AWS Cloud Systems Security Engineer (AE26091225)

About the role

Mission: Management, sustainment and security of NSANet AWS infrastructure. Location: Annapolis Junction, MD. All work is on-site; this is not a hybrid or remote position. Clearance: Active Top Secret SCI with appropriate polygraph. Certifications: None required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, integrate and manage multiple security sensor platforms: EDR, XDR, NDR.
• Implement and manage kernel integrity monitoring software onto all endpoints.
• Write detection endpoint and network signatures.
• Operate as the lead Security Operations Center analyst to monitor for threats to the system.
• Monitor for threats.
• Develop reports on any identified threats.
• Implement security validation platforms to test all security sensors.
• Administer endpoints running Red Hat and Ubuntu images.
• Develop visibility dashboards and custom data ingest pipelines in the SIEM for each of the security sensor platforms.
• Develop custom pipelines for data from the security sensor platform.
• Develop microsegmentation rules within VMWare NSX-T for secure communications across the enterprise.
• Implement Tenable Security Center into the enterprise.
• Develop scan profiles.
• Develop scan rules.
• Schedule scans of the entire enterprise.
• Monitor scans for erroneous data and adjust them accordingly.
• Monitor scan results for findings and report them to the infrastructure team for remediation.
• Maintain levels of communication with both the infrastructure team and the ISSOs for maintenance of ATO.

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Bachelors Degree with 20 years experience in cloud operations and security; OR, HS with 25 years of experience. Five (5) most recent years cloud experience must be with AWS in the national security (IC) environment.

Benefits

• Full-time Employees 401K with employer contribution. Fully vested at 1 year anniversary.
• Five (5) weeks comprehensive annual leave (25 workdays). Additional leave can be earned in lieu of overtime.
• 11 Paid Federal Government Holidays.
• Up to $5,000 annually for individually tailored education / training program. All education plans must be pre-approved by Advantage Engineering management.
• Life Insurance at 1x annual salary with employee option to purchase additional coverage for self and dependents.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• We contribute a generous portion towards the cost of monthly medical plans for any of the three medical, 1 dental and 1 vision plan provided by CareFirst.
• All employees are eligible to earn generous incentives and performance bonuses.