Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

About the job

Job Summary

ITS, LLC. is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to join our Colorado Springs team. The Cybersecurity Engineer consults on IT and cyber defensive architecture and technologies. They will provide technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments. The Cybersecurity Engineer will establish goals and plans that meet project objectives. They will have domain and expert technical knowledge. They will direct and control activities for the client, having overall responsibility for fiscal management, methods, and staffing to ensure that technical requirements are fulfilled. Interactions involve client negotiations and interfacing with senior management.

Key Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Assesses assigned Cyber domain to understand the mission, architecture, and threat thoroughly.
• Advises on technical design and implementation of Defensive Cyber Operations capability required to effectively protect, detect, and respond to cyber threats and attack.
• Research cyber defense technology options for best fit based on mission, architecture, and threat.
• Design, implement, configure, and/or tune Cyber Defense technology.
• Author's documentation to include SOPs, checklists, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, crew binders, etc.
• Adapt technologies to meet the best fit for the mission architecture and threat. Technologies include SIEM, vulnerability assessment, discovery, infrastructure (firewall, IPS/IDS, proxy, network capture), host-based security, PCAP, penetration testing/external assessment tools, forensics, etc.
• Develop and tune cyber tools and technology like ELK, Kafka, Suricata, BRO, Cuckoo, Yara, etc.
• IAT III Certification (REQUIRED)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of professional technical experience (these years may be in conjunction with the following). Experience years must come from at least 2 of the following areas:
• Container or virtual environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, AWS)
• In-band and out-of-band test access points for network traffic collection and aggregation (e.g., Gigamon)
• Data storage solutions (e.g., NFS storage, distributed storage, Ceph Ruck storage, etc.)
• Data-analysis toolsets (e.g., Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, Splunk, etc.)
• Agile frameworks for software development
• Linux operating systems (Red Hat, Kali, etc.)
• Windows operating systems
• Network Infrastructure
• Security applications (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response [SOAR], Security Information and Events Management [SIEM], Intrusion Detection Systems [IDS], etc.)
  
  

Education/Experience

• Five years of technical experience in cyber-defense or cybersecurity-related fields (e.g., engineering, networking, systems integration, solutions, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in a cyber-related discipline (e.g., network engineering, computer science, information systems, software engineering, programming, etc.).
  
  

Clearance Requirement

• Top Secret
  
  

Salary Range

• $130,000 - 150,000 Annually
  
  

Salary Note

• In compliance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the salary range for this role is based on education, experience, and responsibilities.
  
  

ITS, LLC. is an equal-opportunity employer to include veterans and individuals with disabilities.

U.S. Citizenship is required.