Cybersecurity Engineer-504126

Delaware Nation Industries (DNI) is a prime contractor providing manpower and support of IT Operations and Maintenance within a Federal Agency. We are currently interviewing for a Cyber Security Engineer to support an agency serving more than 4000 users. This position adheres to strict process and policy governance in a defined cyber security enterprise. The selected candidate will be involved with all cyber security tools and process. They will follow a detailed testing framework, to ensure operational functions and security. This role will also provide subject matter expertise and assistance to Agency end-users and staff. We are currently interviewing for a Cyber Security Engineer to support this initiative in an enterprise-level work environment.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Facilitates the implementation and sustainment of government-mandated Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) system, which is comprised of Security Center, Nessus Scanner and the Nessus Network Monitor.
• Patch and maintain servers continuously to meet security compliance standards.
• Troubleshooting application and server issues and responding to federal customer service requests.
• Utilizes software and hardware tools and identifies and diagnoses complex problems and factors affecting performance.
• Ensure that the ACAS scanners and Security Center are operational and reporting properly.
• Perform recurring vulnerability scans and create repositories, queries, and dashboards as necessary to ensure vulnerability report information is available.
• Support incident response efforts by identifying vulnerabilities related to emerging threats and zero-day exploits
• Investigate false-positives or potentially confusing scan data results.
• Designs, builds, and implements network systems.
• Interfaces with PMO and vendor support service groups to support Cyberspace Task Order efforts and ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance.
• Create/Update documentation needed to support the ACAS team requirements, taskings, deliverables, and maintenance of the ACAS solution.
• Engage in weekly ACAS scan meetings in support of the agency’s mitigation, compliance, assessment efforts and initiatives.
• Monitor and track vulnerabilities, End-of-Life and priority action items.
• Perform cyber investigations and analysis.
• Research and analyze a variety of commodity and APT based malware and techniques.
• Search our existing infrastructure for signs of malware and malicious events not detected by our existing security controls.
• Administer Splunk, Trellix ESS, including ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), Solidcore, and DLP
• The ability to work independently as well as collectively within a team, apply critical thinking techniques, and effectively communicate with federal customers and other team members, both orally and in writing.

Requirements

Minimum Experience Required:

• Experience with implementing DISA Security Technical Implementation Guidelines
• Demonstrated experience working with complex system implementations and organizational processes to include maintaining system documentation.
• Active CompTIA Security certification

Preferred but not required:

• CompTIA Linux or Linux Professional Institute (LPIC-1/LPIC-2) certification
• DISA ACAS Certified
• CompTIA CySA

Minimum Education Required:

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related IT discipline.
• ALLOWABLE SUBSTITUTION: An additional four (4) years of experience can be substituted for a BS or BA degree.
• Ability to pass a high-level background investigation