SkillBridge Military Transition Program – Staff Security Engineer (Security Platforms & Automation) Trainee

About the role

The Digital Information Security Engineering team is seeking a transitioning military service member to participate in a SkillBridge Staff Security Engineer role focused on hands-on security engineering, automation, and platform integration.

Responsibilities

• Learn to design, build, and maintain secure APIs that expose security platform capabilities.
• Gain hands-on experience with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and abuse protection mechanisms.
• Work alongside experienced engineers using API gateways, service meshes, and service orchestration platforms.
• Contribute to API documentation, runbooks, and operational support materials.
• Develop Python-based automation to streamline security workflows and operational tasks.
• Build integrations and scripts connecting security tools, SaaS platforms, and data sources.
• Apply secure development lifecycle practices, including: Threat modeling, Secure code review, Static and dynamic analysis.
• Observe and assist in evaluating AI-powered security tools and automation frameworks.
• Optional / Nice-to-have: Participate in the design or testing of agentic workflows, such as: AI-assisted alert triage or correlation, Policy-driven automated response actions.
• Learn governance, observability, and safe operational usage of AI in security environments.
• Understand how production security services meet availability, reliability, and performance objectives.
• Participate in troubleshooting and incident response for security APIs and services.
• Translate requirements into secure technical designs under mentorship.
• Participate in peer reviews and technical discussions to build confidence in civilian engineering environments.

Qualifications

• Active-duty U.S. military service member approved for DoD SkillBridge participation.
• Background in one or more of the following (from military experience, training, or self-study): Cybersecurity operations, Information assurance, Network or systems administration, Software, scripting, or automation, Signals, communications, or IT operations.
• Familiarity with at least one programming or scripting language (Python strongly preferred but not required at entry).
• Ability to obtain and maintain required access approvals.

Skills

• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP – military equivalents acceptable).
• Containers or virtualization technologies.
• Security tools, SIEMs, or defensive cyber operations.
• Interest in software development, automation, and platform engineering.

Benefits

Note: Civilian degree requirements and years-of-experience expectations are intentionally flexible for SkillBridge participants. Military training, operational experience, and demonstrated aptitude are valued equally. Common—but not required—military specialties include: Army: 17D, 17C, 170DAir Force / Space Force: 1B4X1, 1D7X1Z (Software Development Ops), 1D7X1DNavy: CWT / CTNMarine Corps: 1721

Pay

Compensation or pay for this role is made through the service member's current enlistment contract based on pay guidelines set by the Department of Defense (DoD)

Schedule

This posting is a new position within our organization.