Linux Security Engineer

Akkodis; Leesburg (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

PTO/Paid Holidays

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking a Linux Security Engineer for a direct-hire role located in Leesburg, VA (Onsite). The position pays $150,000 - $170,000 per year plus benefits and requires hands-on security monitoring, SIEM integration, and log analytics expertise.

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining detection systems, tuning alerts, deploying EDR platforms, and building OpenSearch/Elastic dashboards to visualize security telemetry. This role offers full-time onsite work with standard benefits.

Qualifications

• Security monitoring design and deployment experience.
• Experience configuring alerting rules and correlation logic.
• Familiarity with log collection, parsing, and normalization workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security monitoring and detection systems.
• Develop and tune alerting rules, correlation logic, and anomaly detection models.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize Wazuh and similar EDR platforms.
• Integrate diverse log sources into SIEM platforms and ensure data quality.
• Build and enhance log aggregation pipelines (collection, parsing, normalization).
• Perform log analysis and investigate events to validate detections.
• Analyze NetFlow data and incorporate into detection strategy.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve security telemetry.
• Design and build dashboards and visualizations (OpenSearch/Elastic).
• Document logging architecture, detection logic, platform configurations, and procedures.

Skills

Security monitoring

Log analysis

NetFlow analysis

Dashboards

Telemetry integration

Tools

Wazuh

OpenSearch/Elastic

Job description

Akkodis is seeking a Linux Security Engineer fora direct-hire position with a client located in Leesburg, VA (Onsite).

Salary Range: $150K - $170K/Annum + Benefits; Salary may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Title: Linux Security Engineer

Location: Leesburg, VA (Onsite)

Type: Full Time

• Design, implement, and maintain security monitoring and detection systems
• Develop and tune: Alerting rules, Correlation logic, Anomaly detection models
• Deploy, manage, and optimize Wazuh (or similar EDR platforms)
• Integrate diverse log sources into SIEM platforms and ensure data quality
• Build and enhance log aggregation pipelines (collection, parsing, normalization)
• Perform log analysis and event investigation to validate and improve detections
• Analyze network flow (NetFlow) data and incorporate into detection strategy
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure high-quality security telemetry
• Design and build dashboards and visualizations (OpenSearch/Elastic)
• Document: Logging architecture, Detection logic, Platform configurations, Operational procedures

Benefits include but are not limited to:

401K

PTO/Paid Holidays

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