Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

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