Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Engineer

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You Are:

The Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Engineer role will work in the CIRT team in the CISO organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work under the cybersecurity team lead to design, engineer and implement security initiatives.
• Work with the cybersecurity team to tune detections to raise security-relevant events to the triage and response team.
• Bridges the gap between network engineering and the cybersecurity team to advocate, create network security designs, implement security initiatives, expedite cybersecurity team access and more fully utilize security device capabilities and maintain security best practices.
• Conduct briefings to the cybersecurity team to support network design and architecture awareness to foster expertise and equip cybersecurity team investigations.
• Collaborate with operations teams and management to provide recommendations to increase the organizations security posture and ensure industry and government standard(s) compliance.

Here's What You Need:

• U.S. Citizen required
• High level of technical understanding
• Excellent communication skills, (written and oral), attention to detail and interpersonal skills
• Experience presenting complex technical information to decision makers and leading them through the decision-making process
• Work independently to deliver timely solutions without direct supervision
• 3+ years of experience in information security, or other equivalent combination of education or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ year(s) of experience performing event and log analysis including one or more of the following: Anti-Virus, Intrusion Detection Systems, Firewalls, Active Directory, Web Proxies, Data loss prevention tools and other security tools found in large enterprise network environments; along with experience working with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions.
• Familiarity with various network and host-based security applications and tools, such as network and host assessment/scanning tools, network and host-based intrusion detection systems, and other security software packages.
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP and common application layer protocols
• Packet & Malware Analysis
• Indicators of Attack and Compromise
• Detection Design & Engineering to Tune Signatures
• Windows / Linux Architecture
• Basic data parsing (Excel, grep, sed, awk, regex)
• Knowledge in project management, incident response lifecycles, network design and security, common cyber-attacks, and federal incident reporting requirements.

 

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