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Browse 9 open roles in Security in District of Columbia. Employers hiring now include Palantir, Databricks and GardaWorld Security Services U.S.. The latest role was posted less than an hour ago.

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VxL

Part-time

Security Escort

Schedule: Part-time. Weekday daytime core hours, Monday through Friday, with federal holidays off. Shifts are at least 4 hours. Work outside core hours is occasional and approved in advance. Status: This position is contingent on contract award. About the role: Escort visitors who are not cleared through a secure government facility, keeping them within authorized areas and making sure security procedures are followed. Responsibilities: · Brief escorted visitors on facility security, safety rules, and prohibited items · Escort visitors who are not cleared, including maintenance and construction workers, and keep them in authorized areas at all times · Follow and enforce facility security procedures · Report security concerns or incidents right away · Coordinate with Access Control Officers and the Site Supervisor · Complete required security and annual training (scheduled off post, with relief coverage) Requirements Minimum qualifications: · U.S. citizenship · Active TS/SCI clearance · At least 21 years of age (contract requirement) · High school diploma or equivalent · At least 2 years of qualifying experience: access control, physical security monitoring, escorting, static guard, law enforcement, or military service (combat arms, military police, or physical security duties), or related security oversight in a controlled government or defense facility · Current CPR, AED, and First Aid certification (or able to obtain before start) · Able to walk, stand, sit, and stoop for up to 12 hours · Fluent in English; able to understand and apply written rules and procedures · Eligible for a DoD Common Access Card (CAC) · Willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement and, if required, submit to a counterintelligence polygraph Benefits Benefits: Paid sick leave, holiday and leave benefits as applicable to part-time staff, and paid training. Uniforms provided. VxL Enterprises is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Washington, District of Columbia, United States
39 minutes ago
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GardaWorld Security Services U.S.

Full timeOn call

Security-Off Duty Police Officer at GardaWorld Security Services U.S. Washington DC

Job Description: GardaWorld Security Services is Now Hiring a Tactical Armed Consultant! Washington, DC : Please apply using an email address and phone number that you can check for further communication from a recruiter! FORMER/ RETIRED POLICE OFFICER: ACTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SAFETY ACT CARD REQUIRED (LEOSA)! Ready to suit up as a Tactical Armed Consultant? What matters most in a role like this is your ability to read the environment, anticipate risk, and act accordingly. Tell us about how your keen sense of observation is one of your greatest strengths. As a Armed Consultant – Tactical, physical ability is essential as you will be moving around your entire shift, patrolling environments such as retail stores, airports, detention centers, etc. The Tactical Armed Consultant reports to the Project Manager! What’s in it for you: Location and Site Type: Washington DC. Multi Story TV Media Headquarters Building. On call only. Not guaranteed a schedule. The ideal candidate will be flexible to cover call offs, leave of absences, and emergency open posts of the armed team. Must have a valid driver's license for cases where driving a company vehicle is needed. Must pass a background, MVR, and social media check. Competitive hourly wage is $40.00/ Hr (DailyPay is available for GardaWorld employees!) A comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, a 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer matching contributions, paid time off (PTO) policy, paid holidays, disability coverage, and life insurance options (depending on the hours worked) Career growth opportunities at GardaWorld Responsibilities of Tactical Armed Consultant Excellent customer service skills Indoor Foot patrols Static/ standing posts included in patrol routes Threat assessment/mitigation De-escalation skills Incident response and incident report writing skills Soft skills Excellent interpersonal skills Excellent verbal/written communication skills Analytical skills Plain clothes (business casual attire) Must have and utilize their own 9mm caliber weapon and holster. Plus have a secondary weapon of either OC, baton, or handcuffs. Must stand and walk for 8+ hours! Must uphold grooming policy CCTV camera monitoring experience Must have experience with email and various other technology (smartphones, Outlook, Microsoft) Perform standard security functions as needed as the armed presence on site provides general supervision of the security team. Reports to Project Manager Qualifications of the Tactical Armed Consultant You have a high school education or equivalent (GED) Must be able to pass various background checks and a drug screening LEOSA Required (12+ Years Former Law Enforcement) Minimum 12 years of Law Enforcement experience ( Former Police Officer only ) Must possess a valid and active LEOSA credential that is not nearing expiration Military experience is NOT accepted, unless Military Police with 12+ years active service In the United States, GardaWorld Security remains the only guarding security company to be Certified by Great Place to Work . Apply today – this could be more than a job! 26% of our corporate employees started as frontline workers. If you’re ambitious with an entrepreneurial spirit – someone who wants to be a GardaWorld Ambassador – a promising career awaits you! GardaWorld Security is a global champion in sophisticated and tailored security solutions, employing and training highly skilled and dedicated professionals across the globe. Not the job for you? Make sure to check out all our jobs! We also have concierge, surveillance, and even casual roles available. It is the policy of GardaWorld Security Services to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, or disability in accordance with applicable federal laws. In addition, GardaWorld Security Services complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to hiring, placement, assignment, promotion, termination, layoffs, recalls, transfers, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. It is also the policy of GardaWorld Security Services not to honor requests that employees be assigned on the basis of sex or any other classification protected by law, unless such request is based on a bona fide occupational qualification for that assignment . Licensure SAB2031

9mm caliber weapon and holsterOC, baton, or handcuffsCCTV camera monitoring+10
Washington, District of Columbia, US
6 days ago
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Palantir

Full-timeHybrid

Platform Engineer - Identity Infrastructure

A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As a Platform Engineer on Palantir's Identity Platform team, you will design, build, and operate secure-by-design identity infrastructure and tooling. You will make identity governance and access management easier and more secure to implement for Palantirians and customers worldwide. As part of Palantir's best-in-class Information Security organization, you will research, implement, and scale innovative solutions that help Palantir stay ahead of a dynamic threat landscape. You will help the team build the next-generation identity platform that treats agents and workload identities as first-class principals: the access graph that makes entitlements legible, the policy engine that makes authorization enforceable and auditable, and the token-issuance layer that keeps access short-lived, scoped, and least-privilege by default. Your work will shape the arc of these components from design to production. You will join the high-performing Identity Platform team, engineers who are passionate about delivering identity outcomes at scale that reduce risk and friction. The team builds and operates the identity platforms that serve both corporate and production (customer-facing) infrastructure, and the paved-road tooling and secure baselines that teams across Palantir deploy on. Your goal will be to make the secure path the easy path. Your work will directly strengthen the identity substrate beneath Palantir's most critical deployments, from a globally distributed workforce to regulated and air-gapped environments. Core Responsibilities Develop automation and tooling for corporate and customer-facing identity platforms Build, secure, and manage geo-redundant containerized services (EKS and ECS) in AWS and Azure Scale the implementation of Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations across multiple Entra ID tenants using infrastructure-as-code frameworks Build tooling to standardize and scale operational workflows across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Extend the identity platform to non-human identities, treating workloads and AI agents as first-class principals with scoped, short-lived credentials Build the governance layer: an access graph that makes entitlements legible and a policy engine that makes authorization decisions enforceable and auditable Design token-issuance and federation flows that make least-privilege, ephemeral access the default Research and drive adoption of emerging authentication and session security standards (such as device-bound session credentials and continuous access evaluation) in collaboration with Security Engineers Pressure-test designs and partner with Identity Security Engineers to threat model implementations before they ship Partner with Security Compliance Engineers to build services that reduce the cost and complexity of compliance enforcement What We Value Technical proficiency in identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, LDAP, Kerberos, FIDO2, WebAuthn) Experience managing identities and governance workflows on platforms such as Entra ID, Keycloak, AWS Cognito, or Okta Experience with policy engines and authorization-as-code, and with relationship-based access modeling or entitlement graph design Experience with token issuance and federation, including OAuth 2.0 token exchange, short-lived credentials, and workload identity federation Non-human identity experience: workload and machine identity (service-to-service authentication, mTLS, workload attestation), plus interest in agentic identity (agents as principals, delegation and on-behalf-of flows, and attribution across a delegation chain) What We Require 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, software engineering, or an equivalent discipline, with a strong passion for security Experience deploying and operating containerized services (EKS, ECS, or similar) in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Experience building and operating production services or APIs, not only automation scripts Expert-level proficiency in a language such as Go (preferred), Python, or TypeScript Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, or similar) An active TS/SCI security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one Salary The salary range for this position is estimated to be $135,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual's relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives. Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies. Benefits • Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance • Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance • Commuter benefits • Relocation assistance • Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based • 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs) • 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year • Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events • Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents • Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation • Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child • Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan Life at Palantir We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region. In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office. If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process , please reach out and let us know how we can help. Please note that you will never be asked to submit a payment or share financial information to participate in our interview process. If you suspect that you've been contacted by a scammer, we recommend you cease all communication with the individual and consider reporting them to the relevant authorities, such as the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) . If you would like to understand more about how your personal data will be processed by Palantir, please see our Privacy Policy .

Washington, D.C.
3 months ago
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Palantir

Full-timeHybrid

Information Security Engineer - Infrastructure Security

A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role We're looking for an Information Security Engineer who can think broadly about how infrastructure is built, attacked, defended, and improved. You may have deep experience in one area—such as endpoint security, Active Directory, Data Loss Prevention, cloud security, identity, or detection and response—but you’re motivated by solving security problems across the environment. As an Information Security Engineer focused on infrastructure security, you'll help protect Palantir's global endpoints, servers, identity systems, applications, networks, and data flows. You'll work across teams to reduce attack surface, improve defensive controls, investigate security events, and turn security findings into durable architectural and operational improvements. This is not just a corporate security role; the adversaries we face are sophisticated. We need someone who understands both the details and the broader system: how a weakness in one part of the environment can create risk somewhere else, how controls interact, and how to build security improvements that hold up in practice. Core Responsibilities Design, implement, and improve security controls across endpoints, servers, identity systems, cloud services, SaaS applications, networks, and data flows. Drive security posture improvements through hardening standards, configuration management, vulnerability remediation, access controls, monitoring, and ongoing validation. Assess security risks in new platforms, products, architectures, vendors, and services, and turn findings into practical recommendations and engineering work. Build and maintain automation for security operations, including configuration validation, drift monitoring, patching, access reviews, policy enforcement, alert triage, and security hygiene. Partner with Identity, Infrastructure, Engineering, Legal, and other Information Security teams to strengthen security architecture and address recurring risks. Turn insights from assessments, red team exercises, incident investigations, and operational reviews into durable fixes, such as configuration changes, architectural improvements, policy updates, and automation. Build expertise in one or more security domains while contributing across the broader infrastructure security lifecycle. What We're Looking For Experience securing one or more major infrastructure domains, such as Windows, macOS, Linux, Active Directory, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, networking, identity systems, or enterprise endpoints. A broad infrastructure security mindset and curiosity about systems beyond your primary area of expertise. Familiarity with common infrastructure attack paths, adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and the controls used to prevent, detect, and contain them. The ability to assess complex environments and recognize how weaknesses across identity, endpoints, applications, networks, cloud services, or data flows can combine to create risk. Experience evaluating security tools and validating that controls are deployed effectively and continue to work as intended. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, CI/CD, or other approaches to making security controls repeatable and scalable. What We Value The ability to own projects, make progress through ambiguity, and balance competing priorities while working well with colleagues. Experience in complex, high-assurance, regulated, or rapidly changing environments. Comfort moving between strategic problem-solving and hands-on technical work. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks and work with partner teams to drive remediation. Contributions to security programs, tooling, automation, incident investigations, or technical research—whether public or internal. What We Require 5+ years of hands-on experience in information security, infrastructure security, security engineering, security operations, or a closely related field. Demonstrated experience securing at least one major infrastructure or security domain, with the ability and interest to work across multiple domains. Active TS/SCI security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one. A strong sense of ownership, sound judgment, and integrity. Salary The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $145,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives. Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies. Benefits • Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance • Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance • Commuter benefits • Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based • 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs) • 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year • Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events • Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents • Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation • Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child • Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan Life at Palantir We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region. In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office. If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process , please reach out and let us know how we can help. Please note that you will never be asked to submit a payment or share financial information to participate in our interview process. If you suspect that you've been contacted by a scammer, we recommend you cease all communication with the individual and consider reporting them to the relevant authorities, such as the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) . If you would like to understand more about how your personal data will be processed by Palantir, please see our Privacy Policy .

Washington, D.C.
7 months ago
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Palantir

Full-timeHybrid

Information Security Engineer - Insider Risk

A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As an Insider Threat Detection Engineer, you are responsible for protecting Palantir's people, data, and most sensitive assets across the globe. Your technical expertise is matched by your integrity and genuine passion for security. You work well on a team, are highly motivated, and thrive on solving problems and taking on new challenges. Your team serves as a critical line of defense, responsible for the 24/7 prevention, detection, and investigation of security events and active threats across Palantir's environment. This role focuses on all aspects of Detection and Response with a strong emphasis on identifying and mitigating insider risks. Your work will directly impact the success of Palantir's mission by making it difficult for adversaries — both external and internal — to compromise our global network. Core Responsibilities Engineer and automate end-to-end detection and investigation workflows, continuously improving Detection and Response infrastructure Develop alerting and detection strategies to identify malicious or anomalous behavior, including new and novel defensive techniques that adapt to evolving adversary tactics and tradecraft Dissect network, host, memory, and other artifacts originating from multiple operating systems and applications. Investigate security events and active attacks across the enterprise, uncovering sophisticated threats and identifying patterns of behavior that indicate insider risk Influence and inform security controls designed to safeguard Palantir's most critical assets Partner closely with other members of the Information Security team to lead changes in the company's network defense posture. What We Value Broad exposure to multiple security subject areas, including a strong background in forensics or threat intelligence Deep exposure in Incident Response or Detection Engineering Desire to further the information security community through substantive contributions (e.g. conference talks, blog posts, public tool development, etc.) Comfort in operating autonomously and engaging across business levels to advise on security outcomes. What We Require Extensive security experience (3+ years) in at least one major platform (e.g. AWS, Azure, Windows, OS X, Linux, etc.) Proficiency in Python (preferred), PowerShell, or similar Familiarity with endpoint telemetry and log sources from at least one major operating system Experience with common SIEM/SOAR platforms and proficiency writing queries against security event data Active TS/SCI security clearance or eligibility to obtain a security clearance. Salary The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $145,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives. Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies. Benefits • Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance • Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance • Commuter benefits • Relocation assistance • Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based • 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs) • 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year • Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events • Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents • Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation • Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child • Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan Life at Palantir We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region. In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office. If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process , please reach out and let us know how we can help. Please note that you will never be asked to submit a payment or share financial information to participate in our interview process. If you suspect that you've been contacted by a scammer, we recommend you cease all communication with the individual and consider reporting them to the relevant authorities, such as the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) . If you would like to understand more about how your personal data will be processed by Palantir, please see our Privacy Policy .

Washington, D.C.
7 months ago
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