Junior SIEM & UEBA Engineer - Federal Ops

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K matching

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays

3 weeks PTO

Job summary

Koniag Data Solutions, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a motivated Junior SIEM/UEBA Engineer to support cybersecurity operations for a federal government client. This role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a government background investigation and all requisite IT access authorizations prior to performing work.

Primary work will be performed at the client site in Washington DC with approved remote/telework locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in cybersecurity/CS/IT.
• Foundational SIEM and UEBA knowledge and eagerness to grow.
• Healthcare and enterprise IT security concepts familiarity helpful.

Responsibilities

• Assist with administration, onboarding, tuning, and optimization of enterprise SIEM and UEBA platforms.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and detections to support continuous monitoring and incident response.
• Support log source onboarding, data normalization, and alert triage under senior guidance.
• Contribute to compliance reporting and security operations documentation.

Skills

SIEM

UEBA

Log management

Event analysis

Incident response

Continuous learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

IBM QRadar

Elastic SIEM

Job description

Koniag Data Solutions, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a motivated Junior SIEM/UEBA Engineer to support cybersecurity operations for a federal government client. This role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a government background investigation and all requisite IT access authorizations prior to performing work.

Primary work will be performed at the client site in Washington DC with approved remote/telework locations.