Information Assurance Security Engineer

About the role

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an Information Assurance Security Engineer on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer.

Responsibilities

• Acts as the representative of the Information System Security Manager ensuring compliance with IS security procedures.
• Supports efforts to operate, maintain, and dispose of information system materials in accordance with security directives, policies and practices and as annotated in Systems Security Plans.
• Generates and implements requisite security training to ensure user security awareness of responsibilities prior to system access.
• Initiates protective and corrective measures when incident or vulnerabilities are discovered.
• Ensures IA hardware and software complies with security configuration guides.
• Implements and enforces IA policies and procedures as defined by A&A documentation.
• Safeguards users' IA responsibilities.
• Works on multiple projects/tasks at once and operates in a dynamic, fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Performs Operations & Sustainment (O&S) functions for the NCE network security infrastructure (firewalls, web gateways, mail gateways, IDS, load balancers, performance monitoring tools, management systems, etc).
• Performs maintenance and/or advanced configuration of equipment in order to protect the network from emerging cyber threats.
• Conducts forensic traffic/log analysis to isolate issues or responds to analyst alerts.
• Responds to escalated troubleshooting requests.
• Maintains and administers network infrastructure standards, documentation and fault tolerance.
• Presents Monitoring/Test Results and Reports as required.
• Participates in special projects as required.
• Reviews Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) and conducts a technical decomposition categorization, remediation, and lien resolution.
• Executes remediation process to implement technical solutions to address vulnerability findings via ACAS security scan.

Requirements

• Clearance Required: TS/SCI with ability to obtain CI poly.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, professional training or work experience.
• 10-15 years of related experience in data security administration.
• Required Certification: IAM II certification to start in accordance with DOD 8570.1M.

Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure/AWS-based technology.
• Experience using security tools such as ACAS, HBSS, Carbon Black, Tanium, RedSeal, and EMET.
• Experience installing, hardening, deploying, documenting, and troubleshooting network perimeter security technologies.
• Experience and scripting ability on Unix and/or RHEL OS.
• Experienced with complex Microsoft macros, and PowerShell scripts.
• Basic understanding of Windows Enterprise AD architecture and VMWare Virtualization.
• Must be proficient in network routing/vlan technology.
• Knowledge of and experience with ICD 503 and be familiar with Cloud Infrastructure/AWS-based solutions.

Skills

• Ability to work on multiple projects/tasks at once and operate in a dynamic, fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• System administration experience.
• Network engineering experience.
• System design and development experience.
• Defines, plans, designs, and evaluates information security systems.
• Affords a variety of complex tasks associated with information security ranging from the design of security components to complex architectures.
• Supervises the work of other engineers performing a variety of information security tasks.