Supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment, including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Seeking a Cyber Engineer to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
The Cyber Engineer designs, develops, documents, analyzes, tests, integrates, debugs, conducts research and/or discovers and analyzes security flaws or vulnerabilities in software, networks, systems, and applications. The Cyber Engineer ensures system security needs are established and maintained for various objects/matters.
Responsibilities: • Analyze output from various security devices and malware and incident reports to improve detection of and to minimize future incidents • Assess and analyze system security to identify and mitigate risks and vulnerabilities • Recommend countermeasures to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities • Prepare/Update documentation, including incident reports, security recommendations, etc. • Assist in identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating the protection of critical cybersecurity infrastructure and key resources • Perform basic system design functions, including interpretive analyses, chart preparation and associated diagrams/enhancement plans • Test existing and new technologies • Review/analyze requested changes for equipment, technology and/or other factors/trends, which are planned for deployment in the customer space • Support the configuration and administration of cyber security tools and systems.
Required Skills: • U.S. Citizenship • Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance • Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability • 2+ years of applicable experience in cyber security • Experience with commercial cyber tools and technologies • Experience with standard security principles, policies, standards and industry best practices • Experience and knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, topology, sockets and security) and web technologies (Internet security) • Experience or knowledge of intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow and packet analysis • Understanding and ideally experience with Windows or Linux/Unix operating systems (LINUX is used primarily for this position) • Possesses or quickly develops an understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
Desired Skills: • Experience with Security Event Incident Management (SEIM), Log Correlation and Network Behavior Anomaly detection systems • Experience and/or familiarity with development languages such as: Java, Swing, JUnit, Perl, Python, HTML • Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with VMware and virtual machines • Ability to write custom tools and modify existing intrusion detection tools • Experience with Agile development methodology • Experience with automated testing tools • Experience with one or more of the following: o Security COTS integration o Security Incident Event Management o Insider Threat Monitoring o Operating System Hardening o Vulnerability Assessment testing o Identification and Authentication schemes o Public Key Infrastructure and Identity Management o Cross Domain Solutions o Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) o Computer Network Operations (CNO) o Malware Analysis o Reverse Software Engineering o Security engineering
Required Education: • Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security, Information Security, Software Engineering or a related discipline is required. [Four (4) years of experience (for a total of six (6) or more years) may be substituted for a degree.]"