Posted 14 days ago
Cybersecurity Engineer II
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Engineers, deploys and sustains Government-approved SOC technologies, supporting integration, interoperability, and custom detection engineering, including developing and tuning analytics, dashboards, and automation for federal cybersecurity operations.
About this role
Electrosoft Services, LLC is an award-winning company that provides comprehensive technology-based solutions and services to federal customers. While cybersecurity is our specialty, we also focus on ICAM, Zero Trust, digital engineering and transformation, and enterprise AI and intelligent automation. We always seek to delight our customers, so we retain highly qualified employees and offer them meaningful work, growth opportunities, and work-life balance. What sets us apart from all other contractors is the sense of teamwork our employees feel – and the knowledge that outstanding effort is recognized and rewarded. The camaraderie we share emanates from Lunch & Learn sessions where we explore new ideas together, fun group activities ranging from escape rooms to miniature golf, and much, much more. If we’ve described you and your dream workplace, please apply and share in the many benefits and opportunities we offer.
Cybersecurity Engineer II
The Cybersecurity Engineer II performs cybersecurity engineering, integration, deployment, testing, configuration, and sustainment activities supporting customer SOC technologies.
The position supports the engineering and deployment of SOC tools, sensors, platforms, enclaves, and supporting capabilities, including technology research, evaluation, prototyping, integration, deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting. The Engineer II supports interoperability between data sources, cybersecurity tools, applications, workflows, sensors, and supporting infrastructure.
The Engineer II also supports detection engineering and custom SOC capability development, including development, testing, tuning, maintenance, and documentation of analytics, detections, dashboards, scripts, interfaces, automation playbooks, and related capabilities. The position validates developed capabilities prior to operational use and documents configurations, dependencies, limitations, and sustainment considerations.
Responsibilities
- Support cybersecurity architecture, engineering, research, evaluation, prototyping, integration, deployment, and sustainment.
- Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Government-approved SOC technologies.
- Support technical integration and interoperability between SOC tools, platforms, sensors, applications, workflows, and data sources.
- Develop engineering documentation, configuration information, test plans, diagrams, deployment records, and handoff documentation.
- Support Government technical change-control activities.
- Develop and test detections, dashboards, scripts, analytics, interfaces, automation, and custom SOC capabilities.
- Tune sensors, rules, alerts, and analytics to improve detection quality and reduce false positives.
- Test and validate capabilities before operational deployment.
- Support knowledge transfer and technical documentation for Contractor-supported capabilities.
Basic Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree.
- Experience: 3 years.
- Education substitution: 3 additional years of experience in lieu of degree.
- IAT II level certification
The actual base salary offered will be determined based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant years and depth of experience, skills and qualifications, education, certifications, internal equity, and the specific requirements of the position. Candidates should not assume they will be offered the top of the posted range, as compensation is based on the individual qualifications and overall fit for the role.
Electrosoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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