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# Engineer Network 3

- **Company:** HII Mission Technologies
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $88,834.0 - $130,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Systems Development Life Cycle, Secure Coding, Security Content Automation Protocol, Mttr, Information Technology, Nessus
- **Published:** May 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8930481/engineer-network-3

## About the Role

* 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
 * Experience with multiple scanners - Nessus Tenable, SCAP.
 * Experience maintaining a scanning environment.
 * Candidate must have an active TS clearance.

Preferred Requirements

 * Bachelors degree highly preferred in computer science.

Physical Requirements

May require working in an office, industrial, shipboard, or laboratory environment. Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances.

## Description

* Analyze, validate, demonstrate, and adjust severity of vulnerabilities based on actual risk to the organization.
 * Document guidance to provide clarity about our vulnerability reporting and remediation processes.
 * Refine the secure coding and secure cloud configuration guidance and standards provided to engineers.
 * Develop innovative strategies to drive engineering to prioritize fixing issues, from most important to least, while reinforcing best practices in infrastructure, container dependency upgrades and 3rd-party library patching.
 * Evaluate, select, and manage effective tools for detecting and managing security vulnerabilities.
 * Take a "hands-on" approach to build automated integrations with security tools, as well as solutions to inventory, monitor, and report on vulnerability process maturity to leadership and other stakeholders.
 * Assist in shifting the culture toward "security by design" by performing root cause analysis (RCA) on the vulnerabilities and recommending improvements in process and habits to prevent issues from recurring.
 * Demonstrate satisfaction of internal policy and compliance requirements for SLAs by tracking metrics such as MTTR, vulnerability escape rate, and other SDLC and/or CI/CD pipeline measurements.


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