DCO Engineer – Patrick SFB, TS/SCI eligible Clearance

Years of Experience: Minimum of 5 years of technical experience in cyber-defense or cyber security related fields

Security Clearance: Active or current Top-Secret Clearance and SCI eligibility required

Location: On-site

General Description:

We require a Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) SME with a desire to actively defend the mission systems critical to our national defense. As a senior engineer the candidate will lead individuals towards common goals and work with engineers to apply extensive expertise on multiple complex work assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks. Leads the development of DCO methodologies and presents solutions to problems. Contributes to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable. Consults on IT and cyber defensive architecture and technologies. Assesses assigned cyber key terrain to thoroughly understand the mission, architecture and associated threat. Advises on technical design and implementation of DCO capabilities required to effectively protect, detect and respond to cyber threats and attacks. Researches cyber defense technologies for best fit based on mission, architecture and current threat. Leads the design, implementation, configuration and/or tuning of cyber defensive technology. Authors documentation to include SOPs, checklists, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, crew binders, etc. to support DCO. Adapts technologies to meet the mission architecture and threat.

Technical Experience:

5 years of technical experience in cyber-defense or cyber security related fields (e.g., engineering, networking, systems integration, solutions etc.). These years may be in conjunction with Technical Experience years and must come from at least 2 of the following areas:

• Container or virtual environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, AWS)
• In-band and out-of-band test access points for network traffic collection and aggregation (e.g. Gigamon)
• Data storage solutions (e.g. NFS storage, distributed storage, etc.)
• Data-analysis toolsets (e.g. Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, Splunk, etc.)
• Agile frameworks for software development
• Linux operating systems (Red Hat, Kali, etc.)
• Windows operating systems
• Network infrastructure
• Security applications (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response [SOAR], Security Information and Events Management [SIEM], Intrusion Detection Systems [IDS], etc.)

Salary Range: $130,000 – $150,000 (annually)