Cyber Engineer

Cyber Engineer

woodcons.com

Seeking a Cyber Engineer to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities. The Cyber Engineer designs, develops, documents, analyzes, tests, integrates, debugs, conducts research and/or discovers and analyzes security flaws or vulnerabilities in software, networks, systems, and applications. The Cyber Engineer ensures system security needs are established and maintained for various objects/matters.

This is an entry-level position.

Security Clearance Requirements:

This position requires all candidates to be U.S. Citizens and possess an Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. Candidates must be able to receive DHS suitability prior to starting employment.

• Analyze output from various security devices and malware and incident reports to improve detection of and to minimize future incidents.
• Assess and analyze system security to identify and mitigate risks and vulnerabilities.
• Recommend countermeasures to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities.
• Prepare/Update documentation, including incident reports, security recommendations, etc.
• Assist in identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating the protection of critical cybersecurity infrastructure and key resources.
• Perform basic system design functions, including interpretive analyses, chart preparation and associated diagrams/enhancement plans.
• Test existing and new technologies.
• Review/analyze requested changes for equipment, technology and/or other factors/trends, which are planned for deployment in the customer space.
• Support the configuration and administration of cyber security tools and systems.

Required Education & Years of Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security, Information Security, Software Engineering or a related discipline is required and 2+ years of applicable experience in cyber security
  • Four (4) years of experience (for a total of six (6) or more years) may be substituted for a degree.

Required Skills

• 2+ years of applicable experience in cyber security
• Experience with commercial cyber tools and technologies
• Experience with standard security principles, policies, standards and industry best practices
• Experience and knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, topology, sockets and security) and web technologies (Internet security)
• Experience or knowledge of intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow and packet analysis
• Understanding and ideally experience with Windows or Linux/Unix operating systems (LINUX is used primarily for this position)
• Possesses or quickly develops an understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines

Desired Skills

• Experience with Security Event Incident Management (SEIM), Log Correlation and Network Behavior Anomaly detection systems
• Experience and/or familiarity with development languages such as: Java, Swing, JUnit, Perl, Python, HTML
• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with VMware and virtual machines
•  Ability to write custom tools and modify existing intrusion detection tools
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Experience with automated testing tools
• Experience with one or more of the following:
  • Security COTS integration
  • Security Incident Event Management
  • Insider Threat Monitoring
  • Operating System Hardening
  • Vulnerability Assessment testing
  • Identification and Authentication schemes
  • Public Key Infrastructure and Identity Management
  • Cross Domain Solutions
  • Computer Network Exploitation (CNE)
  • Computer Network Operations (CNO)
  • Malware Analysis
  • Reverse Software Engineering
  • Security engineering

WOOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.