Senior Cloud Security & Network Engineering Specialist

Scientific Research Corporation; North Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Scientific Research Corporation is seeking a highly skilled cyber security engineer to provide hands-on support for secure AWS environments, enterprise networks, and mission-owner integrations. The role involves remediation, incident handling, and maintaining runbooks and documentation.

You will contribute to monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and continuous compliance while supporting a secure lab environment and cross-functional teams in Charleston, SC and nearby facilities.

Qualifications

• BS degree as listed in education requirement.
• 10 years of experience in relevant technical field including design definition, systems analysis, and integration.
• Experience with cloud automation and IaC tools including Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Lambda, Python, and JSON.
• Experience supporting AWS networking including VPC, routing, security groups, DNS, load balancing, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience with RMF, STIGs, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring and cyber security compliance.
• Experience developing technical docs, network diagrams, baselines, runbooks, remediation plans, and reports.
• Ability to identify network and cyber risks, assess impact, and track remediation to closure.
• AWS experience and a current CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Five years of cyber engineering or related experience.
• Desire to work in a secure lab environment and be a team player.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on cyber security support for secure AWS services, enterprise network components, platform ops, and service-restoration efforts.
• Maintain network diagrams, runbooks, knowledge articles, and technical procedures.
• Support cyber security monitoring, vulnerability remediation, security-control validation, incident handling, and operational continuity.
• Provide operations and customer support for OS maintenance, VPC configuration, cloud automation tools, AWS, Cisco routers, F5 devices, Palo Alto, AD/ IAM, MFA, IDS/IPS, ACAS, Defender, WSUS, OCSP, and GitLab CI/CD connectivity.
• Provide cloud and network logging, monitoring, alerting, incident response, remediation, configuration management, and continuous compliance.

Skills

AWS networking

RMF/ STIGs

Vulnerability management

Continuous monitoring

Cyber security compliance

Technical documentation

Risk assessment

Team player

Education

BS degree in engineering, physical science, physics, network security, or computer science

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

CloudFormation

Lambda

Python

JSON

GitLab

ACAS

Microsoft Defender

WSUS

OCSP

AD/IAM

Cisco routers

F5 devices

Palo Alto

Job description

Scientific Research Corporation is seeking a highly skilled cyber security engineer to provide hands-on support for secure AWS environments, enterprise networks, and mission-owner integrations. The role involves remediation, incident handling, and maintaining runbooks and documentation.

You will contribute to monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and continuous compliance while supporting a secure lab environment and cross-functional teams in Charleston, SC and nearby facilities.