Security Engineer
Via Logic LLC · Ashburn, VA · 2 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$80k–$130k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID. Must remove boilerplate: EEO, accessibility, fraud notice, etc. Must preserve all substantive info.
Let's parse content:
- Location: Onsite at a government site in the Washington, DC metropolitan area
- Type: Full-time, W-2
- Compensation: $80,000–$130,000 annually, depending on experience and assignment
- Experience: Approximately 1–5 years of relevant experience; we are hiring at multiple levels
- One posting, several possible routes. Via Logic is hiring for multiple openings at different experience levels. Your work may focus on network defenses, security platforms, system hardening, access controls, or integrating security tools across an environment. The broad experience and compensation ranges reflect the different openings; we will explore where your strengths fit best.
- Eligibility & Clearance Requirements: Must be US citizens, able to complete CBP suitability process (background investigation, credit history). Meet any additional clearance requirement; some assignments may require Secret or Top Secret clearance, specialized assignments may require SCI eligibility. We will confirm requirement as we match candidates.
- Your Mission: list of duties (configure, maintain, improve security controls; help implement and troubleshoot tools such as firewalls, IDS, endpoint protection, access controls, security monitoring platforms; work with system owners to address vulnerabilities, strengthen configurations, verify improvements; support incident investigation and remediation; integrate security tools and processes with teams; document configurations, changes, procedures, recommendations).
- What You Bring to the Expedition: approx 1-5 years relevant experience in security engineering, network or systems engineering with security focus, or related technical field. Consider depth alongside years. Hands-on experience configuring, administering, or improving at least one security technology or control. Familiarity with some of the following: network security, firewalls, IDS/IPS, endpoint security, identity and access, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, application security, cloud security, or logging. Ability to diagnose a problem, work with technical partners on a fix, verify result. Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC metro area. Experience in adjacent application, cloud, or network security specialties welcome. Specific technologies and duties vary by assignment; you do not need to have worked with every control listed.
- Why Explorers Stay: Healthcare coverage and paid time off that give you room to take care of life outside work. Teammates who share knowledge, pitch in, and help each other grow. Opportunities to deepen your specialty and explore adjacent areas of cybersecurity as new assignments open up. Meaningful work protecting systems that support a federal mission.
- How We Work: These roles work onsite at a government site in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The specific site depends on the assignment. You will work with Via Logic teammates, government partners, and other technical teams using tools approved for your work environment. Schedules depend on the opening. We will discuss any extended hours or on-call expectations before moving forward with a specific assignment. When virtual meetings are part of the work, we expect active participation and use video when appropriate and permitted by the customer environment.
- Your Route Into Via Logic: Tell us what you have configured, improved, or protected. We are hiring for multiple openings at different levels through this posting, and a few clear sentences can tell us a lot. If your strongest work leans toward network, application, or cloud security, we want to hear about that too.
- About Via Logic: description of company.
We need to map to sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to decide what goes where.
- About the role: maybe a summary of the role: "Your Mission" and "What You Bring"? But we need to follow typical sections: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (eligibility/clearance?), Qualifications (experience, education?), Skills (specific tech), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not invent sections lacking content. Ensure each section has substantive content.
Let's extract:
Overview / About the role: Could be the paragraph about "One posting, several possible routes..." and "Via Logic is hiring for multiple openings..." plus maybe location and type. That seems appropriate.
Responsibilities: "Your Mission" bullet list.
Requirements: Eligibility & Clearance Requirements (US citizenship, CBP suitability, clearance). Also maybe ability to work onsite.
Qualifications: Experience 1-5 years, depth, hands-on experience, etc.
Skills: Familiarity with list of technologies, ability to diagnose, etc.
Benefits: "Why Explorers Stay": healthcare coverage, paid time off, teammates, opportunities, meaningful work.
Pay: Compensation range $80,000–$130,000 annually.
Schedule: "How We Work" includes schedules depend on opening, discuss extended hours or on-call expectations. Also location onsite. So we can put schedule info there.
We must not include boilerplate like Equal Opportunity, Accessibility, Fraud notice. Also remove "Your Route Into Via Logic" and "About Via Logic"? Those could be considered optional but maybe we can include as part of About the role? The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine some. But we need to follow headings list; we can omit sections if no real specific content. However we have content for each of the eight sections. Let's see if any are thin.
- About the role: we have location, type, overview. Good.
- Responsibilities: we have mission duties list.
- Requirements: eligibility/clearance.
- Qualifications: experience, depth, hands-on.
- Skills: familiarity list, diagnostic ability.
- Benefits: healthcare, PTO, teammates, growth, meaningful work.
- Pay: compensation range.
- Schedule: schedule depends, extended hours, on-call, virtual meetings.
All have content.
We must not repeat job title. Not include Job ID.
We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
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For lists, use- . We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like location, type, etc. Let's craft each section. About the role: combine location, type, and overview paragraph. Text: "Onsite at a government site in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Full-time, W-2 position. Via Logic is hiring for multiple openings at different experience levels. Your work may focus on network defenses, security platforms, system hardening, access controls, or integrating security tools across an environment. The broad experience and compensation ranges reflect the different openings; we will explore where your strengths fit best." We could also mention "One posting, several possible routes." but that's covered. Responsibilities: list from "Your Mission". Items: - Configure, maintain, and improve security controls across systems, applications, or networks. - Help implement and troubleshoot tools such as firewalls, intrusion detection, endpoint protection, access controls, or security monitoring platforms, depending on the assignment. - Work with system owners to address vulnerabilities, strengthen configurations, and verify that improvements are working as intended. - Support incident investigation and remediation when the systems or controls you manage are involved. - Integrate security tools and processes with the teams that operate the environment, keeping reliability and mission needs in view. - Document configurations, changes, procedures, and recommendations so teammates can build on your work. Make each as
- . Requirements: Eligibility & Clearance Requirements: - Be U.S. citizens. - Be able to complete the CBP suitability process and receive a favorable determination before starting the assignment. The process includes a background investigation and review of credit history. - Meet any additional clearance requirement for the specific opening. Some assignments may require a Secret or Top Secret clearance, and specialized assignments may require SCI eligibility. We will confirm the requirement as we match candidates to openings. Also maybe ability to work onsite? But that's more schedule/location. Qualifications: "What You Bring to the Expedition" plus experience. - Approximately 1–5 years of relevant experience in security engineering, network or systems engineering with a security focus, or a related technical field. We will consider the depth of your work alongside your years of experience. - Hands-on experience configuring, administering, or improving at least one security technology or control. - Familiarity with some of the following: network security, firewalls, IDS/IPS, endpoint security, identity and access, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, application security, cloud security, or logging. - The ability to diagnose a problem, work with technical partners on a fix, and verify the result. - The ability to work onsite in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. - Experience in adjacent application, cloud, or network security specialties is welcome. - Specific technologies and duties vary by assignment; you do not need to have worked with every control listed here. But note that some of these overlap with Skills. We need to split: Qualifications maybe experience and depth; Skills maybe specific tech familiarity and diagnostic ability. However the instruction says use sections as appropriate; we can keep both but ensure not duplicate. Let's decide: Qualifications: experience level, depth, hands-on experience, ability to work onsite, experience in adjacent specialties welcome. Skills: familiarity with list of technologies, ability to diagnose, etc. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's parse "What You Bring" text: "Approximately 1–5 years of relevant experience in security engineering, network or systems engineering with a security focus, or a related technical field. We will consider the depth of your work alongside your years of experience. Hands-on experience configuring, administering, or improving at least one security technology or control. Familiarity with some of the following: network security, firewalls, IDS/IPS, endpoint security, identity and access, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, application security, cloud security, or logging. The ability to diagnose a problem, work with technical partners on a fix, and verify the result. The ability to work onsite in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Experience in adjacent application, cloud, or network security specialties is welcome. Specific technologies and duties vary by assignment; you do not need to have worked with every control listed here." We could treat the first two bullets as Qualifications (experience, hands-on). The familiarity list and diagnostic ability as Skills. Ability to work onsite maybe as Requirements? But it's more about location; could be in Schedule or About the role. However we already have location in About the role. So we could omit that from Qualifications/Skills. Thus: Qualifications: - Approximately 1–5 years of relevant experience in security engineering, network or systems engineering with a security focus, or a related technical field. We will consider the depth of your work alongside your years of experience. - Hands-on experience configuring, administering, or improving at least one security technology or control. - Experience in adjacent application, cloud, or network security specialties is welcome. Skills: - Familiarity with some of the following: network security, firewalls, IDS/IPS, endpoint security, identity and access, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, application security, cloud security, or logging. - The ability to diagnose a problem, work with technical partners on a fix, and verify the result. But we also need to include "Specific technologies and duties vary by assignment; you do not need to have worked with every control listed here." That's a note; could be added as a paragraph under Skills. Benefits: from "Why Explorers Stay": - Healthcare coverage and paid time off that give you room to take care of life outside work. - Teammates who share knowledge, pitch in, and help each other grow. - Opportunities to deepen your specialty and explore adjacent areas of cybersecurity as new assignments open up. - Meaningful work protecting systems that support a federal mission. Pay: Compensation: $80,000–$130,000 annually, depending on experience and assignment. Schedule: from