Security Engineer Junior

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunhill Government Solutions is hiring a Security Engineer (Junior) to provide security engineering and sustainment support for a federal agency's cyber forensic enterprise network, across data center locations, transitional locations and cloud environments. This on-site role is based in Ashburn, VA.

Responsibilities include maintaining infrastructure, handling change requests, documenting procedures, managing vulnerabilities, and ensuring changes are approved by senior staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field is required or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in security engineering.
• On-site work in Ashburn, VA; no telework; core hours 8:30 AM–5:00 PM; on-call support.

Responsibilities

• Advise on and engineer the forensic network infrastructure throughout its lifecycle.
• Use change-request process to identify priorities, process tickets, and track progress.
• Document operating procedures and processes for security operations.

Skills

Security engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ticketing system

SIEM

Job description

Dunhill Government Solutions is hiring a Security Engineer (Junior) to provide security engineering and sustainment support for a federal agency's cyber forensic enterprise network, across existing data center locations, transitional locations and cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Advise on and help maintain and engineer the forensic network infrastructure, hardware and software, throughout its lifecycle
• Use the agency's change-request process and ticketing system to identify priorities and service requests, act on them, and track, update and close tickets
• Document all operating procedures and processes
• Support activities that affect security or availability: change management, configuration of critical equipment, and vulnerability management including patching
• Ensure every change is approved by senior engineering and IT security staff before execution
• Work across technology evaluation, security tool engineering and maintenance, analysis of alternatives, logging capabilities and requirements, data retention and storage, hardware lifecycle management, software maintenance and assurance, and configuration management

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in security engineering
• Ability to work on site in Ashburn, VA (no telework), core hours 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, with on-call support

Preferred:

Experience maintaining SIEM infrastructure and operating systems that collect and aggregate data sources such as IDS data from network sensors, collection agents, firewalls, proxy servers, DLP, antivirus and vulnerability scanners.

Compensation:

$90,000 - $119,000 per year

US Citizenship (no dual citizenship) and the ability to pass a federal background investigation in order to be granted access to sensitive information.