Security Engineer

Verotis is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to support security operations strategy planning architecture vulnerability assessments and remediation and coordination with various government security entities. This includes the documentation of security strategy planning architecture implementation and operation of a wide range of security technologies in mission critical environment. The candidate should be familiar with the following:

• Security Operations Engineering and Architecture
• Sourcefire NIDS
• McAfee ePO (HBSS)
• Nessus/SecurityCenter
• Splunk
• Firewalls (Cisco ASA)
• RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu/*nix
• Windows Desktop and Server Operating Systems
• Virtualization Technologies (VMWare etc)

The candidate will be responsible for updating system software reviewing and applying content (AV NIDS) updates developing custom signatures and content administration of firewalls IDS and other security system rule sets and policies. The candidate will need to have a strong knowledge of the underlying technologies that contribute to the system infrastructure and how they interact. Network Operating Systems Applications and Servers and Security Hardware and Software.

Functional Responsibilities:

The candidate may perform any or all of the following:

• Develop system security design documentation
• Develop network security systems and security operation center knowledge base articles howto documents standard operating procedures and policies
• Develop incident investigation and incident handling knowledge base articles howto documents and standard operating procedures
• Design implement maintain administer and operate network security systems
• Review all IT system development plans to ensure designs meet governmental regulatory standards and provide an appropriate level of protection for the client systems and data that interacts with those systems
• Conducts analysis of system requirements and components and performs system audits to ensure intended system functionality operation and performance requirements are met
• Develops programs scripts or code segments as necessary to facilitate operation administration maintenance or analysis of data and systems
• Performs evaluation and review of GOTS/COTS software and systems to ensure they meet government regulatory requirements
• Evaluates installs configures tests and updates network security systems and hardware
• Trained and skilled individual with indepth knowledge of the Security Tasks listed in the SOW. Resource will provide training and knowledge transfer on these technologies to the other operational resources team

Qualifications:

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance
• Minimum of 8 years of general work experience and 6 years of relevant experience in functional responsibility
• Bachelors Degree or an equivalent combination of formal education experience
• Understanding of and experience working in a classified environment
• Candidate should have strong analytical and organizational skills
• Candidate should have concise writing skills excellent MS Word skills as well as other MS Office Applications
• CISSP GCFW GSEC Splunk or other certifications preferred (not required)
• Thorough understanding and knowledge of TCP/IP networking
• Experience with network security tools such as Tenable Nessus/SecurityCenter SourceFire IDS Cisco ASA Splunk etc.
• Understanding and experience with virtualization technologies (VMWare) a plus
• Experience with the following: Windows Server 2008/2012 Windows 7/8/10 McAfee ePO (HBSS) SourceFire IDS Syslog (rsyslog syslogng etc) Linux variants (RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu) Event log collection scripting (Python Perl Bash PowerShell) VMWare