Cybersecurity Engineer

About the role

Join LCE and become part of a 100% employee‐owned, mission‐focused DoD government contractor, that takes pride in a culture where every individual has a genuine stake in our success. Employee ownership is a mindset that shapes how we support our customers, collaborate as teams, and invest in the long-term health of our company.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Research, design, and implement cybersecurity solutions for organization systems and products that comply with all applicable security policies and standards.
• Work with IT/OT and internal and external business partners to ensure that security is factored in the evaluation, selection, installation and configuration process of hardware and software.
• Analyze and make recommendations to improve network, system and application architectures.
• Examine network, server, and application logs to determine trends and identify security incidents.
• Evaluate an organization's computer networks, applications and data systems for vulnerabilities.
• Monitor networks for security breaches, violations, or other related issues and develops solutions to defend against such issues.
• Assists in the review and update of cyber security policies, architectures and standards.
• Affords assistance in responding to audits, penetration tests and vulnerability assessments.
• Researches the latest trends in IT and security.
• Provides strategic risk guidance for IT projects including the evaluation and recommendation of technical controls.
• Develops, maintains and publishes up-to-date information security policies, standards and guidelines.
• Oversees the approval, training, and dissemination of security policies and practices.
• Manages security incidents and events to protect assets including intellectual property, regulated data and the company's reputation.
• Maintains awareness of the external threat environment for emerging threats and advises relevant stakeholders on the appropriate courses of action.

Required Education, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or related field or an extra 4 years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Jr. Level: 2 - 4 years experience with a minimum IAT lvl 2 compliant certification (Security+, etc.).
• Mid. Level: 4 - 7 years experience with a minimum IAT lvl 3 or IAM lvl 2 compliant certification (CISSP, CISA, GCIH, etc.).
• Sr. Level: 7+ years experience with a minimum IAM lvl 2 compliant certification (CISM, CISSP, etc.).
• Experience with Cybersecurity tools such as ACAS/Nessus, RedSeal, Trellix Endpoint Security (formerly HBSS), Splunk, SCAP Compliance Checker, etc.
• Experience with Linux, Windows, and Networking.
• Working knowledge of STIGs.
• Experience with NIST SP 800 series.

Qualifications

Security Clearance Requirements: US citizenship required Active security clearance required (Security clearance eligibility may be considered on a case-by-case basis.)