We are seeking a Senior IT Security Engineer for IMMEDIATE HIRE to support our NIGC contract. The Senior IT Security Engineer must provide a senior level IT security operations support and will perform activities with minimal supervision and guidance.

What You'll Be Doing Day to Day

• ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Apply knowledge and skills of information systems security principles, NIST guidelines, FISMA, CISA, and federal directives, to conduct ongoing security assessments of installed systems and networks with a view to recommend corrective actions.
  • Perform systems engineering and maintenance activities according to established standards.
  • Apply knowledge of Networking Technologies including LAN, MS Azure, and Wireless management in security solutions implementation and troubleshooting. d. Develop agency’s security operations capabilities by evaluating current strategies and pursuing alignment with best practices.
  • Ensure the effective configuration and daily operations of tools that support the agency’s cybersecurity strategy. Such tools include SEIM integration, Syslog, Network Detection and Response (NDR), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Firewalls, M365 Cloud security, Defender for Cloud, and Continuous Diagnostics & Mitigation (CDM) capabilities.
  • In collaboration with CISO and Privacy Officer develop plans, techniques, and measurable objectives to improve the development of cybersecurity and privacy measures that meet agency’s goals for protecting sensitive information.
  • Collaborate with other teams on the integration of agency Applications and IT services to consider security implications and ensure that AGENCY security requirements are met.
  • Maintain threat awareness and monitor agency information systems for exploits and any suspicious activities. Analyze aggregated logs from security tools and perform regular threat hunting activities.
  • Develop Security Orchestration and Automation capabilities.
  • Adhere to Continuous Monitoring practices to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented security controls and execute proactive threat hunting activities to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of agency information systems.
  • Develop detection and response configuration policies to increase automation. l. Execute Incident Response activities to include all associated actions according to the agency incident response plan.
  • Develop Incident handling procedures.
  • Validate that sufficient and relevant information is captured and retained from security tools to support actionable security awareness and incident investigations.
  • Collect security operations performance and agency security posture management metrics and prepare agency threat reports to inform risk management decisions.
  • Develop and maintain accurate security operations documentation including the preparation of standard operating procedures for recurring tasks.

Level of Security Clearance: Public Trust [Required]