TA2-26H-Security Engineer (SME) - Access Management & Network Se

Description

Supports the DHS Enterprise Engineering Division within the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) is responsible for the architecture, design, engineering, Tier 3 operations support, maintenance, and management of the network and security infrastructure. This program portfolio includes management and oversight of the technical infrastructure and security tools, sensors, servers, and data storage devices to support the DHS Network Operations Security Center (NOSC) Cyber (SOC) and other DHS stakeholders and Components.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Perform daily troubleshooting for users requesting access to numerous enterprise servers and applications.
• Assist team in project planning and implementation; including network communication, change requests, vendor specifications, department baseline or STIGs.
• Maintain the reporting of dashboards, vulnerability scanning rules, ticketing system, and communication of all team tools.
• Maintaining and improving network and security capabilities to include modernization and emerging technologies.
• Provide security engineering and support for NOSC hardware, software, and networking technologies currently present or to be added to the infrastructure.
• Ensuring the security tools and infrastructure are available and operational from the perimeter down to the endpoints and data itself
• Providing support to maintaining and maturing security tool architecture for security operations monitoring
• Develop and maintain installation, configuration, and security procedures.
• Responsible for daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, logs, systems and key processes.
• Establish working relationships with vendors to ensure alignment of current and future set government requirement and emerging capabilities.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications / Requirements

• At least 8 years of security/network engineering and architecture experience (NOC, SOC) in supporting, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting within a large enterprise security environment.
• Technical acumen to include extensive experience deploying, managing, and maintaining a wide range of security tools.
• Must be resourceful in multitasking tasks and projects and communicating in a dynamic network.
• Must have practical knowledge of network and security tools and how it is administered and integrated into a SOC/NOC environment.
• Working knowledge of Zero Trust architectures supported by Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) and Cloud Secure Gateway (CSG) technologies.

Experience/Years of Relevant Experience:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and work independently.
• Required Experience 8 years.

Education:

• BA / BS in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity Management field

Certifications (Not Required):

• CISSP (Certified Information Security Systems Professional)
• CompTIA Security+
• ITIL Foundations
• Experience with Agile-based project management (primary Kanban)

Software/Hardware Experience Desired

• CyberArk, CA Privileged Access Manager (PAM), Zscaler, Splunk Enterprise, Crowdstrike, Ansible, Red Hat, Linux, Tenable, AWS and Azure Cloud

Clearance:

• Must be able to attain/maintain DHS EOD clearance.
• Must be a US Citizen and pass a background check.
• Maintain applicable security clearance(s) at the level required by the client and/or applicable certification(s) as requested by Softek and/or required by Softek's Client(s)/Customer(s).

Location:

• Location: DHS HQ (TSA Springfield, VA), or Stennis Data Center
• Telework Authorized, Remote Hybrid