Cyber Security Engineer

Job Title: Cyber Security Engineer

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: None

Type of Travel: None

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The Opportunity:
CACI's Corporate Enterprise Services Cyber Security Team is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer.  As a member of the Cyber Security Team, you will work to create and maintain a DFARS compliant operating environment for CACI’s users by protecting network boundaries, designing and supporting hardened computer, network devices, cloud services, and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data for our endpoints, servers, and OT/IoT.
The candidate will work directly with our Cyber Security team to support all major activities with a cyber security focus. Additional responsibilities include technical risk assessment, testing and validation of remediation for vulnerabilities, and compliance guidance for our networking environments. Candidate will support governance of appropriate policy and compliance technology to meet or exceed applicable government and compliance.



Responsibilities:

• Provide robust cybersecurity related guidance for supported CACI networks and supporting infrastructure inclusive of Software Defined Networking (SDN), Wireless, Layer-2 and Layer-3 IP networks hardware, and OT/IoT

• Work with programs to assess the security risk and compliance levels of their system(s)

• Research trends in cybersecurity threats as well as NIST 800 standards in support of these systems

• Creation of mitigation strategies and follow up with stakeholders to ensure risk levels are documented at the appropriate levels and follow through with report writing as appropriate

• Use knowledge of networking technologies to maintain a 0-trust environment throughout CACI

• Use data aggregation and analysis techniques and tools to provide valuable insight into the security posture of CACI’s infrastructure

• Work within CACI and third parties to ensure that all networking technologies are engineered and deployed with security in mind by following industry best practices and are compliant within applicable guidelines.

General Responsibilities:

• Ability to work in a team-centric environment

• Experience drafting technical requirements, procedure outlines and network diagrams to enhance system security documentation
  

• Analyze security reports, review process documentation, assess test results and remediation plans

• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders at all business levels

• Strong presentation, written, and oral communication skills

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 5 years’ experience with Cyber security

• Strong Cyber Security background

• Ability to obtain a security clearance

• Knowledge of major Cloud Service Providers and their implementations

• Knowledge of current and next generation IT technologies

• Strong problem solving and organizational skills

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Desired:

• DoD experience

• Expertise in ML, GenAI, and LLMs

• Relevant certifications (CYSA+, CISSP, CEH, Security+, etc.)

• Active Secret or Top-Secret clearance

• Experience with cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance

• Strong teamwork and independent work capabilities

• Effective collaboration with stakeholders at all levels

• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills

• Experience with risk management frameworks (DFARS 800-171, CMMC, ISO, NIST)

Intermediate knowledge in at least three of the following:

• SDN concepts

• NIST 800 series

• Risk management and mitigation strategies

• Security tool implementation, automation, and frameworks

• Cloud architecture and SaaS environments

• Multifactor authentication, identity, and privileged access management solutions

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What You Can Expect:

 A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be pa