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title: 'Cyber Security Project Engineer at Swift'
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# Cyber Security Project Engineer at Swift

- **Company:** Swift
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group/am9icG9zdDrt0y2rjY4MIbm5Gq5OHCMW

## Job description

Swift is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.

Swift is looking for a Cyber Security Project Engineer to support a dynamic program in Chantilly, VA. In this role, you will support a group level security and architecture team responsible for safeguarding highly sensitive, co mingled data across multiple network environments. You will help research, design, develop, accredit, and maintain complex security systems, applying deep technical expertise to ensure the protection and resilience of the Customer’s most sensitive information.

Responsibilities:

- Assist with the Authorization and Assessment (A&A) process for all systems in the Customer's portfolio across all network fabrics.
- Serve as the focal point for responding to Computer Network Attacks (CNAs), malicious code incidents, data spills, and other cyber incidents.
- Track Plan of Action and Milestones (POAMs) through closure, including regular reporting.
- Understand and clearly articulate policy engine rules related to the Customer's portfolio.
- Act as a Point of Contact (POC) for IT operations.
- Participate in a Customer working group that handles extremely sensitive data and track/optimize cloud costs, including developing cost models for IC and DoW partners.
- Support the Customer’s technical forums and review boards.
- Review proposed technical solutions and architectures, provide findings, and research potential solutions, including producing whitepapers.
- Stay familiar with Cloud Service Provider offerings and evaluate them for use with highly sensitive data.
- Apply expertise in encryption techniques and products to determine the best solution for specific problem sets.
- Serve as the focal point for cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
- Maintain an in‑depth technical understanding of the Customer’s tools and assist external partners with adoption and use.

Requirements:

- Demonstrated experience accrediting systems that handle extremely sensitive data
- Demonstrated experience accrediting systems on multiple network fabric
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing, or maintaining systems that handle extremely sensitive data
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing, or maintaining systems on multiple network fabrics
- Demonstrated experience with Cloud Service Provider (CSP) offerings, specifically AWS, Azure, and Oracle
- Demonstrated experience optimizing cloud hosted systems for cost and performance efficiencies
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing, or maintaining systems used globally
- Demonstrated experience with hybrid cloud architectures
- Demonstrated experience designing or maintaining on prem architectures
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required

Desired Experience:

- Demonstrated experience on Service of Common Concern (SoCC) programs.
- Demonstrated experience designing and standardizing DevOps processes.
- Demonstrated experience with the Customer's suite of tools.
- Demonstrated experience supporting IC and DoW programs
- Demonstrated experience with the Customer's Configuration Management Database (CMDB) processes and procedures.
- Demonstrated experience with the Customer's system accreditation suite of tools
- Certification(s): Cloud Service Provider certifications

Do you know anyone for this position, or other positions open at The Swift Group? We offer a $5,000 bonus for any referral candidate we hire, paid out at the new hire’s 90-day mark.

We are not working with outside staffing agencies to fill this position, and we will not be accepting unsolicited resumes. All inquiries must go through the recruiting team.

## #LI-DI1

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## About Swift

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Swift Group provides national security technology and mission support by combining experienced field operatives with expert technologists.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding stage)
- **Headquarters**: Reston, VA, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: National security, defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, training and logistics.
- **Target customers**: U.S. Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community agencies (B2G).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “When national security leaders need something built quiet that hits loud, they turn to Swift.” — The company pairs field operators with technologists to solve complex national security challenges with speed, discretion, and precision.

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **HPC Research & Technical Advisement**: Specialized advisement for revolutionary high-performance computing systems supporting data-intensive missions.
- **Software Development & Data Solutions**: Rapid prototyping, agile development, and applied data science tailored to mission needs.
- **Cyber Enablement**: Network defense, offense, threat analysis, and resilience for enterprise and operational environments.
- **Operations**: Mission planning and execution support delivered shoulder-to-shoulder with client teams anywhere in the world.
- **Training & Mission Support**: Operator-led instruction and technical training across the full mission lifecycle.
- **Energetics**: Advanced research, advisory, and deployment of energetic materials to improve system performance and operational effect.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (privately held).
- **Key Metric**: Over **126 open positions** currently listed on the careers page, signaling rapid growth.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Growt Signals**: Founded in 2019, now has multiple offices (Reston, Annapolis Junction, Chantilly, McLean, etc.) and supports customers across the U.S. and globally. High volume of active job postings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Operator-led approach**: Combines real-world field experience with cutting-edge engineering, reducing the gap between mission needs and technical solutions.
- **Integration**: Unified teams of operators, engineers, and analysts work together, avoiding siloed tools.
- **Discretion and trust**: Emphasizes low-profile, off-the-record work, earning deep trust from national security clients.
- **Acountability**: Company culture of owning outcomes, with a flat, agile structure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding capabilities in cyber, HPC, and data science while maintaining operator-driven agility. Continued support for sensitive, high-stakes missions across civilian, defense, and intelligence domains.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven, employee-focused, with a strong sense of purpose. Values include transparency, integrity, service, and innovation.
- **Work environment**: Low-profile, high-impact. Roles often require clearance and on-site presence at client locations (e.g., Chantilly, Annapolis Junction, Reston). Not fully remote; likely hybrid or on-site.
- **Bnefits**: Comprehensive healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time-off benefits.
- **Success stories**: Clear career progression from analyst to chief architect, with wide pay bands (e.g., $50k–$290k) indicating room for growth and specialization.

## Sources
1. [theswiftgroup.com/company](https://theswiftgroup.com/company/)
2. [theswiftgroup.com](https://theswiftgroup.com/)
3. [careers.theswiftgroup.com](https://careers.theswiftgroup.com/)
4. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group)

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