Cybersecurity Engineer

Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first. At Avint, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.

Currently, Avint is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Cybersecurity Engineer at our Herndon, VA office.

Position Responsibilities

• Perform data validation, analysis, warehousing, and data mining.
• Design, deploy, operate, and maintain CDM tools and new capabilities in enterprise on premise and Cloud environments including: ForeScout, McAfee ePO, Splunk, Tenable.sc, Vormetric, SailPoint, CyberArk, Elastic, IBM MaaS360, Workspace One UEM, Microsoft Endpoint, or equivalent security tools and products as required.
• Develop installation, configuration, and deployment methods including scripting, use of APIs, orchestration, automation, and database services to support the integration and configuration of CDM applications and security technologies.
• Work with architects, integration engineers, and developers to design solutions and improve data quality, security, and compliance or extend current capabilities and offerings to customers.
• Work closely with management support teams and operations teams to establish and document requirements to complete implementation and configuration tasks.
  
• Assess system designs to validate them against expected technical parameters.
• Create solutions to improve data quality, security, and compliance or extend current capabilities and offerings to customers.
• Identify, analyze, define, and coordinate user, customer, and stakeholder needs and translates them into enterprise hardware and software requirements.
• Identify and manage solution dependencies with other systems and elements of the enterprise IT infrastructure.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Perform functional, requirements and product analysis, assist to establish interface definitions and translate customer needs into hardware and software requirements.
• Accomplish extract, transform, and load operations to retrieve enrichment content from existing hardware, software, system boundary inventories.
• Develop and maintain detailed installation documentation and SOPs as required.
• Ability to troubleshoot broad-ranging issues (operating systems, network, firewall, COTS products, access, and authentication).
• Provide tool operations and maintenance support, Tier 3 customer support, and act as the subject matter expert.
• Provide Tier 3 support to customers and act as the subject matter expert.
• Provide mentoring and support to other engineers.
  

Requirements

Technical Areas of Experience:

• Experience with 3rd party tool integration using APIs and Database connections
• Ability to troubleshoot wide-ranging issues that cross team boundaries (OS, hardware, network, storage, firewall, COTS layers, customer access/authentication)
• In-depth experience with integrated security system architecture using general IT security concepts, network security and monitoring practices/methodologies
• Experience presenting material to senior management level and proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications
  
• Applicable Vendor Certified Administration certification is a plus
• Security+ and/or equivalent related IT Certification
• Effective communications skills, both oral and written
• Experience leading technical discussions with internal and external customers
• Experience in one or more scripting or programming language: Python, Java, UNIX shell, PowerShell
• Experience and use of the key technologies relevant to API and application configuration or integration including SSL, DHCP, Active Directory, LDAP, JDBC, ODBC
• Understanding and use of Microsoft SQL database, database definition, procedures, and advanced SQL
• Understanding of networking technologies including LAN/WAN, wireless, and VPN.
• Understanding of security design, network security architecture, network topology, and understanding of TCP/IP protocols; OSI model
• Experience with DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) a plus
• Experience with AWS Cloud, Azure Cloud, or Cloud implementations and environments
• Extensive experience analyzing information technology and system risk in complex environments and articulating results (verbal/reports) to all levels of management
• Ability to research and address information security issues as required as an authority on the subject
  
  

Qualifications:

• Strong analytical skills to enable effective troubleshooting
• 3-5 years of experience in Information Technology
• 1-2 years of hands-on experience with the design and implementation of cyber security tools
• Experience leading technical discussions with internal and external customers
• Service Now subject matter expert: experience with configuring SNOW and implementing best practice configurations to optimize the utilization of this tool
• Strong background in governance, FISMA reporting, NIST framework

Benefits

Joining Avint is a win-win proposition! You will feel the personal touch of a small business and receive BIG business benefits. From competitive salaries, full health, and generous PTO and Federal Holidays. Additionally, we encourage every Avint employee to further their professional development. To assist you in achieving your goals, we offer reimbursement for courses, exams, and tuition. Interested in a class, conference, program, or degree? Avint will invest in YOU and your professional development!

Avint is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.