SecOps Engineer – Secret Clearance, Travel Role
PGTEK
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Oklahoma City • Alabama • Oklahoma • United States
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Salary
💰 $110,000 - $145,000 per year
About the role
- Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts and incidents using **Elastic Security (SIEM/XDR)**
- Design, deploy, and maintain the **Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana)**
- Develop and tune detection rules, dashboards, and alerting workflows
- Conduct threat hunting and advanced log analysis
- Perform vulnerability scanning and analysis using tools such as **ACAS / Tenable**
- Track and remediate vulnerabilities in accordance with federal timelines
- Coordinate patching and mitigation efforts with infrastructure and application teams
- Implement and maintain controls aligned with **NIST 800-53, FISMA, and FedRAMP**
- Support **ATO (Authority to Operate)** activities including documentation and evidence collection
- Produce compliance and CDM reporting using Elastic dashboards and data feeds
- Integrate security monitoring and logging into **CI/CD pipelines** and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Automate ingestion, enrichment, and response workflows using **Python, Bash, or PowerShell**
- Enforce secure configuration baselines (STIGs, CIS benchmarks)
- Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to embed security observability into system design
- Advise stakeholders on risk posture, detections, and mitigation strategies
- Communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
Requirements
- Hands-on production experience with the **Elastic Stack (ELK)**
- Direct experience using **Elastic Security** as a SIEM/XDR platform
- Log pipeline design, parsing, enrichment, and lifecycle management
- Security event monitoring, alert triage, and incident response
- Linux and Windows security administration
- Scripting or automation experience (**Python, Bash, or PowerShell**)
- Experience in **cloud or hybrid environments** (AWS, Azure, GCP, or GovCloud)
- Strong familiarity with NIST 800-53, 800-61, 800-137
- FISMA federal cybersecurity requirements
- FedRAMP control implementation and monitoring
- Experience supporting audits, assessments, or **ATO packages**
- **Active Secret Clearance**
Benefits
- comprehensive PPO medical coverage with access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) option
- vision plan
- dental insurance with the base dental plan option paid for by PGTEK
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long-Term disability
- Critical Illness insurance have premiums covered
- matching 401(k) plan
- discount on pet insurance through ASPCA Pet Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program available at no cost to all employees
- generous amount of PTO and Holidays
- Education Assistance Program available after 12 months of employment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Elastic SecurityElastic StackElasticsearchLogstashBeatsKibanaPythonBashPowerShellvulnerability scanning
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationrisk assessmentincident responsestakeholder engagement
Certifications
Active Secret Clearance