SecOps Engineer

SNI Technology has an immediate need for a SecOps Engineer to join our team with a very reputable and established Federal Contractor in the DC/Maryland area!

This position is able to be mostly remote with the occasional travel to headquarters.

We are seeking a SecOps Engineer who ideally has a background in Systems/Network Engineering, who is focused on threat assessments, vulnerability scanning, and remediation.

The successful SecOps Engineer candidate will serve as a recognized expert on IT risk management, providing an active role in shaping and influencing design and implementation of key information technology strategies. This role will have responsibility for sourcing and introducing both internal and external best practices into IT risk management and security to build the capability of the function and its teams.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with security policies, standards, and procedures
• Coordinate with firm IT Operations teams, including Systems, Network, Dev-Ops and Help Desk teams on implementation and support of key Microsoft/Azure/ O365 and AWS initiatives.
• Provide SME support for new and existing Cloud initiatives security systems for network, application, and databases; providing technical support as needed.
• Assist in maintaining enterprise information security policies, technical standards, guidelines, and procedures necessary to support information security in compliance with established company policies, regulatory requirements, and generally accepted information security controls.
• Assist with the creation of a common control framework, for use by all project teams in meeting ATO requirements.
• Work with all functions within the IT operations team to implement threat detection signals, deploy new tooling, and improve response capabilities.
• Identify opportunities for security process improvement and assist in the further development of those processes.
• Conducts audits and/or assessments, to identify cloud-related risks and vulnerabilities and coordinates remediation activities
• Tracks and reports on the effectiveness of cloud information security technology controls, processes, and policies.
• Provides threat modeling and risk assessment to identify the risk and severity posture of various systems in cloud environments
• Assists with the investigation of security incidents, recommends, and implements solutions to remediate or mitigate threats and vulnerabilities.
• Provide subject matter expertise with Office 365 and Microsoft Azure with emphasis in security products and processes such as ATP (Advanced Threat Protection), security policies for Office 365, Azure AD Identity Protection and Conditional Access (CA).
• Provide subject matter expertise in compliance and data retention, leveraging Office 365, Data Loss Protection. Provide architecture and security expertise for Microsoft Azure and AWS security technologies and strategy.
• Provide consultation on higher level services such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS layers, Authentication/Authorization, Data encryption, Key management, and other security services.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant security, privacy, and cloud technology trends.
• Collaborates in the design, development, and implementation of security standards.

Qualifications:

Education: BS in technical discipline and or demonstrated 10 years industry experience. Certified Information Systems Security Specialist certification (CISSP). At least 5 years’ experience in the following areas:

• Hands on experience managing IT Infrastructure solutions which includes operating systems, networks, DNS, firewalls, SSO, MFA, AWS, Azure, Active Directory, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Administration and management of security technologies and products such as SIEM, data loss prevention, endpoint security, sandboxing, threat intelligence, pen testing and vulnerable vulnerability management, identity management.
• Experience as an Azure/O365 engineer.
• Experience with security automation and orchestration

Job Knowledge:

• Familiarity with best practices for vulnerability management, risk analysis, reporting metrics and assessments.
• Familiar with industry security standards such as NIST cybersecurity framework, ISO 27001, OWASP Security Testing guidelines.

Language: English fluency (oral and written)