Cyber Security Engineer (High Level Clearance Required)

ICF is actively recruiting for an experienced Cyber Security Engineer to join our team on-site in Fort Meade MD. This role will support customer-related technical requirements and synchronize priorities across the platforms functional areas. The Cyber Security Engineer will provide subject matter expert guidance on cyber range development and execution systems administration cybersecurity and account management support.

This work will be onsite supporting a program at Ft. Meade MD

What You Will Be Doing:

The Cyber Security Engineer will provide technical (back end) expertise to support large scale cyber exercises and multi-spectrum cyber operations. Duties include:

• Serve as a lead advisor for cyber range operations supporting DCO/OCO activities for U.S. Cyber Command (USCC).
• Collaborate with experienced cyber operators to provide cyber range expertise that enables DCO and OCO missions for USCC and the service components.
• Convert cyber mission force training and mission rehearsal objectives into executable event environments.
• Support the design and execution of cyber range events.
• Provide subject matter expertise in architecture authentication and system security.
• Participate in a regular on-call rotation.
• Lead continuous process improvements across event activities.
• Deliver expert IT virtual environment and network support.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience.
• At least 4 years of experience with CNO CNE and CND platforms.
• 5 years of experience supporting cyber training validation exercises and Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs).
• Active high-level security clearance required with the ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph.
• Due to the nature of the work and contract requirements US citizenship is required.
• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification or higher (for example Security CCNA CISSP or equivalent).
• Strong working knowledge of networking including DNS routing TCP/IP and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Microsoft technologies Active Directory Security Onion and VMware.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Identity Management (IdM) and Single Sign-On (SSO) using LDAP.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in a technical field such as information technology computer science systems engineering software engineering or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of the Joint Events Life Cycle (JELC) and both defensive and offensive cyber tools.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of DNS including authoritative and recursive servers SOA NS MX A and CNAME records.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of routing protocols and concepts including OSPF static routing BGP route maps access lists prefix lists advertise maps and route weights.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Exchange including edge servers recipient email addressing mailboxes and client auto-configuration.
• Intermediate knowledge of Security Onion or Splunk including interface requirements scalability considerations and enterprise configurations; understanding of VMware port properties and their relationship to sensor ports and promiscuous mode.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and business leadership.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks projects and competing demands.
• Experience working with vendors users customers and developers to identify needs and operational requirement changes that affect the production environment.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across integrated software and hardware platforms.

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