hiring a Mid-Level Cyber Security Engineer with an active Secret Clearance to join our Cyber Solutions Practice located in Leesburg, VA, on a newly awarded Security Operations Center contract. Qualified candidates should have experience working in a network security environment, such as a Security Operations Center (SOC), Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT), Computer Incident Response Center (CIRC) or Cyber Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC). This role offers excellent compensation, career growth potential, and a total rewards package that includes PTO, paid holidays and corporate events, continuing education reimbursements, 401K, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) through Tetra Tech, and more!
Responsibilities
The Mid-Level Cyber Security Engineer will:
- Provide ongoing security engineering support for all SOC Technologies
- Ensure thorough testing, engineering and development support to all SOC Technologies to eliminate single points of failure and leverage high availability capabilities
- Facilitate the smooth integration of all software, computing, and networking technologies within the SOC
- Support the KM Plan through review and/or contribution as needed to support security engineering tasks and activities
- Research new and emerging cybersecurity technologies offerings in the market to generate and maintain market research reports
- Establish methodologies to identify capability gaps within current SOC Technologies and processes. Present findings and recommendations to Management during quarterly PMR.
- Configure Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and other technologies to improve services and capabilities
Assist with system and database administration in support of customized ticketing system
Required Qualifications
- US Citizenship with an active Secret Clearance
- Minimum seven (7) years IT experience
- Qualified candidates must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience working in a SOC type operation for a government or commercial client
- BS Degree or additional work experience substitution
- Experience with Snort, and Cisco intrusion detection sensors.
- Experience with Host-Based and Network-Base IDS.
- Experience with Security Information Management Tools (ArcSight, Splunk, Sentinel, etc.)