Senior Cyber Security Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.</p></div><p><strong><u>About GuidePoint Security</u></strong></p> <p>GuidePoint Security is a leading cybersecurity solutions and services firm enabling federal government organizations to make smarter security decisions that minimize risk. With more than 800 vetted technology vendor partnerships and deep practitioner expertise across every major cybersecurity domain, GuidePoint serves more than half of the U.S. Government’s cabinet-level agencies across Civilian, DoD, and Intelligence Community segments, as well as Federal System Integrators and major defense prime contractors. We are growing our federal presales engineering team and looking for technically exceptional engineers who thrive at the intersection of federal mission and cybersecurity technology.</p> <p>GuidePoint Security is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA. In this role, you will support mission-critical cybersecurity operations by designing, deploying, and maintaining secure, resilient data collection and monitoring solutions that enable informed decision-making across the enterprise.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities </strong></p> <ul> <li>Troubleshoot new and existing data collection issues to ensure accurate and reliable ingestion of security-relevant data.</li> <li>Diagnose and resolve system issues that impact stability, performance, or usability.</li> <li>Deploy, manage, and maintain supported and unsupported Splunk Add-ons required for specific data sources.</li> <li>Develop and maintain documentation, including Body of Evidence (BOE) artifacts, engineering documentation, change management records, system security plans, and accreditation materials, as required.</li> <li>Deliver a comprehensive Splunk deployment document detailing specifications, deployment methods, and architectural considerations for production environments.</li> <li>Implement and maintain strict role-based access control to ensure data is accessible on a validated need-to-know basis.</li> <li>Design and deploy Splunk forwarders using centralized configuration management through the Splunk Deployment Server to support rapid and consistent deployments.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Minimum Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>An active TS/SCI with Polygr