DCO Engineer - TS/SCI (On site- Lompoc, CA)

We require a seasoned Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Engineer with a desire to actively defend the mission systems critical to our national defense.

As a senior engineer the candidate will work with other engineers to apply expertise on multiple complex work assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks.

Work you’ll do

• Operate with appreciable latitude in developing methodology and presenting solutions to problems.
• Contribute to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable.
• Consult on IT and cyber defensive architecture and technologies.
• Assess assigned cyber key terrain to thoroughly understand the mission, architecture and associated threat.
• Advise on technical design and implementation of DCO capabilities required to effectively protect, detect and respond to cyber threats and attacks.
• Research cyber defense technologies for best fit based on mission, architecture and current threat.
• Design, implement, configure and/or tune cyber defensive technology.
• Author documentation to include SOPs, checklists, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, crew binders, etc. to support DCO.
• Adapt technologies to meet the mission architecture and threat.

The Team

Deloitte’s Government and Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes—is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Defense & Resilience offering assists clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. Helps manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provides rapid crisis and cyber incident response, ensuring clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors Degree
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Must be able to work on site 100% of the time in Lompoc, CA
• Active TS/SCI security clearance required
• 1+ years experience using cyber reconnaissance to support a federal client
• 1+ years experience working with cloud infrastructure
• 1+ years experience utilizing software asset management
• 5 years of technical experience in cyber-defense or cyber security related fields (e.g., engineering, networking, systems integration, solutions etc.)

Preferred:

• 1+ years of prior professional services or federal consulting experience
• 7 years of professional technical experience in the fields below:
  • Experience years must come from at least 2 of the following areas:
    Container or virtual environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, AWS)
    In-band and out-of-band test access points for network traffic collection and aggregation (e.g. Gigamon)
    Linux operating systems (Red Hat, Kali, etc.)
• 1+ years of previous Security Operations Center experience
• 1+ years experience in mobile and endpoint security
• Certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CEH, CISSP)

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at