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Cyber Security Engineer Jobs in Washington, District of Columbia, USA at InquisIT
Title: Cyber Security Engineer
Company: InquisIT
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Type: Full Time
Category: IT/Tech, Security
Inquis
IT is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to join us in Washington, DC.
This role will have responsibilities that encompass Security Operations and Engineer skill sets to help secure customer cloud computing, data center, and on-premise environments. The successful candidate will help set up, operate, and manage/maintain a variety of security solutions including vulnerability management, endpoint security, security information and event management, and governance/risk/compliance. The candidate will also help develop and maintain security policy and procedures, perform incident response and business continuity testing, work with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Benchmarks, and assist with security audits as needed.
At various times, production security operations tasks such as analysis of security issues and responding to security incidents will be required. The successful candidate should be a team player with adynamicpersonality that can work effectively with end users and management for resolution of security incidents.
This position is being offered as an onsite role with hybrid potential after probabtionary period.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
Ensures adherence to security standards
Acts as the point of contact responsible for the planning, development, test, and implementation of IT security controls
Maintains an understanding and documentation of system security baselines
Develops and executes information security plans and policies
Develop strategies and procedures to respond to, recover, and investigate security breach(es)
Develop or implement open-source/third-party tools to assist in detection,preventionand analysis of security threats
Installs, configures, and updates firewalls, data encryption, and other security products to facilitate a secure posture
Conduct periodic network scans to identify and remediate vulnerabilities
Monitor networks and systems for security breaches through the use of software that detects intrusions and anomalous system behavior
Penetration testing experience (burp suite)
Threat hunting experience (threat intelligence analysis), UBA
Experience and Qualifications
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9+ years of industry experience in an Information Security function with degree, 12+ years without degree
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Experience with Palo Alto (preferred) or Cisco firewall, network security appliance administration and cloud security
Experience with vulnerability scanners and management, preferably Tenable Nessus and Qualys, managing POAMs and Risk Acceptance Memos
Possess fundamental knowledge of Windows and Linux (RHEL) operating systems, and the ability to analyze network traffic and security events
Demonstrated experience with RMF, A&A, IV&V, and continuous monitoring
Demonstrated experience implementing and assess compliance with security baseline and controls (CIS Benchmark, DISA STIG, NIST 800-53)
Experience with Log aggregation/SIEM tools such as Splunk or similar
Ability to support and provide artifacts for annual audits and ATO review process (FISMA, FISCAM, etc)
Ability to maintainup-to-dateknowledge withmodernadversarial techniques and incident response procedures
Technical understanding of network operations, server architectures, storage solutions, and desktop hardware and software
Demonstrated ability to communicate in a clear, thorough, and timely manner using appropriate and effective tools and techniques with peers, supervisors, and member…
