Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Description

The company is a long-term contract supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The team of network and cybersecurity professionals designs, builds, buys, deploys, runs and upgrades NGA networks and their security posture to support national security.

This is a senior, full-time role on a cyber engineering team working with current technologies.

Travel is up to 10%, local only.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure and deploy on-premises and cloud cybersecurity infrastructure and applications on Windows and Linux.
• Build and run cybersecurity solutions on cloud services including EC2, EBS, ELB, S3 and RDS. Provision AMIs, install software, and troubleshoot and maintain systems.
• Help research and roll out enterprise-wide cybersecurity solutions, capabilities and upgrades that meet customer business and mission goals.
• Assess changes and technology upgrades for performance, standardization and industry best practices, and recommend them.
• Give detailed guidance on hardware, software, implementation methods and tools, including current and future capacity needs.
• Represent customer requirements in technical discussions with other government agencies.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams.
• Build and maintain a roadmap for capabilities, operations and technologies.
• Help write and run test plans and supporting documents for all network configuration changes, and get customer approval before implementation.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and external assessors on security assessments and authorization processes.
• May act as a team or task lead.

Requirements

• Hold a TS/SCI clearance and be able to obtain a polygraph.
• Hold a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology or a related field. Without a degree, you need 8+ years of related work experience.
• Have 6+ years of technical experience in network or cybersecurity engineering, including large-scale enterprise or global networks in a highly diverse environment with a focus on DoD capabilities.
• Hold DoD 8140.01 and 8570.01-M Information Assurance Technical Officer (IAT) Level III certification.
• Obtain CSSP Infrastructure Support certification within 6 months of your start date.
• Have deep expertise in one of the following and working knowledge of one or more of the others: Network Detection and Response (Vectra, Extrahop, Corelight etc), Endpoint Detection and Response (Carbon Black, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender), Next-Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto, Juniper, Cisco), Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (Cisco Firepower), F5 platforms, email/web security gateways (Proofpoint, Cisco).
• Have a strong technical background with a thorough grasp of cloud infrastructure, security principles, compute, storage and transport.
• Have expert knowledge of Windows and Linux server operating systems.
• Write clearly and communicate well, including analytical documents and presentations to senior and executive management.
• Work independently with little direction.
• Have demonstrated experience modernizing complex enterprise cybersecurity systems.

Conditions

Full-time, regular employee.

Travel up to 10%, local.

Clearance: TS/SCI required to start.

Salary range is $113,200 - $237,800. Final pay depends on location, Federal Government contract labor categories and wage rates, relevant experience, skills, education and certifications.

The company offers a flexible work-life balance, competitive pay, and learning and development opportunities. Equal opportunity applies.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education and time off.
• Flexible time off and access to learning resources.