Cleared Security Engineer- Ts/Sci Clearance Required

We pride ourselves on an open, and honest culture in the workplace which builds morale conducive to inspiring growth on our team, while balancing lifestyle by supporting personal and family goals with flexibility. We offer secure network systems and software engineering solutions in both the public and private sectors. With certified experts consulting the team, we are able to address the customer's mission and follow-through in the systems development life cycle. 

Clearance Required: TS/SCI Title: Security EngineerLocation: Columbia, MDSalary Range: $150-180KResponsibilities:The Security Engineer is responsible for effective design, implementation, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of the IT infrastructure. This includes server administration, virtualization, performance tuning, backup and restore, and storage. The security engineer leads in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure and ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values.  

• Upgrade systems by implementing and maintaining security controls and maintaining IAVA, STIG and RMF compliance.  
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
• Configure / add new services as necessary.  
• Implement, manage, and maintain security tools and applications such as WSUS, HBSS, ACAS.  
• Performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.  
• Analyze, diagnose and determine root cause of issues, test, communicate, and either resolve or escalate for resolution appropriately.  
• Evaluate and recommend tools and products for enterprise IT systems.  
• Designs, develops and implements security requirements within an organization’s business processes.  
• Prepares and maintains documentation to support SSPs and other RMF related requirements.  
• Recommends and implements system enhancements to improve security deficiencies.
• Secures system configurations and installs security tools, scans systems in order to determine compliancy and report results and evaluates products and various aspects of system administration.
• Provides assistance in computer incident investigations.  
• Performs vulnerability assessments including development of risk mitigation strategies.  

Required for the Job

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• 4+ years of experience in implementing IT system security on network enterprise environments
• Required IAT Certs: one or more of the following: CASP+ or CISSP
• Required Vendor Cert:  Microsoft, VMWare, Cisco, Netapp, Pure Storage, HP, Dell, Linux+, RedHat, HBSS, ACAS.  If not currently achieved, then must achieve within 6 months of hire

Benefits:

We offer a competitive benefits and compensation package and FUN place to work! Benefits include, but not limited to:

Health and Wellness Benefits

• Medical Insurance (three CareFirst healthcare plans to choose from, Dental and Vision Insurance, 75% covered for employee/ 50% per dependant

• Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions $1500 individual/ $3000 family

Personal Insurance Benefits 

• Company-paid Life Insurance and AD&D coverage

• Company-paid Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance

Paid Leave

• Employees receive 20 days of vacation/10 holidays built into hourly rate/ 5 days of sick time (currently used for snow, jury, bereavement) 

Retirement

•  Pre-tax 401k program including 6% company match

• 100% fully vested from eligibility date

*Eligible after 90 days of employment

Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, pregnancy, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.