Baseline Security Engineer

Agile Defense; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Short-term Disability

Long-term Disability

Retirement Plan

Learning and Development

Job summary

Agile Defense, Inc. is seeking a Baseline Security Engineer to support one of our clients in a remote capacity.

The role focuses on cybersecurity operations, compliance, and risk management to protect critical systems and support mission-focused objectives. The candidate will implement and maintain security controls, conduct assessments, and collaborate with technical teams to address vulnerabilities while ensuring adherence to NIST and CIS/STIG benchmarks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 5+ years supporting IT operations
• Experience creating security baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-series guidance for risk management and security control implementation, including 800-30, 800-37, 800-53, 800-60, 800-63, 800-115, 800-137
• Familiarity with NVD/CVE databases and vulnerability management processes
• Ability to translate security baseline requirements into high-level FISMA/NIST obligations and client-specific security controls
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination
• Capability to modify CIS/STIG benchmarks to meet organizational needs

Responsibilities

• Support implementation and maintenance of cybersecurity controls and compliance assessments
• Identify and mitigate risks and support audits and security reviews
• Maintain documentation and collaborate with technical teams to address vulnerabilities

Skills

Security baselines using CIS/STIG

NIST 800 guidance

Vulnerability databases (NVD) & CVE

Compliance assessments

Risk management

FISMA/NIST mapping to requirements

Public Trust / Suitability process

Security controls implementation

Documentation maintenance

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

OpenShift

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

About Agile Defense

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Requisition #: 1993

Job Title: Baseline Security Engineer

Location: Remote

Clearance Level: Public Trust

Job Description

SUMMARY

Agile Defense is hiring a Baseline Security Engineer to support one of our clients. We are seeking a motivated security professional with experience in cybersecurity operations, compliance, and risk management. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, helping to protect critical systems and support mission-focused objectives.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Baseline Security Engineer will support the implementation and maintenance of cybersecurity controls, conduct security and compliance assessments, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure systems meet established security requirements.

The role involves collaborating with technical teams to address vulnerabilities, supporting audits and security reviews, maintaining documentation, and helping protect client systems from evolving cyber threats.

Education and Background

• Bachelors Degree and 5+ years of experience providing support to Information Technology (IT) operations.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience providing support to Information Technology (IT) operations
• Experience creating security baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks
• Experience reviewing, developing, or customizing general security configuration baselines
• Knowledge of NIST 800 Special Publication series guidance for risk management and security control implementation, including 800-30,800-37, 800-53, 800-60, 800-63, 800-115, or 800-137
• Knowledge of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE)
• Ability to create security baselines from scratch using vendor documentation
• Ability to modify CIS and STIG benchmarks to meet organizational requirements
• Ability to translate low-level security baseline requirements into high-level FISMA and NIST requirements and client-specific security
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements

Preferred Skills

• Experience with networking, including Cisco, Juniper, or Palo Alto, operating systems, including Windows Server, Red Hat, or Linux, cloud services, including AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Okta, O365, or ServiceNow, or mobile technologies, including iOS or Xen Mobile
• Experience designing, building, and implementing automation tools, including Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, including CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with container platforms, including OpenShift
• Experience with chaos engineering and blue or green deployments
• Experience with serverless, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and SAM
• Experience with application performance analysis and monitoring, including ELK
• Experience with JSON or YMAL programming
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, CCNA, MSCE, RHCSA, EBSA, or ECSS Certification

$135,000 - $150,000 a year

In addition, Agile Defense invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Agile’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.

Our Core Values

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.

What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.

• Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
• Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
• Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication, and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
• Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
• Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
• Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities