Cyber Engineer, Principal I

Hiring a full-time Cyber Engineer, Principal I to be involved with commercial, custom and/ or government computer product vendors in designing, evaluating, and architecture of state-of-the-art secure GOTS/ COTS applications, operating systems, networks, databases, and custom-built technology in Arlington, Virginia.

Attention to detail, honesty, out-of-the-box thinking with a problem-solving mindset, and the ability to work under pressure and deliver on tight delivery schedules are very much desired.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide technical leadership for the engineering team implementing differing technologies to include Azure and/ or AWS Cloud, firewalls, web application firewalls, VPNs, DNS, Data Loss Prevention, IDS/ IPS, proxies

Develop security systems for any manual or automated systems environments, which comprises on-prem and Cloud-based systems

Ensure protection of organization data against unauthorized disclosure, accidental or intentional loss of data, and unauthorized modification

Lead cyber security teams working with a variety of different tools and appliances, security challenges, and troubleshooting various complex issues

Administer management of security appliances, tools, products, and aspects of the information system and perform daily security operations, as well as Operations and Maintenance (O and M) of the system

Provide security tools for administration, management, troubleshooting, and testing

Experience/ familiarity with the following;

Network Protection Devices: Firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow, and packet analysis

Cloud services offered by Microsoft or Amazon (Azure Sentinel) *SIEM is most desired)

Support Projects and Project management personnel throughout the full software development lifecycle

Manage technology roadmaps with each product, propose briefs, and report recommended actions based on best practices

Perform full product testing to the length of the product's capabilities as required

Develop capabilities according to customer requirements, NIST, DHS, government guidelines and regulations

REQUIREMENTS

US Citizenship

Active Secret clearance

Must be able to obtain a TS/ SCI clearance

Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

Shift work may be required

EXPERIENCE

8+ years of engineering, operating, and managing layered security integration for on-premise or cloud/private cloud environments

4+ years of management and implementing a Tenable Nessus environment

2+ years with AWS/ Azure infrastructure services in security focused role

Advanced knowledge of AWS and Azure architectural concepts

SIEM integration

Handling incidents across multiple operating systems

Excellent written and oral communication skills

EDUCATION

BS in a related field and a minimum of 8 years relevant work experience (2 years related work experience may be substituted for each year of education)

DESIRED

EXPERIENCE

One or more of the following;

RSA Security Analytics (NetWitness), Symantec Bluecoat, ForeScout CounterAct, McAfee ePO, Cisco FirePower (SourceFire), RedSeal, SecureSphere Imperva, Tenable Nessus, Azure Sentinel, TAPs, Cloud technologies, Project Management processes to include SAFe & Agile

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Windows/Linux Admin, Azure Sentinel/ other Cloud SIEM, CISSP, Security+, Network+, Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)

Vendor-specific certification for aforementioned products/ similar certification

EOE