Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Freedom Consulting Group is seeking multiple Cyber Security professionals for one of our contracts that offers exciting opportunities to support essential services and mission critical activities across the enterprise. Our mission is to support the Intelligence Community through numerous services including EVSS, HBSS, Cloud, SIEM, Network management, Incident Response, Threat Analyst, ELK, Development and IA. Come join our diverse and growing team with lots of opportunities! 

Responsibilities:

• Support the engineering, integration, and administration function required to deliver capabilities and services to the enterprise
• Perform tasks and complete customer requests using the ServiceNow delivery platform
• Resolve incident tickets issued through ServiceNow
• Responsible for supporting the build-out and testing of sophisticated Audit SIEM applications in a physical and virtual environment
• Perform various Linux systems administration tasks related to the operational system: backups, account management, and bash scripting to automate tasks
• Verification and validation that the segments are operating as desired, audit events are being processed, metrics generation, and ensuring that all required systematic audit events are being accomplished
• Operate and multitask in a dynamic high tempo environment 
• Perform the engineering, integration, and administration support required for successful delivery of capabilities and services to the operational baseline
• Perform change request (CR), service request (SR) and request for change (RFC) activities
• Responsible for configuring, installing, and hardening SIEM components and architecture
• Develop custom dashboards to support Enterprise Audit service
• Provide weekly quality of service and account metrics and develop PowerShell scripts to deliver onboarding metrics
• Tier 2 & 3 support to the customer to include troubleshooting and resolution of network and log parsing problems as they occur
• Configuration management to include IP Subnets assigned to Audit, develop and maintain current/future system diagrams and rack elevations, maintaining the configuration baseline for deployed servers, Maintaining and applying security related patches

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph 
• Must possess the required DoD Directive 8570.1 IAT Level II or higher certification or ability to obtain within 6 months
• Minimum Education: B.S. or relevant experience in related field
• Minimum/General Experience: 5-7 years of related experience
• Ability to learn and comprehend from the provided training in an individual contributor and team capacity
• Strong organizational, analytical, and troubleshooting skills with a high level of attention to detail are required to succeed in this diverse environment
• Should be able to demonstrate understanding and appropriate application of DoD policy and technical security guidance to information systems
• A solid understanding of Linux and Windows systems administration, general operating system security practices, TCP/IP networking, and network security concepts is required

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, preferable Splunk and ArcSight
• Experience with scripting preferably with Puppet, CHEF or other configuration management tools
• Experience with Linux, Windows Server and workstations, Red Hat and CentOS
• Cloud environment experience and/or certifications
• Experience with 3rd party tools such as SQLServer, Snare, MongoDB, SharePoint Admin, MariaDB, AWS.
• Experience with creating custom parsers to ingest unique metadata into a standardized log format
• Installing, configuring and hardening of VCenter, VMWare, Windows Server 2016 and Hyper V, LINUX OS, and ArcSight application (ArcMC, ESMs, Loggers, and Smart Connectors)
• Risk Management Framework knowledge and experience
• Certification and verification of IT architecture for compliance with security requirements
• Familiarization with other Enterprise security services Host Base Security Service, and Enterprise Vulnerability Scanning Service, and Enterprise Audit
• Ability to clearly articulate ideas for executive – level as well as technical staff consumption

What’s in It for You?Flexible work environmentA team mentality – work with friendly, like-minded professionalsWork with innovative, cutting edge technologiesEnjoy extremely competitive compensation and benefitsA work-life balance you can count onOpportunities to grow and advance your career on our dime
The Benefits You Get with FreedomAmazing benefits including matching 401k, fully paid medical, and moreGenerous paid time off – including paid site