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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
•22 days ago
| Estimated Pay | $53 per hour |
|---|---|
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
| Location | Reston, Virginia |
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Job Description
Job Description
Your work in cybersecurity will have an impact on securing our clients' missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow. As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor day-to-day operations of the sensors (Suricata, Palo Alto, and ArcSight) located at supporting customer's locations
- Perform Enterprise Defense Countermeasure (DC) activities and coordination with other government agencies to record and prepare incident reports and analysis methodology and results
- Monitor and analyze signature alerts from Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for false positives
- Provide technical enforcement of organizational security policies
- Provide "tune-or-drop" recommendations towards the DC team's Signature Lifecycle Review procedure
- Provide insight to Detection and Response teams on signature functionality and providing signature tuning as needed
- Communicate with customers and teammates clearly and concisely
- Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned
- Participate in special projects as required
- Position is day shift but may require evening, weekend or shift-work (depending on operational tempo)
Preferred Skills:
- Experience authoring Snort signatures
- Experience authoring Yara rules
- Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)
- Experience in intrusion detection and prevention systems
- Proficient in network security technologies and protocols
- Dashboarding in Splunk
- Palo Alto Certification Next-Generation Firewall
Requirements:
- Active TS clearance w/ SCI eligibility
- Ability to obtain CI poly
- DoD 8570 IAT II AND CSSP Infrastructure Support certifications
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