Cyber Engineer II

Residency Status: ALL Candidates Must Be A U.S. Citizen

Clearance: Must have Active/Current Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.

Time Type: Full-Time, Daytime Schedule - Remote

Relocation Fees: No

Travel: No

Company Overview:

NAOVI is a premier technology services company that provides solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Information Management and Systems Integration. NAOVI is a business that combines experience, creativity, flexibility, pragmatism, and cost-effective solutions in order to deliver measurable business value to our clients.

Headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, NAOVI employs engineers, analysts, IT specialists and other professionals who strive to be the best at everything they do.

Novel Applications of Vital, Inc. (NAOVI) is an AA/EEO Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.

Job Description

NAOVI is seeking a qualified is seeking a Cyber Engineer that designs, develops, documents, analyzes, tests, integrates, debugs, conducts research and/or discovers and analyzes security flaws or vulnerabilities in software, networks, systems, and applications. The Cyber Engineer ensures system security needs are established and maintained for various objects/matters.

Primary responsibilities:

• Analyze output from various security devices and malware and incident reports to improve detection of and to minimize future incidents.

• Assess and analyze system security to identify and mitigate risks and vulnerabilities.

• Recommend countermeasures to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities.

• Prepare/Update documentation, including incident reports, security recommendations, etc.

• Assist in identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating the protection of critical cybersecurity infrastructure and key resources.

• Perform basic system design functions, including interpretive analyses, chart preparation and associated diagrams/enhancement plans.

• Test existing and new technologies.

• Review/analyze requested changes for equipment, technology and/or other factors/trends, which are planned for deployment in the customer space.

• Support the configuration and administration of cyber security tools and systems.

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship.

• Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.

• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability.

• 2+ years of applicable experience in cyber security.

• Experience with commercial cyber tools and technologies.

• Experience with standard security principles, policies, standards and industry best practices.

• Experience and knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, topology, sockets and security) and web technologies (Internet security).

• Experience or knowledge of intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow and packet analysis.

• Understanding and ideal experience with Windows or Linux/Unix operating systems (LINUX is used primarily for this position).

• Possesses or quickly develops an understanding of Government Information Security.

• policies, regulations, and guidelines.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Security Event Incident Management (SEIM), Log Correlation and Network Behavior Anomaly detection systems.

• Experience and/or familiarity with development languages such as: Java, Swing, JUnit, Perl, Python, HTML.

• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with VMware and virtual machines.

• Ability to write custom tools and modify existing intrusion detection tools.

• Experience with Agile development methodology.

• Experience with automated testing tools.

• Experience with one or more of the following:

• Security COTS integration.

• Security Incident Event Management.

• Insider Threat Monitoring.

• Operating System Hardening.

• Vulnerability Assessment testing.

• Identification and Authentication schemes.

• Public Key Infrastructure and Identity Management.

• Cross Domain Solutions.

• Computer Network Exploitation (CNE).

• Computer Network Operations (CNO).

• Malware Analysis.

• Reverse Software Engineering.

• Security engineering.

Required Education:

• Bachelors degree in cyber security, Information Security, Software Engineering or a related discipline is required. [Four (4) years of experience (for a total of six (6) or more years) may be substituted for a degree.]