Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.
We are actively hiring a Cyber Security Engineer to join our Mission Technology Division working in Reston, VA.
This role is responsible for protecting information systems and networks from potential cyber-attacks. The Cyber Security Engineer must display an excellent understanding of technology and utilization of Firewalls (Security Groups), VPNs, Data Loss Prevention (DPS), IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, Security tools, and Security Audits. Candidates will work directly with Team leads, developers, and operations personnel throughout a DevSecOps life cycle both on policy and technical implementation of technologies.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade security measures and tools for the protections of information systems and networks and automate repeatable tasks in a consultative role.
- Design, configure, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain all security platforms and their associated software, such as firewalls (Security Groups), intrusion detection/intrusion prevention, anti-virus/malware (HBSS), cryptography systems (Vormetric), SIEM (Splunk), and MDM.
- Formulate systems and methodologies as well as respond to security related events and assist in remediation efforts of cyber security incidents (system and/or network breaches, malware attacks).
- Participate in the change management process.
- Coordinate, and monitor log analysis for our managed services offerings, to ensure customer policy and security requirements are met.
Basic Qualifications:
- Expert with at least one of the following tools: Splunk, HBSS/McAfee, Rapid7.
- Expert with implementing and managing SIEM (e.g., Splunk), end-point security (IDS/IPS and HBSS).
- Expert knowledge of networking protocols, such as TCP/IP, LAN/WAN concepts.
- Expert with automation (e.g., Ansible, CloudFormation).
- Strong attention to detail with analytical mind and outstanding problem-solving skills.
- Awareness of Cybersecurity trends and hacking techniques.
- Candidate should have a Master’s degree with 15 or more years of prior relevant experience to operate within the scope contemplated by the level.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with additional security tools and processes such as IDS/IPS, VPN, Webinspect, Appdetective.
- Experience with implementing and managing Network and Application Firewalls.
- Experience with incident detection, incident response, and forensics activities.
- Experience with scripting languages (Python, Power Shell).
- Experience with Cloud Computing Technologies/Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Experience with Agile Software Development, AWS Certification.
- Experience maintaining virtual private networks, firewalls, web protocols.
- Experience with SAFe Agile Framework.
- Knowledge of potential attack vectors such as XSS, injection, hijacking, and social engineering.
- Experience with health monitoring tools (Nagios, SolarWinds).
Candidates must possess a current TS/SCI security clearance w/Polygraph.
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action
ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law.
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