Mid Cybersecurity Engineer: SIEM, PenTesting & IR

Saliense; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO 20 days + 40 hrs sick time

Health/vision/dental/life insurance

401(k) with tiered match & vesting

Parental leave for birthing and non-b

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

Saliense is seeking a Security Engineer - Middle to conduct security assessments, penetration testing, and forensic IT tasks across client/server systems, databases, networks, and vehicle/appliance tech. The role requires solid SIEM expertise, incident response, and vulnerability management, with one day onsite in Arlington, VA.

Minimum 3 years in information security engineering and hands-on SIEM experience are required. Strong scripting (Python/Bash) and security testing skills are essential.

Qualifications

• In-depth, hands-on configuration and management of one or more SIEM tools.
• Log collection, normalization, and correlation from diverse sources.
• Event monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience with penetration testing and security assessments.
• Vulnerability and patch management.
• Automated and manual security testing techniques.
• Router and firewall management and troubleshooting.
• IDS/IPS
• Operating system security in Windows and Linux environments.
• Coordinating security incident response.
• Forensic IT functions to investigate breaches.
• Log analysis for security incidents.
• Enforcing security policies and guidelines.
• Regulatory compliance knowledge.
• Threat trend awareness.
• Researching new attack vectors.
• Scripting for automating security tasks.

Responsibilities

• Define, review, and enforce information security policy and guidelines.
• Identify IT security risks from technical and functional perspectives.
• Conduct technical security assessments as part of vulnerability and patch programs.
• Perform security assessments, audits, penetration testing and forensic IT tasks for clients.
• Coordinate log management, event collection, compliance automation, and identity monitoring.
• Analyze security data to drive corrective actions and monitor trends.
• Maintain awareness of security trends, respond to incidents, and educate users.
• Coordinate incident response and intrusion detection management.

Skills

SIEMTools

Penetration testing

Vulnerability mgmt

Incident response

Forensic IT

Log analysis

Threat knowledge

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Security automation

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or related

Tools

SIEM Tools

Job description

Saliense is seeking a Security Engineer - Middle to conduct security assessments, penetration testing, and forensic IT tasks across client/server systems, databases, networks, and vehicle/appliance tech. The role requires solid SIEM expertise, incident response, and vulnerability management, with one day onsite in Arlington, VA.

Minimum 3 years in information security engineering and hands-on SIEM experience are required. Strong scripting (Python/Bash) and security testing skills are essential.