812262 Cyber Security Engineer $255,000.00

B4Corp; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 230,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO 7 weeks

Flexible schedule

401k with match

Phantom stock

Employee referrals bonus

Job summary

B4Corp in Bethesda, MD is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer–Technical Lead SME to safeguard client enterprise information systems. This hands-on role blends deep engineering with technical leadership across a security team in a DevSecOps life cycle. Top Secret/S SCI with a polygraph is required.

The candidate will work with firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, SIEM (Splunk), and security audits to prevent breaches. The position emphasizes individual technical contributions alongside mentoring of junior

Qualifications

• Must have TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Experience designing and operating SIEM, IDS/IPS, and DPS tools.
• Hands-on security engineering in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, monitor, and upgrade security controls and tools.
• Configure firewalls, VPNs, and security platforms like Splunk.
• Lead security coordination across teams while performing hands-on tasks.
• Respond to security incidents and support remediation efforts.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat analysis

Team coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Splunk

HBSS/Trellix

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Labor Category: Cyber Security Engineer
Position Title: Cyber Security Engineer– Technical Lead
Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert
Salary: Up to $255,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Bethesda MD

Description

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

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. The candidate must display an 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. This is not a supervisory management role. Success in this position is measured by individual technical contribution and resolution of complex security issues, in addition to technical leadership impact.

Primary 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.

Details

Labor Category: Cyber Security Engineer
Position Title: Cyber Security Engineer– Technical Lead
Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert
Salary: Up to $255,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Bethesda MD

Mandatory Requirements

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)

• 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. (e.g., React), 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

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation

• Outstanding Salaries

Retirement

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary – Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus

• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

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