Cyber Security Engineer

$165,000 - $225,000/Yr

Hoplite Solutions - Reston, VA

Full-time - Senior

Reston, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Hoplite Solutions is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer (SME) responsible for protecting customer information systems and networks from cyber-attacks. The role involves working closely with team leads, developers, and operations personnel throughout the DevSecOps lifecycle, focusing on both policy and technical implementation of security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade security measures and tools for the protection of information systems and networks.
• Automate repeatable tasks in a consultative role.
• Design, configure, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain all security platforms and their associated software.
• Formulate systems and methodologies to respond to security-related events and assist in remediation efforts of cyber security incidents.
• Participate in the change management process.
• Coordinate and monitor log analysis for managed services offerings to ensure customer policy and security requirements are met.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph.
• Master's degree with 15 or more years of prior relevant experience.
• Expert with at least one of the following tools: Splunk, HBSS/McAfee, Rapid7.
• Expert with implementing and managing SIEM (e.g., Splunk), end-point security (IDS/IPS and HBSS).
• Expert knowledge of networking protocols, such as TCP/IP, LAN/WAN concepts.
• Expert with automation (e.g., Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Strong attention to detail with analytical mind and outstanding problem-solving skills.
• Awareness of Cybersecurity trends and hacking techniques.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with additional security tools and processes such as IDS/IPS, VPN, Webinspect, Appdetective.
• Experience with implementing and managing Network and Application Firewalls.
• Experience with incident detection, incident response, and forensics activities.
• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Power Shell).
• Experience with Cloud Computing Technologies/Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with Agile Software Development.
• AWS Certification.
• Experience maintaining virtual private networks, firewalls, web protocols.
• Experience with SAFe Agile Framework.
• Knowledge of potential attack vectors such as XSS, injection, hijacking, and social engineering.
• Experience with health monitoring tools (Nagios, SolarWinds).

Benefits

• 7% employer 401k contribution
• Fully paid healthcare for employees
• Outstanding training benefits
• Company funded life insurance
• Short-term disability insurance