Cyber Security Engineer
Cyber Security Engineer
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SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
- Zero Trust engineering
- Assess, design and maintain the roadmap for security capabilities aligned to the DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture and Target-level activities across all seven pillars.
- Translate Zero Trust requirements into concrete configurations, segmentation rules and policies, and document how each control maps to the architecture.
- Evaluate, pilot and integrate new security technologies to close Zero Trust capability gaps.
- SIEM, telemetry and analytics
- Design, deploy and tune SIEM Security, including Agent policies, integrations, index lifecycle management, data tiers and cluster sizing.
- Engineer security data pipelines that collect, filter, enrich and normalize data to a Common Schema before it reaches the SIEM, controlling volume and cost.
- Develop, test and tune detection rules, dashboards and alerts mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, reducing false positives in partnership with the SOC.Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR)
- Design, deploy and maintain the SOAR platform and its integrations with the SIEM, endpoint, vulnerability, identity, network and ticketing systems.
- Build and test playbooks for alert triage, enrichment, containment (e.g., isolating hosts, disabling accounts) and case management, with human approval gates where required.
- Support the Automation and Orchestration pillar of the DoD Zero Trust strategy, including policy decision and enforcement integration.
- Endpoint security
- Engineer and harden enterprise endpoint protection and EDR platforms, including DoD-mandated endpoint security solutions, covering policy, host intrusion prevention and device control.
- Maintain agent health, deployment coverage and policy compliance across Windows and Linux endpoints, and forward endpoint telemetry into the SIEM.Vulnerability management
- Operate and optimize enterprise vulnerability scanning in line with DoD requirements (e.g., ACAS), including credentialed scan design, scan zones and reporting.
- Drive remediation by correlating findings with asset owners and patch status, tracking IAVM compliance and producing risk-based remediation priorities.
- Linux engineering and compliance
- Engineer, build and maintain the enterprise Linux server infrastructure, including standard hardened builds, identity integration, performance and availability, upgrades and lifecycle replacement
- Engineer Linux content lifecycle, patching and errata workflows to deliver timely, tested updates across environments.
- Automate STIG and SCAP compliance with configuration-as-code, and report compliance status to leadership.
- Compliance, risk and reporting
- Implement and validate STIGs and SRGs, and produce RMF artifacts, POA&Ms and evidence for assessments and inspections (e.g., CORA).Interact with vendors, other agencies and coalition partners on behalf of the program.
- Contribute to After Action Reports (AARs) and submit Weekly Activity Reports (WARs) in accordance with contract requirements.
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