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Job Summary:
The Computer Merchant, LTD (TCM) is seeking an AntiVirus Engineer to support the SEC ISS contract by leading enterprise anti-virus operations. This role involves managing deployment, configuration, and policy administration of anti-virus solutions to ensure endpoint protection across the agency's workstations and servers.
Responsibilities:
• Manage and lead day-to-day deployment and configuration of enterprise anti-virus software across required SEC workstations and servers.
• Administer centrally managed anti-virus policies, exceptions, and protection settings through enterprise management servers/consoles.
• Manage anti-virus signature/DAT and engine updates to maintain current protection coverage across the endpoint fleet.
• Execute and validate scheduled anti-virus scans, update tasks, and protection health checks.
• Operate and optimize centralized anti-virus management platforms (e.g., enterprise policy orchestration tools) to enforce standardized controls.
• Coordinate anti-virus configurations with endpoint management processes, baseline images, and software deployment standards.
• Support pre-production testing and controlled rollout of anti-virus policy or agent changes to reduce operational risk.
• Maintain and update SOPs, runbooks, and configuration baselines for endpoint protection operations.
• Troubleshoot complex anti-virus and malware-related issues requiring senior-level escalation support and subject matter expertise.
• Perform incident triage, technical analysis, and root-cause identification for endpoint protection failures or infections.
• Coordinate with SEC support teams and stakeholders to restore services quickly and prevent repeat incidents.
• Document actions, status, and resolution details in approved ticket/workflow systems in alignment with ISS support processes.
• Support vulnerability identification, tracking, and remediation activities related to endpoint protection controls and findings.
• Monitor anti-virus operational metrics (coverage, update compliance, scan status, incident trends) and provide regular reporting.
• Ensure endpoint protection operations align with SEC security policies, change control requirements, and audit readiness expectations.
• Contribute to zero-trust and continuous-improvement efforts by recommending automation and control enhancements for endpoint security operations.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Citizenship/Work Authorization: Must meet contract requirements.
• Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required).
• Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering).
• Minimum 8 years of experience, including 7-10 years of related experience managing and leading support of enterprise anti-virus software solutions.
• Demonstrated experience using centralized anti-virus management platforms (e.g., enterprise policy orchestration tools).
• Experience deploying, configuring, and sustaining anti-virus controls for both workstation and server operating environments.
• Enterprise anti-virus administration for workstation and server endpoints
• Centralized policy/orchestration management consoles
• Signature/DAT and engine update lifecycle management
• Malware scanning operations, scheduling, and health validation
• Escalated incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
Preferred:
• Prior experience supporting a federal civilian agency IT contract with FISMA-driven security and audit requirements.
• Hands-on experience integrating endpoint protection operations with Microsoft Intune or comparable endpoint management platforms.
• Experience implementing endpoint controls aligned to zero-trust security objectives.
• Experience with ServiceNow-based ticketing, escalation workflows, and SLA performance reporting.
• Experience managing endpoint POA&M remediation and response to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) timelines.
• CompTIA Security+
• Trellix/McAfee ePO certification
• Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)
Company:
The Computer Merchant, LTD®, (TCM) is a nationally recognized Information Technology & Software Engineering staffing and services firm. Founded in 1980, the company is headquartered in Norwell, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.