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Principal Cyber Security/System Health Monitoring Tool Engineer Jobs in Reston – Virginia – USA at Taleo BE
Title: Principal Cyber Security/System Health Monitoring Tool Engineer
Company: Taleo BE
Location: Reston – Virginia – USA
Type: Full Time
Category: IT/Tech, Security
We have an IMMEDIATE NEED for a Principal Cyber Security / System Health Monitoring Tool Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining cyber security and system health monitoring devices for the customer’s information systems and networks protecting them from potential cyber-attacks. The Cyber Security Engineer must display an excellent understanding of technology and utilization of Firewalls (Security Groups), VPNs, Data LossPrevention(DPS), IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, Security Vulnerability, auditing and system health tools
Primary Responsibilities:
• Work directly with Team leads, developers and operations personnel throughout a Dev Sec Ops life cycle both on policy and technical implementation of technologies.
• Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade security measures and tools for the protections of information systems and networks and automate repeatable tasks in a consultative role (including mitigation of security scan findings)
• Design, configure, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain all security and health monitoring platforms and their associated software, such as firewalls (Security Groups), intrusion detection/intrusionprevention, anti-virus/malware (HBSS), SIEM (Splunk), Solarwinds, Nagios, native cloud services and MDM
• Formulate systems and methodologies as well as respond to security related events and assist in remediation efforts of cyber security incidents (system and/or network breaches, malware attacks)
• Participate in thechange managementprocess
• Generate Splunk dashboards to display Cyber Security and System health status alerts.
• Coordinate, and monitor log analysis for our managed security services offerings, to ensure customer policy and security requirements are met
Basic Qualifications:
• Must have a MS degree and 15+ years of prior relevant experience
• Experience with at least two of the following tools:
Splunk, HBSS/McAfee, Rapid7, Nagios, Solar Winds, CISCO IDS/IPS
• Knowledge of networking protocols, such as TCP/IP, LAN/WAN concepts
• Experience with maintaining systems on Linux and Windows platforms
• Experience with automation (e.g., Ansible, Cloud Formation)
• Strongattention to detailwith analytical mind outstandingproblem-solving skills
• Experience with Agile Software Development
** Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required.**
** Candidate must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with additional security tools and processes such as IDS/IPS, VPN, Web inspect, App detective
• Experience with implementing and managing Network and Application Firewalls /p>
• Experience with incident detection, incident response and forensics activities
• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Power Shell)
• Experience with Cloud Computing Technologies/Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Certification
• Experience maintaining virtual private networks, firewalls, web protocols
• Experience with SAFe Agile Framework
• Knowledge of potential attack vectors such as XSS, injection, hijacking and social engineerin
Pay Range:
Pay Range $ – $
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