Security Engineer

Agile Defense
Reston, VA, United States
4 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Compensation
$160,000 - $170,000
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Configuration Management Cyber Security Firmware Intrusion Detection and Prevention Zero Trust Network Access SAP Sales and Distribution Wide Area Networks Data Logging Enterprise Software Applications Computer Network Operations Cybercrime Vulnerability Analysis

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Security Engineer to support and enhance our cybersecurity operations. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications, networks, and data. This role requires a strong technical background, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and a commitment to supporting mission and customer objectives., * A Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and improving security solutions that protect an organization’s systems, networks, applications, and data from cyber threats.

  • This role involves monitoring security tools and alerts, conducting vulnerability assessments, supporting incident response and remediation efforts, implementing security controls, and ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
  • Security Engineers collaborate closely with SOC analysts, system administrators, developers, and stakeholders to identify risks, strengthen security posture, and support mission objectives.
  • They also develop security documentation, support audits and assessments, analyze emerging threats, recommend process improvements, and stay current on evolving cybersecurity trends and technologies to enhance operational effectiveness and reduce organizational risk, * Operating and maintaining defensive platforms day-to-day, including configuration management, policy tuning, software/firmware lifecycle and patching, capacity planning, and health monitoring.
  • Leading engineering projects end-to-end-requirements, design, testing, and implementation-for new and upgraded capabilities such as SASE/ZTNA and SD-WAN across enterprise and hybrid (on-premises and cloud) environments.
  • Developing and maintaining secure configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, and engineering documentation, and automating repeatable configuration and operational tasks to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
  • Translating threat intelligence and detection findings into infrastructure-level defensive improvements-firewall policy, segmentation, access control, and traffic inspection-to harden the environment against current adversary tactics.
  • Collaborating with the SOC, logging and observability, and network operations teams, and with product vendors, to integrate capabilities, resolve issues, and align infrastructure with operational and mission requirements.
  • Operating and supporting intrusion detection sensor infrastructure to ensure reliable security telemetry delivery to the SOC and logging/observability teams.
  • Identifying gaps in defensive coverage, resilience, and operational processes; recommending and implementing improvements; and providing technical input to architecture and roadmap decisions.

Preferred Skills

  • Security Engineering Certifications

Requirements

  • Bachelors Degree, 7 years of experience, * Engineering, deploying, and sustaining the enterprise network security infrastructure-next-generation firewalls, SASE/ZTNA, and SD-WAN-to ensure availability, performance, and a defensible security posture.

Benefits & conditions

$160,000 - $170,000 a year In addition, Agile Defense invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Agile’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections. Our Core Values Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together. What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It’s how we show up every day. It’s who we are.

  • Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
  • Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
  • Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
  • Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
  • Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
  • Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.

About the company

At Agile Defense, we know that our employees are our most important asset. We believe in our responsibility to our fellow employees, customers, company, and to our country. We promote teamwork, integrity, and creativity; we expect our fellow employees to also live these values.

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