Arkime Engineer (TS/SCI CI Poly)

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation's top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

This role requires someone working onsite in DC/Reston/Quantic/College Park. A TS/SCI CI Poly is required.

We are seeking a highly skilled Arkime (formerly Moloch) Implementation & Sustainment Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and enhance our enterprise packet-capture and deep network visibility capability. The ideal candidate combines hands-on Arkime expertise with strong Zero Trust engineering principles to support threat detection, forensics, segmentation, and continuous monitoring across a complex, distributed environment. You will directly improve the organization's ability to detect threats early, respond faster, and understand network behavior at scale—ensuring that identity-driven, least-privilege policies are backed by deep telemetry and forensic depth

This role will drive full lifecycle engineering—from architecture and deployment to tuning, integrations, sustainment, and long-term optimization—while partnering with cross-functional security, network, and platform teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and configure Arkime clusters, capture nodes, viewer nodes, and storage subsystems.
• Design packet capture strategies aligned to network topology, mission requirements, and Zero Trust monitoring needs.
• Develop and automate deployment workflows using scripts, orchestration tools, and configuration management.
• Integrate Arkime with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and threat intel platforms to enrich detection and investigation workflows.
• Conduct regular tuning of parsers, views, tags, and sessions to support detection engineering and threat hunting.
• Perform version upgrades, patching, configuration changes, data lifecycle management, and log retention optimization.
• Align Arkime data capture with Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) telemetry requirements.
• Support development of visibility baselines, identity-aware policies, and segmentation enforcement strategies.
• Work with network engineering, cloud engineering, and security operations to ensure end-to-end telemetry coverage.
• Develop dashboards, queries, workflows, and documentation for SOC, detection engineers, and incident responders.
• Provide training, playbooks, and technical expertise to internal engineering and operations teams.
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in cybersecurity, network security engineering, or security operations.
• Strong background in packet analysis, PCAP management, DPI technologies, and network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, etc.).
• Familiarity with Suricata, Zeek, or other packet/flow analysis platforms.
• Experience engineering within a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), including segmentation, continuous verification, and identity-centric access.
• Proficiency with Linux systems administration, containers, and distributed systems.
• Experience leveraging SIEM/SOAR platforms and integrating packet telemetry with detection workflows.
• Familiarity with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, scripts) and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• Associate's degree and 5 years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, Bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, or Master's degree and 1 year of experience supporting IT projects and activities. Years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Technician (IAT) Level II Certification, including Security CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, SSCP, CySA , GICSP, or CND Certification
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570.01-M Cybersecurity Service Provider - Infrastructure Support Certification, including CEH, CHFI, CFR, Cloud , or CND certification within 30 days of start date
  
  

Additional Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining Arkime/Moloch in production environments.
• Experience with cloud networking and traffic inspection in AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Experience with Elastic Stack or similar search/index pipelines.
• Background supporting regulated or high-security environments (FedRAMP, DoD, IC, PCI, etc.).
• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, GCIH, GCIA, GNFA, GCED).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate technical findings into clear operational guidance.
• Comfortable leading discussions with engineers, analysts, architects, and leadership.
  
  

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Why GuidePoint?

GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1000 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 4,200 customers.

Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company's success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.

Some added perks….

• Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family) and GPS will contribute in one lump sum: ($500 per EE annually / $1000 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
• Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
• 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
• Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
• Pet Benefit Option