Cybersecurity Engineer

At Saliense, we are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. Our employees are encouraged to take on challenging and meaningful work, with ample opportunities for career advancement.

Benefits

• 20 Days PTO + 40 Hours of Paid Sick & Safe Time
• 11 Federal Holidays + 2 Corporate Holidays
• Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance
• 401(k) with Tiered Match & 100% Vesting
• Parental Leave for Birthing and Non-Birthing Parents
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program

We believe in empowering our team members to achieve their professional goals while contributing to impactful projects that make a difference. Join us at Saliense and be part of a growing organization dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Visit www.saliense.com to learn more.

Responsibilities

• Define, review, and enforce information security policy, standards, and guidelines for business operations and technology implementations.
• Proactively speculate and identify IT security risks from technical and functional perspectives.
• Conduct technical security assessments as part of the enterprise vulnerability and patch management program.
• Conduct as needed technical security assessments, audits, penetration testing, and forensic IT functions of client/server systems (native and virtual), databases, networks, and vehicle/appliance technology systems.
• Coordinate and conduct event collection, log management, event management, compliance automation, and identity monitoring activities for the enterprise.
• Analyze data collected by the event monitoring system(s), identifying results that dictate immediate corrective action, trends that drive prompt action, and areas that require continued monitoring and/or further analysis.
• Maintain awareness of current security trends and threats, respond to reported incidents to conclusion, and provide awareness to system users.
• Coordinate IT security matters such as incident response, intrusion detection management, and customer security advisories.

Requirements

Required Education: BS/BA in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Physical Science, or other technology-related discipline.

• Minimum of three (3) years of proven information systems security engineering experience.
• In-depth knowledge and management of one or more Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) tools.
• Hands-on experience in penetration testing and router/firewall management.
• In-depth, hands-on configuration and management of one or more SIEM tools.
• Log collection, aggregation, normalization, and correlation from diverse sources (e.g., servers, network devices, and applications).
• Event monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience with conducting penetration testing and technical security assessments.
• Vulnerability and patch management.
• Automated and manual security testing techniques.
• Router and firewall management, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS).
• Operating system security, including experience with Windows and Linux environments.
• Securing virtualized client/server systems.
• Database security.
• Coordinating and managing security incident response efforts.
• Forensic IT functions to investigate security breaches and determine root cause.
• Log analysis for security incidents.
• Defining, reviewing, and enforcing information security policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of current security trends and threats.
• Researching new attack vectors.
• Thinking like a hacker to anticipate vulnerabilities.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automating security tasks and managing systems.
• Experience with security automation frameworks.

Schedule

This role requires one day onsite in Arlington, VA.