Who is Saliense?

Saliense is a growing Management and Technology Consulting Solutions provider based out of Mclean, VA. We work to solve our client’s toughest challenges within the Defense, Civilian, Financial, and Healthcare industries. Our diverse employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. For more information, visit www.saliense.com.

Why Saliense?

In addition to providing a fun, energetic environment that promotes innovation and personal growth, we offer excellent compensation packages with plenty of opportunities for advancement. We pay 100% of the premiums for employee Healthcare, including medical, dental, and vision. We offer a 401K match, and all company contributions are 100% vested immediately. Since we believe in work-life balance so much, we offer 20 days of paid leave per year. Use it as you need it or use it all at once and go travel for a month! We are proud to offer parental leave.

There are many more - connect with us to get a preview of the full benefits package.

Saliensehas a new opportunity for aCloud Security Engineer (AWS)to support theOffice of Naval Research in Arlington, VA.

This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days/week onsite in Arlington, VA.

The Engineer will assist the Office of Naval Research establish an information technology network operation center (NSOC). The Cloud Security Engineer will directly support the Network Operations Team working in collaboration with the Information Assurance (IA)/Cybersecurity/Computer Network Defense (CND) Team to perform network operations functions in support of the security information and event management (SIEM) tasks.

Duties & Responsibilities:

AWS:

- Manage AWS accounts, including the setup and configuration of EC2 instances and RDS databases.

- Familiarity with AWS CloudWatch and dashboarding, S3 bucket administration, Systems manager for automation of patching and maintenance tasks, AWS backup configuration, backups and restores.

- Create documentation for infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure repeatability and maintainability.

- Basic AWS Networking skills, such as VPC configurations, creating subnets, security groups, and tagging.

System Engineering:

- Manage and maintain on-premises systems and server infrastructure as needed.

- Participate in system design, capacity planning, and disaster recovery planning.

- Collaborate with Systems Engineering and IA teams to deploy and configure new systems and services.

SIEM Management:

- Configure and maintain the McAfee SIEM platform to monitor and analyze security events and incidents.

- Develop and maintain correlation rules, alerts, and dashboards to detect and respond to security threats effectively.

- Collaborate with security analysts to investigate and mitigate security incidents based on SIEM alerts.

- Conduct regular SIEM system upgrades and ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.

Required Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Required Experience:

• 10 years of experience related to network engineering and security
• McAfee Suite of products, Splunk Remedy ticketing system, and ITSM framework
• TCP/IP, Computer networking, routing, and switching
• Firewall and IDS/IPS protocols
• Windows and UNIX and Linux operating systems
• Network protocols and packet analysis tools
• SIEM
• DLP, Endpoint Security, and anti-malware
• Active IAT Level II Certification (Sec , CCNA, CySA , GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP, or equivalent) AND Operating System (OS)/Computing Environment (CE) certification
• Active or interim Secret Clearance

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