Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Overview

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Melbourne, FL

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer's core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

Astraeus Operations (AO) is an SBA-certified 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business (SBD) subsidiary of the Chenega Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC). We are a small business with large business capabilities due to our shared-services Program Management Office (PMO) structure. Through our ISO 9001:2015 certification, we can accomplish the full range of contract services including financial, human capital, recruiting, procurement, security, and technical resources to achieve contract mission requirements. As a result, our 'small business - big capability' dynamic benefits our clients through consistent communications and straight-lined workflows, ensuring our accountability to our clients for successful mission fulfillment.

In plain terms, our clients gain a team that's on the same page to achieve and support the client's mission. We vigorously respond to clients' requests without additional costs, delays, or inefficiencies that are often experienced with larger, more cumbersome organizations. AO is eligible for sole source, direct awards up to $100M for DOD and up to $25M for other federal agencies, without J&A. Astraeus is the easy button for a client wishing to take advantage of the rapid, agile, and flexible sole source procurement option. Combined with the shared PMO services, Astraeus offers highly competitive labor rates to fulfill day-to-day contract operations.

The Senior Cyber Security Engineer will be part of a dynamic team that provides IT support, maintenance, operations, logistics, and engineering services to help ensure the secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of INL/A Management Information Systems. This role will provide cyber security support to the Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics, and Law Enforcement Affairs Office of Aviation (INL/A) in support of their missions to sustain the national security and economic interests of our nation.

Responsibilities

• Analyze the security of hardware (SoC, MCU, etc.) and low-level operating system components of consumer devices.
• Provide systems security support for the protection of information system assets.
• Implement technology that supports network defense, vulnerability management, and incident response based on our client's unique mission needs.
• Assess and review risks and work with product engineers to create mitigations.
• Develop and execute policies, standards, and procedures.
• Develop and deliver security training, promote awareness, and educate product engineers on technology.
• Research on the latest standard methodologies, trends, threats and vulnerabilities, and technology frameworks
• Splunk subject matter expert, responsible for engineering and maintenance of multiple clustered instances
• Implement and maintain security stack components, such as IDS/IPS, firewalls, SIEM, and host-based security systems.
• Mature the existing Splunk instances to support robust incident detection and insider threat programs.
• Build system configuration baselines that leverage the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) for both Windows and UNIX/LINUX operating systems.
• Engineer event log correlation solutions to support effective customer response to security incidents.
• Conduct incident response actions based on detected events and incidents.
• Validate and develop cyber security requirements.
• Develop cyber security engineering solutions for various aspects of security.
• Work with stakeholders in functional and technical areas in support of engineering tasks
• Provide customers with reports and other informational products.
• Travel may be required for special projects. (CONUS, OCONUS)
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree OR
• Associate degree with 2+ years relevant experience.
• 4+ years relevant experience.
  • CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, or SSCP certification is highly desired.
• Secret clearance required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience building and maintaining Splunk instances in a DoD-specific environment.
• Experience using Splunk or other SIEM to correlate events and identify possible security events and incidents; must then be able to track down the root cause of these events and work with the CIRT team to conduct incident response actions.
• Proficiency in both UNIX/LINUX and Windows system administration and configuration.
• Proficiency in networking technologies and principles: routing, switching, and subnetting.
• Familiarity with deployments to and implementation of security functions in virtualized environments (VMware & Hyper-V)
• Familiarity with Windows, UNIX/LINUX, and applications logs, such as database and web server logs
• Experience implementing and auditing DISA STIG hardening configurations.
• Working knowledge of database and operating system security.
• Understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols.
• Ability to function in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage multiple tasks simultaneously, coordinating resources and ensuring scheduled goals are met.

How you'll grow

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there's always room to learn.

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.

Benefits

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.

Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.

Chenega MIOS's culture

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.

Corporate citizenship

Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.

Learn more about Chenega's impact on the world.

Chenega MIOS News- https://chenegamios.com/news/

Tips from your Talent Acquisition Team

We want job seekers exploring opportunities at Chenega MIOS to feel prepared and confident. To help you with your research, we suggest you review the following links:

Chenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com

Glassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Chenega-MIOS-EI_IE369514.11,23.htm

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/1472684/

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