IT Cybersecurity Engineer

Job Title: IT Cybersecurity Engineer
Clearance Required: Public Trust
Work Location: Remote 

Alpha Omega is seeking a qualified Cybersecurity Engineer to support our client’s Security Operations Incident Response Team (SecOps IRT) in the performance of security programs tasks and day-to-day operations, as required. The Cybersecurity Engineer will provide vulnerability analysis and hands-on security support for various public-facing systems. Additionally, they shall assist in the development and maintenance of security documentation in support of maintaining the authorization of OCIO systems. Will work with ServiceNow building dashboards and widgets.  Must possess strong VDA knowledge. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Incident Response Management
  • Manage all Incident Response tickets to include the development, updates, and closure of tickets.  This position will only focus on the security incidents reported into Enterprise Application EBS Incident Response (IR) portal. The Cybersecurity Engineer will respond to the incidents following a pre-defined Service Level Agreement (SLA), conduct log investigations, escalate incidents as needed, and complete the after-action reports to ensure all incidents are resolved timely. The Contractor will create incident detection dashboards in Department SIEM and help SecOps develop, update, and maintain SecOps IR processes. In CY’23, Incident Response received 220 incidents. Out of the 220, 116 were security incidents that the incident response team actioned and resolved.
• Detection and Analysis
  • Analyses incidents/events to validate their legitimacy and assess the impact on government systems using detection (such as Trellix) or SIEM tools (such as Splunk). In the event of a security incident, provide guidance and support during the incident response process. Assist in identifying and investigating the incident, analysing log data for forensic purposes, and conducting investigations to determine the root cause and extent of the incident. The Cybersecurity Engineer shall determine risk assessments, threat trends, and follow the general performance of the IR Plan’s execution.          
• Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
  • The Cybersecurity Engineer shall communicate and collaborate with stakeholders (ISSOs and System Owners/ System Admin/ Program Managers) on open tickets to track progress and ensure necessary action items are achieved to meet incident closure requirements.
• Incident Response and Mitigation Coordination
  • The Cybersecurity Engineer shall liaison with relevant system owners and technical teams to inform, notify, and generally monitor and assist in the mitigation process.   The contractor shall verify through Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) that vulnerabilities have been mitigated.
• Reporting
  • The Cybersecurity Engineer shall coordinate the completion of the IR after-action report (AAR) after every incident. They shall maintain detailed records of all incidents, actions taken, and outcomes. Records should include trend analysis, response effectiveness, and recommendations for program maturation. Will need to produce Executive Summaries
• Technical Expertise
  • The Cybersecurity Engineer shall demonstrate extensive knowledge in current and emerging cybersecurity threats, and incident response.  This involves staying updated on emerging threats, security trends, and industry best practices to accurately validate, categorize submissions and make recommendations to mature the program. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Experience/Skills:
• 5+ years’ experience working in a SOC and can support VDP and VM tasks
• Experience creating VDP workflows
• Strong experience with ServiceNow Incident Response Module creating dashboards and widgets
• Bug Cloud experience
• Understand types of attacks and web application exploitations
• Experience building incident response plans and playbooks
• Tool agnostic, ability to operate in various SIEM tools and can provide recommendations on how to improve IR
• Splunk – ability to build reports and dashboards
• Dashboard development - Able to support the development of an incident review board
• Log Management skills to be able to help them develop a process and to receive access to logs and log consolidation
• Forensics Skills and can assist in identifying and investigating incidents and analyzing logs
• Incident Response will be on-ca