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Cybersecurity Operations Engineer
Client: National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC)
POP: 12 months
Location: Washington, DC
US Citizen
SCOPE
Seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Operations Engineer to support a federal agency cybersecurity program. This role will lead daily cyber defense operations across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments, strengthen monitoring capabilities, improve threat detection, and support incident response.
REQUIRED SKILLS
- 6 years cybersecurity operations experience
- Federal cybersecurity experience preferred
- Strong knowledge of:
- NIST
- FISMA
- CISA directives
- Azure Security
- Defender
- SIEM platforms
- Experience with PowerShell automation
PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS
- CISSP
- CEH
- Security
- SC-200
- AZ-500
TASKS
- Manage and optimize SIEM, Syslog, EDR, NDR, firewall, and Microsoft security tools
- Monitor logs, alerts, anomalies, and indicators of compromise
- Perform proactive threat hunting
- Lead cybersecurity incident response actions
- Improve detection rules, automation, SOAR workflows
- Support Continuous Monitoring under FISMA/NIST
- Prepare metrics, dashboards, risk reports
- Develop SOPs and security documentation
- Support Azure security, Defender for Cloud, M365 security stack