Cyber Engineer - Principal I - Novel Applications of Vital Information

Residency Status: ALL Candidates Must Be A U.S. Citizen

Clearance: Candidates Must have an Active Secret clearance and the ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance.

Time Type: Full-Time, Daytime Schedule - Remote

Relocation Fees: No

Company Overview:

NAOVI is a premier technology services company that provides solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Information Management and Systems Integration. NAOVI is a business that combines experience, creativity, flexibility, pragmatism, and cost-effective solutions in order to deliver measurable business value to our clients.

Headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, NAOVI employs engineers, analysts, IT specialists and other professionals who strive to be the best at everything they do.

Novel Applications of Vital, Inc. (NAOVI) is an AA/EEO Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.

Job Description

NAOVI is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer applies current analytical and logical thinking to the design, architecture, development, evaluation, testing, and integration of computer systems, appliances, and networks to elevate the security posture of the program. The Cyber Security Engineer may be involved with commercial, custom and/or government computer product vendors in the design, evaluation, and architecture of state-of-the-art secure GOTS/COTS applications, operating systems, networks, databases, and custom-built technology. Attention to detail, honesty, out of the box thinking with a problem-solving mindset, be able to work under pressure, and be able to deliver on tight delivery schedules are very much desired.

Primary responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for an engineering team implementing differing technologies to include Azure and/or AWS Cloud, firewalls, web application firewalls, VPNs, DNS, Data Loss Prevention, IDS/IPS, and proxies, to name a few.
• Develops security systems for any manual or automated systems environments which comprises on-prem and Cloud based systems.
• Responsible for ensuring the protection of organization data against unauthorized disclosure, accidental or intentional loss of data, and unauthorized modification. Lead cyber security teams working with a variety of different tools and appliances, security challenges, and troubleshooting various complex issues.
• Administer the management of security appliances, tools, products, and aspects of the information system and perform day-to-day security operations, as well as Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of the system.
• Provide security tools administration, management, troubleshooting, and testing.
• Experience and/or familiarity with the following network protection devices: Firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow and packet analysis.
• Experience with Cloud services offered by Microsoft or Amazon. Azure Sentinel (SIEM) is the most desired of the two.
• Support Projects and Project management personnel throughout the full software development lifecycle.
• Manage technology roadmaps with each product and propose briefs and reports to elaborate on recommended actions based on best practices.
• Perform full product testing to the length of the products capabilities as required by the customer and the program.
• Develop capabilities according to customer requirements and NIST, DHS, and Government guidelines and regulations.

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship.
• ATTENTION: This position may require shift work.
• Active Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability.
• 8+ years of experience engineering, operating, and managing layered security integration for on premise or cloud/private cloud environments.
• 4+ years management and implementing a Tenable environment.
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience working with AWS or Azure infrastructure, services in a security focused role.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS & Azure architectural concepts.
• Experience engineering, operating, and managing layered security and SIEM integration.
• Demonstrated experience handling incidents across multiple operating systems.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with one or more of the following:
  o RSA Security Analytics (NetWitness)
  o Symantec Bluecoat
  o ForeScout CounterAct
  o McAfee ePO
  o Cisco FirePower (SourceFire)
  o RedSeal, SecureSphere Imperva
  o Tenable
  o Azure Sentinel
  o TAPs
  o Cloud technologies,
  o Project Management processes to include SAFe and Agile.

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant work experience. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Desired Certification(s):

• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Windows/Linux Admin, Azure Sentinel or Other Cloud SIEM, CISSP, Security+, Network+, Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP).
• Vendor specific certification for the aforementioned products or similar certification.