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Junior Cyber Engineer

SAICPortsmouth, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 18 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This remote Junior Cyber Engineer role at SAIC offers fantastic opportunities to develop your cybersecurity skills while contributing to impactful projects in a reputable company, with a competitive salary range. You'll thrive here if you're eager to learn, passionate about secure coding and system monitoring, and ready to grow your career in a dynamic field. Apply now to launch your cybersecurity journey!

Quick Overview

Salary
$40.0k - $80k/yr
Work Type
Remote
Level
Junior

Job Description

Job ID: 2614642

Location: Portsmouth, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-07-16

Category: Cyber

Subcategory: Cyber Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: Interim_Top_Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking a Junior Cyber Engineer in Portsmouth, VA.

Job Duties:
  • Implements system configuration and monitoring changes in order to increase effectiveness or efficiencies in the system s capabilities in regards to monitoring and implementing logical access controls in order to enforce policy.
  • May support cybersecurity and/or cyberspace operations metrics development, maintenance, and reporting.
  • Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs cybersecurity and/or cyberspace operations application software using secure coding practices.
  • Provides specific, detailed information for selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements, facility requirements, data storage, backup, monitoring, operating systems, directory services, identity management, access management, and automation.
  • Ensures compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.


Qualifications

Qualifications:
  • Bachelors in Cybersecurity or related field and (0) years of experience.
  • Active Security + Cert.
  • Familiarity with Naval shore C4I system testing and cyber review experience.
  • Familiarity with NUTANIX based platforms.
  • Familiarity with RMF and ATO process for NAVWAR systems.


Target salary range: $40,001 - $80,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .

Skills

Compliance

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