Senior Information System Security Engineer
MKS2 Technologies
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $100,000 - $120,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityFirewallsJenkinsTerraform
About the role
- Analyze complex technical findings and determine necessary resources needed to solve problem-sets across multiple cybersecurity and technical domains
- Able to 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
- YOU MUST HAVE Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or technical equivalent with 10 years of technical experience or a total of 18 years in lieu of education
- 8+ years of security engineering, DevSecOps, or cloud architecture experience
- Expertise in securing platforms hosted in AWS GovCloud and Azure Government
- Strong experience with NIST RMF, FISMA, FedRAMP, and Zero Trust architecture implementation
- 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
- Demonstrated experience securing modern applications, APIs, and automated infrastructure
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to explain complex, technical information in easily understood terms; ability to brief Senior VA leadership regularly
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
Benefits
- Full Government benefits (W-2)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cybersecuritycloud-native architectureCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure as codepolicy as codesecurity engineeringDevSecOpsnetwork isolationautomated infrastructuresecurity control remediation
Soft skills
communication skillstechnical analysisproblem-solvingcollaborationbriefing skills