PLATFORM SECURITY ENGINEER

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Company: NorthHill Technology

Location: Mc Lean, VA 22101

Description:

NorthHill Technology Resources has an urgent need for Platform Security Engineer to support a Federal Program in Mclean, VA. This is a direct-hire role with our client, a leader in the Intelligence Community. Due to the nature of the work, a TS/SCI Clearance and current CI Polygraph is required.

Platform Security Engineer

If you enjoy working with new technologies, enterprise-leading equipment, and seek to secure and maintain compliance, we would like to speak to you. This position will play a key role in meeting critical compliance and security baselines of next-generation infrastructure to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. You will join a diverse team of platform engineers to design, deploy, maintain, and secure platform infrastructure. You will collaborate with people inside and outside the organization to deliver the highest standards for building, deploying, and securing infrastructure. The Platform Security Engineer is focused on automating security practices to ensure compliance of critical infrastructure. This includes traditional compliance and vulnerability scanning of switches, routers, firewalls, operating systems, applications, and platform components associated with OpenShift Container Platform (OCP). As a Platform Security Engineer, you are responsible for the detection and mitigation of security risks.

Key Job Responsibilities

Platform Security Engineers perform high quality security assessment of network and platform components, mitigate risks, develop security automation that meets industry best practices, assist with internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate security and compliance documentation.
Maintain high security and compliance standards through security automation
Deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes
Operate and trouble-shoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configuration issues; including low level application interaction, Linux systems, and next-gen networking software tools
Maintain security best practices across the infrastructure to ensure systems are fully compliant with government/industry standards and policies
Think Big, and innovate new security solutions that enable us to move faster and meet key security and compliance milestones
Work closely with the ISSO to ensure the roll-out of new designs and products meet compliance and security requirements, as well as assist with deployment and sustaining platform infrastructure and tooling
Proficient in either Python or Go programming language
Experience working with RESTful APIs to automate security assessments and mitigation processes
Experience with the Authority to Operate (ATO) process, NIST SP 800-53, Cyber Security and Risk Management Frameworks, Security Center, Nessus, Splunk
Knowledge in network topologies and architectures (VLAN, LAN, WAN)
Experience with automation frameworks, specifically Ansible, to write scripts and automate security processes
Ability to effectively communicate with team members, vendors, and customers to understand requirements and implement solutions
Proficient time management to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced networking environment

Clearance Requirements
Active TS/SCI clearance with Counterintelligence polygraph

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