812262 Cyber Security Engineer $255,000.00

About the Role

Position Title: Cyber Security Engineer– Technical Lead

Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert

Location: Bethesda MD

Core Hours: 9am to 4pm

Salary: Up to $255,000.00 per year

This role is responsible for protecting the customer’s information systems and networks from potential cyber-attacks. The Cyber Security Engineer– Technical Lead SME will serve in a hands-on “player-coach” capacity, dedicating approximately 75% of time to direct technical engineering, troubleshooting, and implementation work, while providing technical leadership and coordination across the security team. Success in this position is measured by individual technical contribution and resolution of complex security issues, in addition to technical leadership impact. This is not a supervisory management role.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade security controls and tools used to protect enterprise systems and networks, while identifying opportunities to automate repeatable operations tasks.
• Design, configure, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain security technologies such as firewalls (security groups), endpoint protection tools (HBSS/Trellix), SIEM platforms (Splunk).
• 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 change management processes to ensure system changes maintain security compliance and do not introduce new vulnerabilities.
• Conduct routine vulnerability scanning and assessment activities, provide formal and informal reports to technical teams, and track remediation efforts to closure.
• Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise to the security engineering team while coordinating with peer Technical Leads across infrastructure and application domains to ensure alignment of architecture and security controls.
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex or cross-domain security issues while mentoring junior engineers through collaborative troubleshooting and hands-on technical guidance.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.
• Excellent understanding of technology and utilization of Firewalls (Security Groups), VPNs, Data Loss Prevention (DPS), IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, Security tools, and Security Audits.
• Candidate will work directly with Team leads, developers, operations personnel, and other Technical Leads throughout a DevSecOps life cycle both on policy and technical implementation of technologies.

Mandatory Requirements

• Experience implementing and managing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools such as Splunk or similar platforms.
• Experience working with endpoint and network security technologies, including IDS/IPS, HBSS/Trellix, and related defensive security tools.
• Expert with automation (e.g., Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Demonstrated history of personally implementing, troubleshooting, and maintaining security technologies in production environments.
• Proven ability to balance technical leadership responsibilities with significant hands-on engineering work.
• Strong attention to detail with analytical mind, outstanding problem-solving skills.
• Monitor security advisories, bulletins, and industry threat intelligence to stay informed of current vulnerabilities, threats, and trends.
• Requires BS degree and 16 or more years of prior relevant experience, or MS degree and 14 or more years of prior relevant experience.

Optional Requirements

• Experience with additional security tools and processes such as IDS/IPS, VPN, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube.
• Experience with implementing and managing network and application firewalls, virtual private networks, firewalls, web protocols, incident detection, incident response, and forensics activities.
• Experience with Agile software development processes/environments, scripting /programming languages such as Python or PowerShell.
• Experience with DevOpsSec pipelines and tools.
• Familiar with Cloud Computing Technologies and Services (AWS, Oracle, Google).
• Knowledge of potential attack vectors such as XSS, injection, hijacking and social engineering.
• Experience with health monitoring tools (SolarWinds) and using STIG viewers/tools to assess compliance with standards.
• Experience with database systems, search engines, web applications, Linux Red Hat environments, Windows environment.