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# Remote Baseline Security Engineer

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Apple IOS, Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, Computer Programming, Databases, Linux, JSON, Windows Servers, OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Ansible, Salesforce.Com, Xen Servers, Cloud Platform System, Okta, Office365, Juniper, Cloudformation, Containerization, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, CIS Benchmarks, Api Gateway, Puppet, Terraform, Serverless Computing, Cisco, Servicenow
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/7A9BCCC8C7AA47868AA3335AB968EF23/job/

## About the Role

5+ years of IT/security experience who has hands-on CIS or STIG experience and has actually created or customized security baselines. They need to understand NIST 800-53/RMF and be technical enough to understand how Windows, Linux, networking, or cloud systems should be hardened. The biggest thing is that I don't just want someone who has worked in a STIG environment. I want someone who has actually built, modified, or maintained the baselines., 5+ years of experience providing support to Information Technology (IT) operations -Experience creating security baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks -Experience reviewing, developing, or customizing general security configuration baselines -Knowledge of NIST 800 Special Publication series guidance for risk management and security control implementation, including 800-30,800-37, 800-53, 800-60, 800-63, 800-115, or 800-137 -Knowledge of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) -Ability to create security baselines from scratch using vendor documentation -Ability to modify CIS and STIG benchmarks to meet organizational requirements -Ability to translate low-level security baseline requirements into high-level FISMA and NIST requirements and client-specific security -Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements -HS diploma or GED -Experience with networking, including Cisco,
Juniper, or Palo Alto, operating systems, including Windows Server, Red Hat, or Linux, cloud services, including AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Okta, O365, or ServiceNow, or mobile technologies, including iOS or Xen Mobile -Experience designing, building, and implementing automation tools, including Ansible, Chef, or Puppet -Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, including CloudFormation or Terraform -Experience with container platforms, including OpenShift -Experience with chaos engineering and blue or green deployments -Experience with serverless, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and SAM -Experience with application performance analysis and monitoring, including ELK -Experience with JSON or YMAL programming -Bachelor's degree -AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, CCNA, MSCE, RHCSA, EBSA, or ECSS Certification