What are the responsibilities and job description for the Blue Team Engineer position at AERMOR LLC?
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Job Type: Full-Time
Clearance Level: Secret
AERMOR is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Blue Team Engineer to join our cybersecurity defense team. The ideal candidate will possess a robust background in system hardening, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and cybersecurity frameworks. This role focuses on strengthening the organization's security posture by proactively identifying and mitigating threats, ensuring compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) cybersecurity standards, and implementing advanced security controls across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Job Type: Full-Time
Clearance Level: Secret
AERMOR is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Blue Team Engineer to join our cybersecurity defense team. The ideal candidate will possess a robust background in system hardening, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and cybersecurity frameworks. This role focuses on strengthening the organization's security posture by proactively identifying and mitigating threats, ensuring compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) cybersecurity standards, and implementing advanced security controls across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform system hardening across Linux and Windows environments, ensuring alignment with security best practices and DoD compliance standards.
- Manage and secure networking and virtualization infrastructures, identifying vulnerabilities and enhancing their defensive posture.
- Implement and enforce security controls across network, hardware, and software systems, ensuring comprehensive coverage of security requirements.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments using tools such as Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS), analyze findings, and lead remediation efforts including patch management.
- Apply knowledge of DoD cybersecurity policies, frameworks, and security tools to enforce regulatory compliance and enhance security architectures.
- Utilize cybersecurity frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE D3FEND to analyze attack patterns, improve defenses, and inform threat mitigation strategies.
- Conduct threat intelligence analysis to identify emerging threats and recommend proactive countermeasures.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement security measures that align with business and mission objectives.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in one of the following disciplines:
- Information Systems
- Information Technology
- Computer Science
- Computer Engineering
- Must possess a DoD 8570.01-M Baseline Certification, with a minimum of IAT Level III.
- A combined total of ten (10) years of full-time professional experience across the following disciplines:
- System hardening practices and methodologies.
- Networking and virtualization environments.
- DoD cybersecurity policies and security tools implementation.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE D3FEND.
- Threat intelligence gathering, analysis, and identifying emerging threats.
- Performing vulnerability assessments utilizing ACAS.
- Remediation of vulnerabilities, including applying vendor patches across Linux and Windows systems.
- Design, implementation, configuration, and enforcement of security controls on networks, hardware, and software devices.
