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Security Engineer II
Washington, DC
Job Description
Agile Defense provides leading-edge Digital Transformation solutions to support and advance our customers' mission. We deliver innovative and high-quality services to our customers worldwide through an empowered and engaged workforce.
Job Title: Security Engineer II
Location: 45 L Street NE Washington, District of Columbia 20554
Clearance Level: Active DoD - Public Trust
Required Certification(s):
* CompTIA Security+ or CISSP is required (one or the other)
SUMMARY
The primary objective of the SOC is to protect the government agency's critical information infrastructure. To do this, the SOC must 1) Reduce Exposure to Cyber Risk; 2) Ensure Priority Response and Recovery to cyber threats/incidents; 3) Maintain Shared Situational Awareness of cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents; and 4) use trustworthy cyber protocols, products, services, configurations, and architectures.
Assessing and identifying gaps in the security stack and providing a gap mitigation roadmap and implementation plan, to include enhancing and tuning existing toolset to maximize investment and reduce redundancy; Reviewing IT security policies and providing technical solutions for enforcement when violations are identified in agency's security tools; Leading and/or collaborating with integrated project team members and other stakeholders on security engineering deployments and/or integrated projects to ensure timely project and task completion; Providing milestones and completion dates for projects to include resource allocation, testing of solutions and coordination with other teams when needed; Providing weekly updates of projects to include any concerns or issues with meeting milestones or completion dates;
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Develop Splunk alerts and validate Splunk content
* Develop Splunk dashboards
* Troubleshoot security stack appliance anomalies
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Certifications
* CompTIA Security+ or CISSP is required (one or the other)
Education, Background, and Years of Experience
* Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college and 5+ years experience in the field of cyber security with demonstrated experience in the following areas: implementation of information engineering projects; systems analysis, design and programming; systems planning; business information planning; and business analysis.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
Required Skills
* Splunk content development
* Provides technical knowledge and analysis of highly specialized applications and operational environments, high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation and implementation advice on problems that need knowledge of the subject matter for effective implementation.
* Participates as needed in all phases of development with emphasis on the planning, analysis, testing, integration, documentation, and presentation phases.
* Applies principles, methods and knowledge of application architecture, advanced mathematical principles and methods to technical problems to arrive at desired solutions.
Preferred Skills
* Strong Splunk content development
* Splunk Admin cert preferred
WORKING CONDITIONS
Environmental Conditions
* Contractor site with 0%-10% travel possible. Possible off-hours work to support releases and outages. General office environment. Work is generally sedentary in nature, but may require standing and walking for up to 10% of the time. The working environment is generally favorable. Lighting and temperature are adequate, and there are not hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc. Work is generally performed within an office environment, with standard office equipment available.
Strength Demands
* Light - 20 lbs. Maximum lifting with frequent lift/carry up to 10 lbs. A job is light if less lifting is involved but significant walking/standing is done or if done mostly sitting but requires push/pull on arm or leg controls.
Physical Requirements
* Stand or Sit; Walk; Repetitive Motion; Use Hands / Fingers to Handle or Feel; Stoop, Kneel, Crouch, or Crawl; See; Push or Pull; Climb (stairs, ladders) or Balance (ascend / descend, work atop, traverse).
Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together. We believe several attributes are the root of our very best employees and extraordinary culture. We have named these attributes "The 6 H's" - Happy, Helpful, Honest, Humble, Hungry, and Hustle.
Happy: We exhibit a positive outlook in order to create a positive environment.
Helpful: We assist each other and pull together as teammates to deliver.
Honest: We conduct our business with integrity.
Humble: We recognize that success is not achieved alone, that there is always more to learn, and that no task is below us.
Hungry: We desire to consistently improve.
Hustle: We work hard and get after it.
These Core Values are present in all our employees and our organization's aspects. Learn more about us and our culture by visiting us
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements
Agile Defense is subject to federal vaccine mandates or other customer/facility vaccination requirements as a federal contractor. As such, to protect its employees' health and safety and comply with customer requirements, Agile Defense may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR (c)
At Agile Defense, we know that our employees are our most important asset. We believe in our responsibility to our fellow employees, customers, company, and to our country. We promote teamwork, integrity, and creativity; we expect our fellow employees to also live these values.
Agile Defense, Inc. does not discriminate in practices or employment opportunities on the basis of an individual's race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other proscribed category set forth in federal or state regulations.
Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
5+ years
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