Staff Cyber Security Engineer

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Staff Cyber Security Engineeron a long term contract providing Cyber Security services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to provide security services and capabilities necessary to ensure IT services provided to the IC customer workforce are secure. This includes Identity and Access Control Infrastructure Operations Cross Domain Infrastructure Operations Cyber Security Infrastructure Operations Cyber Security Operations Information Technology (IT) Audit Infrastructure and Security Infrastructure Operations.

The right candidate will possess the belowskills and qualificationsand be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

• Maintains an infrastructure of over several hundred virtualized intrusion detection and network traffic analysis sensors located in multiple locations.
• Initiates and oversees the creation deployment and tuning of thousands of Snort and custom IPS/IDS signatures.
• Remotely manages Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers via UNIX shell VMWare ESXi and HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) and HP Onboard Administrators (OA).
• Makes recommendations to improve overall security posture to senior management.
• Creates and customizes ArcSight connectors to maintain the collection and redirection of syslog HBSS scanning and other appliance logs from enterprise networks to central manager.
• Troubleshoots physically cabled network connections network routing protocols media converters hardware and various vendor specific tools.
• Creates Linux BASH scripts to automate administrative tasks.

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with CI poly.

Degree and Years of Experience: Bachelors degree or 4 years of additional cyber experience in lieu of degree.

• 3 years of experience with modern Windows UNIX Linux network operating systems databases and virtual computing.

Required Certifications:

• DoD 8570 certification meeting IAT Level II ((GSEC Security SSCP or CCNA-Security)) required.
• CNDSP-A (GCIA GCIH or CEH) or CNDSP-IR (GCIH CSIH or CEH) certification required.

Required Skills:

• Experience performing analysis of network traffic and correlating diverse security logs to perform recommendations for signature development.
• Experience with enterprise security tools including Security information and event management (SIEM) Threat intelligence platforms (TIPs) or Network monitoring tools.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Splunk
• Knowledge with implementation of counter-measures or mitigating controls.
• Understanding of latest security principles techniques and protocols.

Physical Requirements:

• The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets office machinery or to communicate with co-workers management and customers via email phone and or virtual communication which may involve delivering presentations.

Abile Group Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients. We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients subject matter experience and Abiles breadth of expertise.

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