What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Torq/SOAR Engineer position at Electronic Consulting Services, Inc (ECS Federal)?
Job Description
Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. TORQ/SOAR Engineer to join our team in Arlington, VA (Hybrid). This position is contingent upon contract award.
The Sr. TORQ/SOAR Engineer serves as a technical leader and trusted authority for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) using TORQ. This role drives the design, deployment, and optimization of TORQ workflows in complex enterprise environments, enabling clients to automate security operations, incident response, and threat mitigation across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and containerized platforms. The engineer advises clients on automation strategy, operational best practices, and integration with enterprise security tools, ensuring efficient, reliable, and scalable SOAR implementations.
Join our Managed Security Services (MSSP) team at ECS, a leading provider of cybersecurity, cloud, AI, data, and enterprise transformation solutions. This is a high-impact position where you'll collaborate with experts, work directly with strategic clients-including U.S. Federal agencies-and contribute to strengthening security operations through automation and orchestration.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Skills
Desired Skills
ECS Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.
Everforth ECS is the federal segment of Everforth , a $4B global organization with over 10,000 employees. Our nearly 3,500 professionals deliver advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, serving defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.
Our work powers mission-critical outcomes, strengthens technology partnerships, and creates meaningful opportunities for our people. We are defined by a commitment to excellence in delivery, a culture of innovation, and an environment where talent can thrive and grow.
We value:
Meet the challenge. Make a difference with Everforth ECS!
Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. TORQ/SOAR Engineer to join our team in Arlington, VA (Hybrid). This position is contingent upon contract award.
The Sr. TORQ/SOAR Engineer serves as a technical leader and trusted authority for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) using TORQ. This role drives the design, deployment, and optimization of TORQ workflows in complex enterprise environments, enabling clients to automate security operations, incident response, and threat mitigation across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and containerized platforms. The engineer advises clients on automation strategy, operational best practices, and integration with enterprise security tools, ensuring efficient, reliable, and scalable SOAR implementations.
Join our Managed Security Services (MSSP) team at ECS, a leading provider of cybersecurity, cloud, AI, data, and enterprise transformation solutions. This is a high-impact position where you'll collaborate with experts, work directly with strategic clients-including U.S. Federal agencies-and contribute to strengthening security operations through automation and orchestration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and deployment of TORQ SOAR solutions, including playbooks, automation workflows, and incident response orchestration.
- Develop and maintain graph-based or agentic automation workflows while optimizing performance through context management and advanced automation logic.
- Integrate TORQ with enterprise security tools such as Elastic Stack, Splunk, CrowdStrike, cloud workloads, and containerized platforms.
- Deploy and manage TORQ on platforms including public cloud, on-premises, and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Leverage automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible) to streamline deployment, maintenance, and operational tasks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure operations.
- Provide hands-on support, troubleshooting, and fine-tuning of TORQ playbooks and automation workflows.
- Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering knowledge sharing and skill development.
- Produce and maintain documentation reflecting best practices, integrations, and deployment architectures.
- Stay current on competing SOAR technologies (e.g., Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Siemplify, Demisto) and provide guidance on comparative capabilities or migration strategies.
- Deliver operational updates, status reporting, and technical recommendations to clients and ECS management.
Required Skills
- Outstanding verbal and written communication abilities.
- Able and willing to support domestic or international on-site travel with customers or at ECS offices. Any travel will be short in duration and well-planned.
- Possess and maintain a U.S. Passport.
- Must have a Secret Clearance, at minimum.
Desired Skills
- Significant real-world experience developing and deploying software in production environments.
- Hands-on proficiency with TORQ SOAR, including workflow design, playbooks, and automation. TORQ certification is preferred.
- Experience with Java, Go, or Python for scripting and workflow automation.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring/observability technologies.
- Proven ability to take initiative, scope work, make meaningful design decisions, and drive projects to completion.
- Excellent testing practices, including automated testing and monitoring to ensure workflow reliability.
- Strong understanding of enterprise security operations, detection and response processes, and integrations with SIEMs, endpoint security (CrowdStrike, Elastic), and cloud-native telemetry sources.
- Strong mentoring and collaboration skills, capable of leading teams and sharing expertise.
- Exposure to security automation for U.S. Federal or enterprise clients is a plus.
ECS Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.
Everforth ECS is the federal segment of Everforth , a $4B global organization with over 10,000 employees. Our nearly 3,500 professionals deliver advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, serving defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.
Our work powers mission-critical outcomes, strengthens technology partnerships, and creates meaningful opportunities for our people. We are defined by a commitment to excellence in delivery, a culture of innovation, and an environment where talent can thrive and grow.
We value:
- Attracting and developing top talent and high-performing teams
- Fostering a culture that is engaging, accountable, and mission-driven
Meet the challenge. Make a difference with Everforth ECS!