Role Overview

About the Position

The mission of the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Information Systems Security Officer and their team is to make information security cultural and programmatic within the institute to enable NHGRI to succeed in its research mission.

What you will do

The Lead Security Engineer is responsible for supporting the IT Security tools, Vulnerability management, malware response, and compliance related activities of NHGRI. They will ensure our security tools are working as intended, assist Endpoint and Systems engineers with securing NHGRI systems, and provide security guidance to users and other IT staff.

Responsibilities:

• Act as point of escalation and provide guidance for security engineering team
• Work with NHGRI ISSO and NHGRI Security team to remediate server and workstation vulnerabilities
• Work with NHGRI ISSO and NIH IRT for security incidents by ensuring machine remediation and by reporting information as required back to the IRT
• Assist operations engineering staff with security system administration tasks
• Constantly evaluate processes and procedures being implemented at NIH and NHGRI, providing recommendations to improve IT security while balancing end user functionality.
• Implement security best practices across the NHGRI IT environment.
• Design, update, and modify security documentation.
• Manage response and remediation activities for penetration tests

If you are passionate about IT security and have the required skills and experience, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team of dedicated IT professionals.

Job Type: Full-time

Required Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with a strong focus on customer service

• Ability to collaborate with other teams to improve security across an enterprise

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training and/or relevant IT work experience

• Experience troubleshooting Antivirus and other security tools

• Strong experience with Tenable

• Strong experience with Linux, Windows, and macOS

• Strong understanding of vulnerability management

• Experience configuring and managing Splunk servers, data ingestion, and reporting

What’s In It For You

• You’ll join a growth company offering a competitive base salary, bonus structure and benefits
• Join a growing company with a large upside in new customer growth
• A long term, advancing career path in service, sales or management
• A culture that values its team members and the roles they play in our growth
• Join a team that believes in keeping companies safe with clear paths to success

Required Education

• Education: Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience and training.

Good To Have

• Functional knowledge of scripting in Unix/Windows environment: Bash, Perl, Python, VBScript
• Strong understanding of network and server security methods and implementation
• Strong understanding of vulnerability management for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems
• Strong troubleshooting abilities on Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Experience with SCCM, JAMF, and SaltStack
• Experience with Windows, Mac, and Linux CIS baselines
• Experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure clouds
• Experience with Tenable Security Center
• Experience with SSL certificate management and issuance
• Experience with Federal PKI
• Experience with GitHub
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Experience with Synack
• Experience with Vulnerability disclosure programs
• Experience with Symantec Data loss prevention
• Experience with Absolute
• Experience with Enterprise risk management
• Experience vetting software for enterprise use
  NIH Experience
• Experience securing a research environment
• CompTIA Security+ or other relevant certifications