, and-in select cases-handling next generation controls to manage security risks and exposure, then the Cyber Infrastructure team at Deloitte is for you.

  Qualifications

  Required:

  A minimum of a Bachelor's degree required

  Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

  Active Top Secret security clearance required

  Experience using cyber reconnaissance to support a federal client

  Experience working with cloud infrastructure

  Experience utilizing software asset management

  Must be IAT III Certified

  5 years of technical experience in cyber-defense or cyber security related fields (e.g., engineering, networking, systems integration, solutions etc.)

  5 years of professional technical experience (these years may be in conjunction with #2). Experience years must come from at least 2 of the following areas:

  Container or virtual environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, AWS)

  In-band and out-of-band test access points for network traffic collection and aggregation (e.g. Gigamon)

  Linux operating systems (Red Hat, Kali, etc.)

  Preferred:

  Prior professional services or federal consulting experience

  Previous Security Operations Center experience

  Experience in mobile and endpoint security

  Certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CEH, CISSP)

  The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $92,981 to $179,438.

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  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

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