Government Information Security Engineer

Job Description:

Our Government Information Techology and Security (GITS) Team is looking for a talented and motivated individual with strong technical skills and the ability to rapidly learn new technologies. We are growing our Hybrid Cloud solution suite to meet US Government requirements for data safeguarding.

Information Security Engineers within GITS are actively involved in the following:

• Identifies, develops, plans, implements, and supports enterprise security systems using Agile methodologies and DevOps principles to improve and grow our secure solutions to enhance Intel Federal's capabilities with a constant focus on security.
• Creates solutions in partnership with enterprise architecture to design security measures (from infrastructure to software) that safeguard sensitive data, protect confidentiality and availability, and enable compliance with security policies and regulatory requirements for the enterprise and USG regulations and standards.
• Partners with system engineers, network engineers, database administrators, and information security personnel in support, integration, development, and lifecycle management.
• Develops and validates functional requirements and identifies gaps or risks to meet business and security outcomes.
• Reviews health measures for various functional performance components of platform, applications, controls, and appliances and supports key security systems, responds to security events, and troubleshoots and proactively discovers security issues across the enterprise.
• Validates security controls are working as designed (validation and/or efficacy) to ensure effective security measures.
• Develops new and/or updates existing controls that limit the risk exposure for the company and optimizes security system performance.
• Researching new security and information technology trends in enterprise applications, networks, and systems to understand and drive strategic plans, forward engineering, upgrades, and changes while influencing vendors to drive bug resolution, product feature enhancement, and key security improvements.
• Works to identify, design, test, document, and implement internal process improvements such as automating manual processes, optimization of data delivery, elimination of technical debt, and support/administration of key security control systems.
• Supports lifecycle management of systems, software, and infrastructure.

Behavioral Traits

• Passion for Information Security.
• Customer service and stakeholder management skills, including experience in setting and managing user and stakeholder expectations is a must in this role. We partner closely with the Intel Federal business teams to ensure we can prioritize and deliver key IT solutions to the business.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, negotiating, influencing, facilitation, organizational, prioritization, decision making and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong team player who works both independently and collaboratively with peers and teams.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and / or schoolwork/classes/research.

Minimum Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, or related Information Technology field with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Information Security.
• 1+ year of experience working in an environment that supports Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) or International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) data.
• 3+ years of experience with script writing for automation and integration (e.g. PowerShell, .Net, Python, etc.)
• 1+ year of Identity Access Management experience. (e.g. Entra ID or other IAM tools)
• 1+ year Azure or AWS Hosted Cloud environment experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Track record of excellent customer Service and Support skills - Independently troubleshoots for successful problem resolution.
• MS Azure Government Cloud and Amazon Web Services GovCloud solutions deployment experience desired.
• 1+ year of experience working with NIST Special Publication 800-171 and/or 800-53 compliance standards.
• 1+ year of experience working with NIST 800- 171A readiness assessment procedures.
• Willingness to quickly ramp up on online data solutions - quickly applying trusted technologies across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience using Privilege Access Management (PAM) or similar tools.
• Windows and Linux OS and application operations support, administration, security configuration and monitoring.
• Security certifications are an advantage (CISSP, CISM, CEH, CCNA, etc.)
• Experience working with applications such as SCOM, BigFix, Azure Security Center and Antivirus configuration.
• Experience with Datacenter management operations such as servers/hardware handling, installation, configuration, decom and general support.
• Experience with Agile Scrum and/or Kanban project management methodologies.
• Scaled Scrum, SAFe, or other scaled Agile framework approaches to manage operations, engineering and development workloads.