Senior AWS Cloud Security Engineer — On‑Site TS/SCI

ADVANTAGE ENGINEERING & IT SOLUTIONS, INC; Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with employer contribution

Five weeks annual leave

Holidays (11)

Education/training allowance up to $5,

Life Insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

CareFirst medical plan contribution

Performance bonuses

Job summary

ADVANTAGE ENGINEERING & IT SOLUTIONS, INC seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Systems Security Engineer to design and secure NSANet AWS infrastructure at on-site Annapolis Junction, MD.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and hands-on experience with EDR/XDR/NDR, kernel integrity monitoring, and vulnerability management. You will lead SOC operations, develop detection signatures, and create dashboards and data pipelines for security sensors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 20 years experience in cloud operations and security; OR HS with 25 years of experience.
• Five (5) most recent years cloud experience must be with AWS in the national security (IC) environment.
• Active Top Secret SCI clearance with appropriate polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, integrate and manage security sensor platforms: EDR, XDR, NDR.
• Implement and manage kernel integrity monitoring software onto all endpoints.
• Write detection endpoint and network signatures.
• Operate as the lead Security Operations Center analyst to monitor for threats to the system.
• Monitor for threats.
• Develop reports on any identified threats.
• Develop visibility dashboards and custom data ingest pipelines in the SIEM for each security sensor platform.
• Develop custom pipelines for data from the security sensor platform.
• Develop microsegmentation rules within VMware NSX-T for secure communications across the enterprise.
• Implement security validation platforms to test all Security Sensors.
• Administer endpoints running Red Hat and Ubuntu images.

Skills

Security sensors

Kernel integrity

Threat detection

SOC leadership

Threat monitoring

Threat reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

High School diploma

Tools

Tenable Security Center

VMware NSX-T

Red Hat

Ubuntu

Job description

ADVANTAGE ENGINEERING & IT SOLUTIONS, INC seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Systems Security Engineer to design and secure NSANet AWS infrastructure at on-site Annapolis Junction, MD.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and hands-on experience with EDR/XDR/NDR, kernel integrity monitoring, and vulnerability management. You will lead SOC operations, develop detection signatures, and create dashboards and data pipelines for security sensors.