Cybersecurity Engineer II

ELECTROSOFT; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Electrosoft Services, LLC is hiring a Cybersecurity Engineer II to perform engineering, integration, deployment, testing, configuration, and sustainment for customer SOC technologies. You will support interoperability between data sources, cybersecurity tools, and supporting infrastructure, and help develop detections, dashboards, scripts, and automation for secure, scalable operations.

The role emphasizes defense-in-depth, production readiness, and knowledge transfer, with emphasis on

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering or related field.
• Education substitution: 3 additional years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience deploying, configuring, and sustaining SOC technologies and related security analytics.

Responsibilities

• Support cybersecurity architecture, engineering, research, evaluation, prototyping, integration, deployment, and sustainment.
• Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Government-approved SOC technologies.
• Support integration and interoperability between SOC tools, platforms, sensors, applications, workflows, and data sources.
• Develop and maintain engineering documentation, test plans, diagrams, deployment records, and handoff documentation.
• Support Government change-control activities and ensure compliance.
• Develop and test detections, dashboards, scripts, analytics, interfaces, automation, and SOC capabilities.
• Tune sensors, rules, alerts, and analytics to improve detection quality and reduce false positives.
• Test and validate capabilities prior to operational deployment.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Education

Experience-based education alternative

Job description

Electrosoft Services, LLC is an award-winning company that provides comprehensive technology-based solutions and services to federal customers. While cybersecurity is our specialty, we also focus on ICAM, Zero Trust, digital engineering and transformation, and enterprise AI and intelligent automation. We always seek to delight our customers, so we retain highly qualified employees and offer them meaningful work, growth opportunities, and work-life balance. What sets us apart from all other contractors is the sense of teamwork our employees feel – and the knowledge that outstanding effort is recognized and rewarded. The camaraderie we share emanates from Lunch & Learn sessions where we explore new ideas together, fun group activities ranging from escape rooms to miniature golf, and much, much more. If we’ve described you and your dream workplace, please apply and share in the many benefits and opportunities we offer.

Cybersecurity Engineer II

The Cybersecurity Engineer II performs cybersecurity engineering, integration, deployment, testing, configuration, and sustainment activities supporting customer SOC technologies.

The position supports the engineering and deployment of SOC tools, sensors, platforms, enclaves, and supporting capabilities, including technology research, evaluation, prototyping, integration, deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting. The Engineer II supports interoperability between data sources, cybersecurity tools, applications, workflows, sensors, and supporting infrastructure.

The Engineer II also supports detection engineering and custom SOC capability development, including development, testing, tuning, maintenance, and documentation of analytics, detections, dashboards, scripts, interfaces, automation playbooks, and related capabilities. The position validates developed capabilities prior to operational use and documents configurations, dependencies, limitations, and sustainment considerations.

Responsibilities

• Support cybersecurity architecture, engineering, research, evaluation, prototyping, integration, deployment, and sustainment.
• Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Government-approved SOC technologies.
• Support technical integration and interoperability between SOC tools, platforms, sensors, applications, workflows, and data sources.
• Develop engineering documentation, configuration information, test plans, diagrams, deployment records, and handoff documentation.
• Support Government technical change-control activities.
• Develop and test detections, dashboards, scripts, analytics, interfaces, automation, and custom SOC capabilities.
• Tune sensors, rules, alerts, and analytics to improve detection quality and reduce false positives.
• Test and validate capabilities before operational deployment.
• Support knowledge transfer and technical documentation for Contractor-supported capabilities.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience: 3 years.
• Education substitution: 3 additional years of experience in lieu of degree.

The actual base salary offered will be determined based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant years and depth of experience, skills and qualifications, education, certifications, internal equity, and the specific requirements of the position. Candidates should not assume they will be offered the top of the posted range, as compensation is based on the individual qualifications and overall fit for the role.

Salary Range

$150,000 - $160,000 USD

Electrosoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file.

As set forth in Electrosoft’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.