Cyber Engineer

CYBER ENGINEER

DULLES, VIRGINIA

PassionHR is an HR consulting firm committed to serving our client's goals. This often involves business-to-business recruiting to hire, manage, and retain top-talent employees. We take pride in our work, performing each task with competence, confidence, and integrity.

PassionHR is seeking to hire an experienced Cyber Engineer in Dulles, Virginia to design, develop, document, analyze, test, integrate, debug, conduct research and/or discover and analyze security flaws or vulnerabilities in software, networks, systems, and applications. The Cyber Engineer ensures system security needs are established and maintained for various objects/ matters.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Analyze output from various security devices and malware and incident reports to improve detection of and to minimize future incidents

Assess and analyze system security to identify and mitigate risks and vulnerabilities

Recommend countermeasures to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities

Prepare/ update documentation, including incident reports and security recommendations

Assist in identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating the protection of critical cybersecurity infrastructure and key resources

Perform basic system design functions, including interpretive analyses, chart preparation, and associated diagrams/ enhancement plans

Test existing and new technologies

Review/ analyze requested changes for equipment, technology, and/ or other factors/ trends, which are planned for deployment in the customer space

Support the configuration and administration of cyber security tools and systems

REQUIREMENTS

U.S. Citizenship

Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

2 years of applicable experience in cyber security

Experience with commercial cyber tools and technologies

Experience with standard security principles, policies, standards, and industry best practices

Experience and knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, topology, sockets and security) and web technologies (Internet security)

Experience or knowledge of intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow, and packet analysis

Understanding and ideally experience with Windows or Linux/Unix operating systems (LINUX is used primarily for this position)

Possesses or quickly develops an understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines

Bachelor's degree in cyber security, information security, software engineering, or a related discipline is required. (Four years of experience, for a total of six or more years, may be substituted for a degree.)

DESIRED SKILLS

Experience with Security Event Incident Management (SEIM), Log Correlation, and Network Behavior Anomaly detection systems

Experience and/ or familiarity with development languages such as: Java, Swing, JUnit, Perl, Python, HTML

Demonstrated experience and/ or familiarity with VMware and virtual machines

Ability to write custom tools and modify existing intrusion detection tools

Experience with Agile development methodology

Experience with automated testing tools

Experience with one or more of the following:

•Security COTS integration

•Security Incident Event Management

•Insider Threat Monitoring

•Operating System Hardening

•Vulnerability Assessment testing

•Identification and authentication schemes

•Public Key Infrastructure and Identity Management

•Cross Domain Solutions

•Computer Network Exploitation (CNE)

•Computer Network Operations (CNO)

•Malware Analysis

•Reverse Software Engineering

•Security engineering

Equal Opportunity Employer