Cybersecurity Engineer

Data-Core Systems Inc.

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Posted on: 9/20/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Virginia

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Mid-LevelSenior

FirewallsSplunk

About the role

Participate and effectively contribute to the design, development, and implementation of complex applications
Provide technical expertise and systems design for individual initiatives
Perform penetration testing on systems, networks, and applications to identify security weaknesses
Analyze vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation methods
Produce reports that include findings, risks, and conclusions
Recommend security improvements and methods to mitigate security risks
Collaborate with IT and other SME consultants to determine testing requirements and implement solutions
Create and implement new penetration testing methods, scripts, and tools
Manage Splunk data-collection infrastructure, including UF deployment, syslog servers, heavy forwarders, HTTP Event Collector, and Splunk Stream
Re-architect or modify syslog aggregation for Splunk and expand log source collection
Develop custom scripts for data collection or integration to non-standard products

Mid-level experience
Penetration testing: Performing remote or onsite tests on systems, networks, and applications to identify security weaknesses
Analyze vulnerabilities and mitigation methods
Provide reports including findings, risks, and conclusions
Recommend security improvements and methods to mitigate security risks
Collaborate with IT to determine testing requirements
Create and implement new penetration testing methods, scripts, and tools
Splunk management: management of data collection infrastructure and deployment of Splunk Universal Forwarder (UF) instances
Manage syslog servers that collect data from infrastructure systems (firewalls, IDS, UPS or other syslog generating devices)
Configure and manage Splunk heavy forwarders and Splunk HTTP Event Collector integrations
Use Splunk Stream to capture wire data and output raw or statistical information when used
Re-architecture or extensive modification to syslog aggregation for Splunk (configuring new storage, building for high availability, etc.)
Expand log source collection of existing source types
Custom script development for data collection or integration to non-standard products
Ability to work with other SME consultants