Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Palmer Lake
Job Description Job Description Your work in cybersecurity will have an impact on securing our clients' missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow. As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.
Responsibilities:
Monitor day-to-day operations of the sensors (Suricata, Palo Alto, and ArcSight) located at supporting customer's locations
Perform Enterprise Defense Countermeasure (DC) activities and coordination with other government agencies to record and prepare incident reports and analysis methodology and results
Monitor and analyze signature alerts from Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for false positives
Provide technical enforcement of organizational security policies
Provide "tune-or-drop" recommendations towards the DC team's Signature Lifecycle Review procedure
Provide insight to Detection and Response teams on signature functionality and providing signature tuning as needed
Communicate with customers and teammates clearly and concisely
Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned
Participate in special projects as required
Position is day shift but may require evening, weekend or shift-work (depending on operational tempo)
Preferred Skills:
Experience authoring Snort signatures
Experience authoring Yara rules
Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)
Experience in intrusion detection and prevention systems
Proficient in network security technologies and protocols
Dashboarding in Splunk
Palo Alto Certification Next-Generation Firewall
Requirements:
Active TS clearance w/ SCI eligibility
Ability to obtain CI poly
DoD 8570 IAT II AND CSSP Infrastructure Support certifications