
Security Engineer/Architect
Hubnex Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $100,000 - $110,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityFirewallsIoTJenkinsTerraform
About the role
- Analyze complex technical findings and determine necessary resources needed to solve problem-sets across multiple cybersecurity and technical domains for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs systems
- Lead teams to assess, develop and implement technical solutions to remediate vulnerabilities and other complex cybersecurity challenges
- Facilitate working sessions and distill complex concepts into non-technical/common language
- Partner with technical teams to develop and implement technical solutions
- Design, build, and deploy secure cloud-native architectures and infrastructure components for VA information systems
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning, policy enforcement, and remediation tools
- Implement secure infrastructure as code/policy as code using tools such as Terraform/CloudFormation, including writing and implementing PaC scripts
- Align security architectures with Federal Zero Trust strategy, VA directives, and OMB policies
- Enable automation of system telemetry and analytics pipelines for cyber situational awareness
- Provide engineering and technical analysis on behalf of Agency Authorizing Officials (AOs) for System Security Plans (SSPs), Risk Assessments, Security Controls Traceability Matrices (SCTMs), and POA&Ms
- Support system authorization and compliance activities including continuous monitoring and system audits
- Conduct regular and ad-hoc analysis of security control findings and develop and implement remediation strategies
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or technical equivalent
- 10 years of relevant technical experience or 18 years of total experience in lieu of degree
- At least 2+ years acting as an ISSE or working as a security engineer for federal systems
- Eight (8) years minimum of security engineering, DevSecOps, or cloud architecture experience
- U.S. Citizenship and must be able to obtain a Public Trust security clearance from the U.S. Government
- Rebellious attitude and willingness to challenge the status quo
- Expertise in securing platforms hosted in AWS GovCloud and Azure Government
- Strong hands-on implementation experience with most of NIST RMF, FISMA, FedRAMP, and Zero Trust architecture
- Hands-on skills in IaC tools like Terraform and CI/CD tools such as GitLab/Jenkins, with ability to adopt new technologies if procured by the agency
- Experience with network isolation tools such as Palo Alto Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) and Juniper Mist Network Access Control (NAC) solutions or comparable
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to explain complex, technical information in easily understood terms; ability to brief Senior VA leadership regularly
- Experience with IoT/IoMT security solutions is a plus
Benefits
- one of the best benefits packages in the industry
- financial support during the probationary period
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cybersecuritycloud-native architectureCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure as codepolicy as codesecurity engineeringDevSecOpsnetwork isolationIoT securityZero Trust architecture
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationanalytical thinkingadaptabilitytechnical writingfacilitationcritical thinkingwillingness to challenge status quo
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s Degree in EngineeringPublic Trust security clearance