Sr. CyberSecurity Tools Engineer

Date Posted:

2024-11-05

Country:

United States of America

Location:

VA543: 22270 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22270 Pacific Boulevard Building CC5, Sterling, VA, 20166-6924 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

You have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, which provides us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Nightwing is seeking a Senior Information Systems Security Engineer, (ISSE) for a highly visible and strategic Cybersecurity Task Order. The Sr. ISSE will be part of an engineering enablement team responsible for capturing and engineering and refining information security requirements and ensuring their integration and evolution into the enterprise.  Focused on various security tools the Sr. ISSE will require broad knowledge across multiple security tools to include but not limited to Firewalls, Proxy and SSL decryptors, Identity and Access Management/Privilege Access Management, enterprise endpoint protection, CDM components and reporting, Data loss protection, email protection, SIEM and Log Management, and Security Risk Management. The Sr. ISSE will be required to interact with development teams, Security Architects, and senior management, as necessary to evolve, plan, and deploy tools/capabilities into the Enterprise.

Responsibilities Include:

Performing assessments of tools and identify where those resources deviate from acceptable configurations or policies

Technical management, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting, of enterprise-wide cyber tools ensuring that any issues that may adversely impact their capabilities are identified, properly mitigated, and promptly resolved

Lead efforts to prevent adversary network threats, identify advanced attack vectors and thwart methods of exploitation

Working closely with agile capability development teams serving as the principal technical advisor and subject matter expert as the Lead Cybersecurity Tools Engineer

Overseeing engineering, design, develop, direct, and implement enterprise network cyber defense capabilities to prevent sophisticated cyber threats and vulnerabilities from affecting the core enterprise

As the Lead Cyber Tools Engineer, you will implement security measures that protect the client enterprise while maintaining knowledge of the lifecycle of the emerging threats, attack vectors and methods of adversary exploitation

Leading a team in maintaining proficiency and specialized knowledge in computer network theory and understand IT standards and cybersecurity Tools including the OSI model, and the methods of exploiting those standards

Required Skills:

U.S. Citizenship

Active Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

Must have eight (8+) or more years of directly relevant cyber security experience

Knowledge of the tools and capabilities below with Expert engineering and operating knowledge of at least 3 of the examples listed below:

Firewall configuration (Cloud and on premise)

Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems configuration and maintenance

Proxy, (Web Application Proxies

SSL decryptors

Identity and Access Management/Privilege Access Management,

Enterprise endpoint protection,

CDM components and reporting

Data loss protection

Email protection 

SIEM and Log Management

Security Risk Management, (Scanning, Assessment and Mitigation)

Cloud Security Guardrails

Desired Skills:

Information Security and IT certifications:  Cisco, Red Hat, AWS, etc.

Experience administering cyber security tools such as Firewalls, SIEM, and PCAP

Experience with security log analysis.

Experience working on a Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT)

Previous experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC)

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security, Information Security, Software Engineering or a related discipline is