Security Engineer Junior

About the role

Dunhill Government Solutions is hiring a Security Engineer (Junior) to provide security engineering and sustainment support for a federal agency's cyber forensic enterprise network, across existing data center locations, transitional locations and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Advise on and help maintain and engineer the forensic network infrastructure, hardware and software, throughout its lifecycle
• Use the agency's change-request process and ticketing system to identify priorities and service requests, act on them, and track, update and close tickets
• Document all operating procedures and processes
• Support activities that affect security or availability: change management, configuration of critical equipment, and vulnerability management including patching
• Ensure every change is approved by senior engineering and IT security staff before execution
• Work across technology evaluation, security tool engineering and maintenance, analysis of alternatives, logging capabilities and requirements, data retention and storage, hardware lifecycle management, software maintenance and assurance, and configuration management

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in security engineering
• Ability to work on site in Ashburn, VA (no telework), core hours 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, with on-call support
• US Citizenship (no dual citizenship) and the ability to pass a federal background investigation in order to be granted access to sensitive information
• Preferred: Experience maintaining SIEM infrastructure and operating systems that collect and aggregate data sources such as IDS data from network sensors, collection agents, firewalls, proxy servers, DLP, antivirus and vulnerability scanners

Pay

$90,000 - $119,000 per year