Security Engineering Lead
Agile Defense
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Reston • Virginia • United States
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About the role
- Engineer, integrate, and maintain CSOC capabilities and platforms, ensuring effective configuration management and performance optimization.
- Advance Zero Trust principles, automation, and telemetry coverage across both cloud and on-premises environments.
- Assess and test emerging technologies; develop comprehensive technical reports and implementation plans to support modernization initiatives.
Requirements
- Minimum required A+, Security+ or Network+; CISSP certification.
- Bachelor's Degree
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience security administration systems and support.
- Strong working knowledge of Security Services, Networking, Security Policy, and Consulting.
- Proven experience in installing, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting network security solutions and related monitoring tools including Layer 2 / Layer 3 network devices, Network Admission Control (NAC), 802.1x, Firewalls, IDS / IPS, VPN Solutions, Web Application Firewalls, Content Filtering, fault analysis.
- Advanced working knowledge of encryption algorithms, Operating Systems (Linux, windows), secure communications, SIEM technologies, and embedded systems security.
- Advanced working knowledge of network and data communication protocols.
- Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field such as NIST, FISMA and Common Criteria regulations and standards.
- Experience with Network based IDS / IPS technologies and affiliated modes of operation; experienced in evaluating new technologies and processes that enhance security capabilities.
- Supervise changes in software, hardware, facilities, telecommunications and user needs.
- Experience with Test security solutions using industry standard analysis criteria; experience with the delivery technical reports and formal papers on test findings; experience responding to information security issues during each stage of a project’s lifecycle to include.
- Strong scripting skills (bash PowerShell) and ability to use automation tools such as ansible, or puppet.
- Produce technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, and detailed root cause analysis reports.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Benefits
- Competitive and comprehensive benefits package
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Hard Skills & Tools
network security solutionsencryption algorithmsLinuxWindowsSIEM technologiesnetwork communication protocolsscripting (bash, PowerShell)automation tools (Ansible, Puppet)network devices (Layer 2, Layer 3)Network Admission Control (NAC)
Soft Skills
communication skillstechnical documentationsupervisionproblem-solvingreport writing
Certifications
A+Security+Network+CISSP