Cyber Security Project Engineer - TS/SCI w/Polygraph

About the role

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cyber Security Project Engineer supporting customer activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cyber Security Project Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an Cyber Security Project Engineer joining our highly skilled team to be a premier provider of cyber security services to the customer.

Responsibilities

• Identify, analyze, and respond to security incidents across enterprise and cloud environments.
• Lead and support enterprise-wide incident response activities.
• Collapse and coordinate incident response functions within cloud environments.
• Produce after-action reviews and incident reports for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collect and analyze intrusion artifacts to support mitigation efforts.
• Receive, triage, and investigate network alerts from multiple sources.
• Maintain external threat intelligence to assess potential enterprise impact.
• Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.
• Conduct initial, forensically sound image collection and analysis.
• Preserve evidence integrity in accordance with standards and procedures.
• Document cyber defense techniques, guidance, and incident findings.
• Contribute to enterprise knowledge bases and security best practices.

Requirements

The Cyber Security Project Engineer must possess a TS/SCI clearance with an active polygraph. No required certifications are listed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline.
• 8+ years of related experience.
• Experience with incident response methodologies, categories, and timelines.
• Ability to perform damage assessments and determine remediation paths.
• Experience with intrusion detection methodologies for host and network environments.
• Experience using security event correlation tools.
• Understanding of attack classes, attack stages, and adversary behaviors.
• Experience with malware analysis concepts and containment techniques.
• Ability to identify, capture, contain, and report malware.
• Knowledge of network security architecture, topology, and communication principles.
• Familiarity with network protocols (TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, directory services).
• Familiarity with network services, interactions, and secure communications.
• Knowledge of system administration, OS hardening, and application security threats.
• Understanding of cloud service models and how they affect incident response capabilities.

Skills

• Threat Detection & Intrusion Analysis
• Malware & Vulnerability Analysis
• Network & System Security
• Cloud Security

Benefits

GDIT offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 401(k) with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $152,113 - $205,799. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Additional Work Locations

Total Rewards At GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.

Equal Opportunity Employer

GDIT is an equal opportunity employer / individuals with disabilities / protected veterans