Cyber Security Engineer II

Date Posted:

2024-02-01

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

The Cybersecurity, Intelligence and Services (CIS) business 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. CIS brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets

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The Cyber Engineer designs, develops, documents, analyzes, tests, integrates, debugs, conducts research and/or discovers and analyzes security flaws or vulnerabilities in software, networks, systems, and applications. The Cyber Engineer ensures system security needs are established and maintained for various objects/matters.

Responsibilities:

Analyze output from various security devices and malware and incident reports to improve detection of and to minimize future incidents

Assess and analyze system security to identify and mitigate risks and vulnerabilities

Recommend countermeasures to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities

Prepare/Update documentation, including incident reports, security recommendations, etc.

Assist in identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating the protection of critical cybersecurity infrastructure and key resources

Perform basic system design functions, including interpretive analyses, chart preparation and associated diagrams/enhancement plans

Test existing and new technologies

Review/analyze requested changes for equipment, technology and/or other factors/trends, which are planned for deployment in the customer space

Support the configuration and administration of cyber security tools and systems.

Required Skills:

U.S. Citizenship

Must hold a Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

2+ years of applicable experience in cyber security

Experience with commercial cyber tools and technologies

Experience with standard security principles, policies, standards and industry best practices

Experience and knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, topology, sockets and security) and web technologies (Internet security)

Experience or knowledge of intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow and packet analysis

Understanding and ideally experience with Windows or Linux/Unix operating systems

Possesses or quickly develops an understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines

Desired Skills:

Experience with Security Event Incident Management (SEIM), Log Correlation and Network Behavior Anomaly detection systems

Experience and/or familiarity with development languages such as: Java, Swing, JUnit, Perl, Python, HTML

Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with VMware and virtual machines

Ability to write custom tools and modify existing intrusion detection tools

Experience with Agile development methodology

Experience with automated testing tools

Experience with one or more of the following:

Security COTS integration

Security Incident Event Management

Insider Threat Monitoring

Operating System Hardening

Vulnerability Assessment testing

Identification and Authentication schemes

Public Key Infrastructure and Identity Management

Cross Domain Solutions

Computer Network Exploitation (CNE)

Computer Network Operations (CNO)

Malware Analysis

Reverse Software Engineering

Security engineering

Required Education:

Two (2) or more years of cyber security experience required.

[A Master’s degree in a related discipline may substitute for two (2) years of experience]

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

[Four (4) years of experience (for a total of six (6) or more years) may be substituted for a degree.]

Desired Certifications:

DoD 8570.1-M Compliance at IAT Level I