Hybrid Network Security Engineer – Secret Clearance Preferred

at Reston Consulting Group, Inc.

• Job title: Network Security Engineer – Secret Clearance Preferred
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Firewalls, Linux, Splunk, Unix
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Washington, United States

About the role

• Network Security Engineer developing security solutions for federal clients. Collaborating with teams to maintain security infrastructure and respond to incidents in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide real time monitoring and situational awareness of security events and first tier incident response and escalation to the ESOC per incident response policy and procedures.
• Manage and maintain a domain of OS related tools. Tasks include user management, Windows/Linux patching and updates, Database management, Tenable Security Center, Cloudflare, etc.
• Deploy, maintain, and enhance existing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capability and services to support active blocking of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) according to OS policy.
• Manage and monitor organization web application activities and enforce Web Security best practices.
• Design, manage and work with various security vendors and stakeholders to implement security infrastructure, including firewalls, antivirus solutions, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and other security appliances and software.
• Conduct regular vulnerability scans, assessments of supported systems and collaborate with the ISSO and vendors to remediate identified vulnerabilities.
• Perform end user device threat containment and access control enforcing security policies and restrictions using network security technology.
• Evaluate and deploy security tools and technologies to enhance security posture.
• Maintain enterprise dashboards to provide situational awareness of cyber threats, events, and incidents to enable priority-based resourcing decisions.
• Experience with CRIBL and collaborate with stakeholders to forward log data from firewalls, packet capture, web proxy services, network flow analysis, intrusion detection, and malware analysis tools to ESOC.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in information technology or related field.
• Minimal of 5 years of experience in the development and maintenance of security posture and incident response.
• Must have the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance (active Secret clearance preferred)
• Experience in the following Security Technologies: Sentinel One, Splunk, Endpoint Management, Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Patch Management (Windows and Unix), EDR (Endpoint detection and response), Web Security / Web Content Filtering, Vulnerability Scanning and Assessment Tools, Firewall and VPN, Secure Email and Email Filtering, Synack
• Fluent in the English language, ability to problem solve with a sense of urgency, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Certifications: Security +, ITILv4.

Benefits

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• RCG, Inc. does not discriminate against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, or national origin.