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Cybersecurity Engineer

Ignite IT - Innovation & Technology
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/7/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/5/2025
Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in emerging and secure technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while securing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation's safety, security, and prosperity. As a Cybersecurity Engineer you will architect, configure, and maintain a comprehensive DOD Security Stack within a CSSP Tier 3 environment. You will build and integrate enterprise security tools such as Splunk, CounterACT, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Trellix ESS, and ACAS to ensure seamless connectivity and functionality for analysts. You will drive tool modernization, conduct gap analysis, and develop new capabilities aligned with MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks to enhance cybersecurity posture across DOD networks.

Your Role:

  • Design, configure, and maintain a full DOD Security Stack, including tools like Splunk, CounterACT, Fortinet, Palo Alto firewalls, ESS Trellix, and ACAS
  • Ensure all security tools and connections are fully operational, enabling analysts to perform incident detection and response without disruption
  • Develop and deploy new security tool capabilities, modernize existing infrastructure, and drive innovation to stay ahead of evolving threats
  • Perform continuous assessments to identify gaps in the security architecture, aligning improvements with MITRE ATT&CK and DEFEND frameworks
  • Implement DOD STIGs across various systems and applications, ensuring alignment with RMF and CNSSI 1253
  • Integrate security tools and automate workflows to streamline operations and enhance efficiency across the security stack
  • Configure and maintain Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls, ensuring robust perimeter defenses and endpoint security through Trellix ESS
  • Work alongside Tier 1 and Tier 2 teams, providing Tier 3 expertise to implement and optimize long-term solutions
  • Develop and maintain detailed documentation, including network diagrams, security configurations, and operational procedures
  • Present system health, security posture, modernization plans, and identified gaps to senior leadership and stakeholders


Requirements

What's Required:

  • Education: Bachelor's degree or higher (relevant experience can substituted for Education)
  • Experience: 10 years of cyber security experience, including 5 years supporting DOD environments and national security systems
  • Certifications: DOD 8140 IAM Level II (CAP, CASP, CISM, CISSP, GSLC, CCISO)
  • Clearance: Active Top-Secret Clearance (SCI eligibility preferred)
  • Expertise in configuring and managing Splunk, Fortinet, Palo Alto, CounterACT, Trellix ESS, and ACAS
  • Hands-on experience with RMF, NIST 800-53, CNSSI 1253, and DOD STIGs
  • Strong understanding of network architecture, firewall configurations, and endpoint protection solutions
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation for security tool integration
  • Experience conducting gap analysis and modernization planning based on MITRE ATT&CK and DEFEND frameworks
  • Experience briefing senior leadership and collaborating with cross-functional teams

Preferred:

  • Additional cybersecurity certifications at IAM-III level


Benefits

  • 401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
  • Health Insurance - 3 plans to select from
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Short Term Disability
  • Long Term Disability
  • AD&D
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Training
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible schedule
  • Flexible spending account
  • Referral program
  • Paid Legal Plan
  • and more...

Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance

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