Information Security Engineer
Sterling, Virginia
Employer: SAIC
Industry: Cyber
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Description
Job Description
We are looking for a Cybersecurity Analyst to join our Land Border Integration program and put our Program Security Architect's vision into practice. You will have a fast moving, challenging, and highly rewarding position keeping the network and other infrastructure secure that helps Customs and Border Protection keep our borders safe.
This position is hybrid remote with 1 day a week in office in Sterling VA.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications
Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience
BI Requirement
• Current holder of a DHS Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain one.
• Note: Employment will be contingent upon having/obtaining a DHS Public Trust clearance prior to starting.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
Job Description
We are looking for a Cybersecurity Analyst to join our Land Border Integration program and put our Program Security Architect's vision into practice. You will have a fast moving, challenging, and highly rewarding position keeping the network and other infrastructure secure that helps Customs and Border Protection keep our borders safe.
This position is hybrid remote with 1 day a week in office in Sterling VA.
Responsibilities:
- Proactive Threat Intel and Vulnerability Management: Track threat actors and associated tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
- Oversee the monitoring of security systems, logs, and alerts to detect and respond to threats.
- Investigate security alerts and incidents and take appropriate mitigation steps.
- Fix vulnerabilities and responsible for creating security incident reports.
- Perform static code analysis to analyze source code for application's safety and security.
- Provide guidance to system and application owners to remediate identified vulnerabilities.
- Install security software such as firewalls and encryption programs.
- Continuously improve security operations processes and procedures.
- Work with Security Architect to research, evaluate and recommend new security tools, techniques, and technologies in alignment with enterprise IT security strategy.
- Provide security awareness training to program teams and recommend security enhancements.
- Provide periodic risk assessment and penetration tests.
- Ensure security of facilities, equipment, tools, data, networks, and resources throughout the program: design, development, build, test, storage, delivery, operations, and support.
- Periodically conducts a review of each system's audits and monitors corrective actions until all actions are closed.
- Provide support to plan, coordinate, and implement tactical response to improve the organization's information security posture.
- Possess working knowledge of security practices and procedures; knowledge of current security tools available; hardware/software security implementation; different communication protocols; encryption techniques/tools; familiarity with commercial products, current Internet/EC technology, and open-source methodologies.
- Stay current on cloud and cyber security technology trends.
- Ability to write and verbally communicate information security and risk-related concepts effectively to both technical and non- technical audiences.
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of security principles, best practices, frameworks, and technologies.
- Fundamental technical knowledge of DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, Windows and Linux OSes, firewalls, networks.
- Experience writing Windows Bash and PowerShell scripting, python, and other scripting languages.
- Good understanding of Security Development Lifecycle.
- Must be Clearable (CBP BI Public Trust).
- Must have strong problem-solving and analytical skills and demonstrate poise and ability to act calmly and competently in high-pressure, high stress situations.
- Familiarity with network and host-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) and Security Incident Event Management (SIEM)
- Security certification preferred, such as (CISM, CISSP, CSSP Incident Responder Certification)
Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience
BI Requirement
• Current holder of a DHS Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain one.
• Note: Employment will be contingent upon having/obtaining a DHS Public Trust clearance prior to starting.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
Created: 2024-10-05
Reference: 2412933
Country: United States
State: Virginia
City: Sterling
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