Job Type: Full-Time

Clearance: Secret

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.

Job Summary:

The Cyber Engineer will design, develop, document, analyze, test, integrate, debug, conduct research, discover and analyze security flaws or vulnerabilities in software, networks, systems, and applications. The Cyber Engineer will also ensure system security needs are established and maintained for various objects/matters. This role is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical development and sustainment program that will design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.

Roles and Responsibilities

A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:

• 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.

Education Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security, Information Security, Software Engineering or a related discipline is required.
• 4 years of experience (for a total of 6 years) may be substituted for a degree.

Required Qualifications:

• 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 ideal 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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

Physical Requirements / Work Environment:

• Typical office environment.

Travel

• Not required.

Company Description

Castalia Systems is a proven business partner providing mission-critical solutions to the Federal Government. We provide cutting-edge solutions from Securing and Managing Data to Systems Engineering and Development. Castalia Systems is a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Design and Application.

With our vast knowledge of our customers' needs and relevant technology, our team will bring successful solutions to every mission. We are one-upping our competitors by providing premium IT solutions and platforms with cutting-edge technology so it’s so evident when you compare us with anyone.

Disclaimer

Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.