Linux Security Engineer

Are you looking to elevate your cyber career? Your technical skills? Your opportunity for growth? Deloitte's Government and Public Services Cyber Practice (GPS Cyber Practice) is the place for you! Our GPS Cyber Practice helps organizations create a cyber minded culture and become stronger, faster, and more innovative. You will become part of a team that advises, implements, and manages solutions across five verticals: Strategy, Defense and Response; Identity; Infrastructure; Data; and Application Security. Our dynamic team offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge cyber security tools and grow both vertically and horizontally at an accelerated rate. Join our cyber team and elevate your career.

Work you'll do

• Implement risk management programs for our federal clients by utilizing NIST, RMF, and FISMA compliance frameworks.
• Enhance cyber awareness with clients and project teams.
• Work alongside federal clients to help them mitigate risk with the use of continuous monitoring and incident response.
• Establish security controls to ensure protection of client systems.
• Implement cutting edge security tools for our federal clients.

The team

Deloitte's Government and Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes-is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of more than 15,000 professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

At Deloitte, we believe cyber is about starting things-not stopping them-and enabling the freedom to create a more secure future. Cyber Strategy, Defense and Response (SDR) focuses on helping federal clients design and implement transformational enterprise security programs with an emphasis on defending against, recovering from, and mitigating major cyberattacks. If you're seeking a career that increases cyber awareness, utilizes risk management programs, and develops strategies for cyber defense and response, then the Cyber SDR offering at Deloitte is for you.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required
• At least 1+ year's experience in the following:

• Working administrative knowledge using IT security technology such as Snort, SourceFire, and Firepower
• Experience in orchestrating deployments of custom RockyLinux/CentOS/Redhat/Oracle 8/7 Operation System
• Experience in applying recommended OS Patches, Kernel upgrades to keep server operating systems up to date
• Automating repeatable tasks with the help of scripting (Python/Ansible preferred)
• Updating security tools on Linux systems and configuring and deploying new open-source and commercial security tools on Linux systems
• Troubleshooting Linux Servers and applications
• Utilizing routers, switches and network VLANs and VPN configurations

• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. without assistance
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required clearance for this role
• Ability to travel 15%, on average, based on work you do and the clients and the industries/sectors you serve
• Must be available to work on-site in Columbia, SC for 5 days a week.

Preferred:

• Experience in Administration of Snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Sensors; Perform analysis, design, and development of signature for the IDS sensors; Ability to tune, configure and implement detection logic in open source Snort Sensors
• Experience with developing strategies to improve operational workflow and providing recommendations to overall system deployment and design
• Experience with performing administrative and engineering work on Security Operation Center tools such as log collectors and EDRs
• Prior professional services or federal consulting experience
• Certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CEH, CISSP)

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