Senior Microsoft Security Engineer - Arlington, United States - Federal Staffing Solutions Inc.

Description

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We are looking for a Senior Microsoft Security Engineer to work in Alexandria, VA supporting our client.

Salary: $163,000

Clearance: Public Trust

Must have CyberArk experience

Requirements:

• BS degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or related field and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience with a focus on cybersecurity OR Masters with 10-12 years of prior relevant experience.
  
• 10 years of experience with Microsoft/Office 365, including at least 1-2 years of experience with securely configuring/engineering Microsoft/Office 365
  
• 10 years of experience with Microsoft Azure, including at least 1-2 years of experience with securely configuring/engineering Microsoft Azure
  
• Expertise with Azure services and components to build, manage, and maintain Azure Cloud environments
  
• Experience deploying, maintain and troubleshooting Microsoft/Office 365 at an enterprise level
  
• Extensive automation experience with PowerShell and Shell Scripting for automating repeatable tasks and installations
  
• Extensive knowledge of server operations and maintenance
  
• Extensive experience managing enterprise networks
  
• Understanding of cloud terminology, architecture, and tools to include installing, provisioning and monitoring.
  
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining tools such as Tanium, Nessus, Forescout, and Cyberark in a hybrid-cloud environments
  

The following Microsoft certifications are preferred but not required. - MS 365 Certified: Security Administrator - Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer (Associate) - Candidate must also possess one of the below certifications: - CompTIA: CASP - SANS: GCIH, GCWN, GISF, GISP, GSSP, GICSP, GSSP - Carnegie Mellon: SEI - ISC2: CCSP, CISSP, CSSLP, SSCP - Cisco: CCNP, CCNP Security, CCIE Security - EC_Council: CEH, ECSP - Red Hat: RHCA, RHCE - Splunk: Certified Splunk Architect

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience automating management tasks with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
  
• Experience working among different Cloud Provider environments (Azure)
  
• Experience developing in Powershell
  
• Experience working with SIEM tools such as Splunk to ingest, normalize, store, and maintain data from endpoint, network, and application sourcetypes.
  
  

Essential Requirements: US Citizenship is required. Public Trust

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will regularly sit, walk, stand and climb stairs and steps. May require walking long distance from parking to work station. Occasionally, movement that requires twisting at the neck and/or trunk more than the average person, squatting/ stooping/kneeling, reaching above the head, and forward motion will be required. The employee will continuously be required to repeat the same hand, arm, or finger motion many times. Manual and finger dexterity are essential to this position. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, depth perception and telling differences among colors. The employee must be able to communicate through speech with clients and public. Hearing requirements include conversation in both quiet and noisy environments. Lifting may require floor to waist, waist to shoulder, or shoulder to overhead movement of up to 20 pounds. This position demands tolerance for various levels of mental stress

Job Duties:

• Conceptualize, design, build, and maintain current and future customer-supported tools and platforms
  
• Manage multiple assignments and work independently with minimal oversight
  
• Produce system design documents.
  
• Support architectural analysis of cyber security features and existing system related to future needs and trends
  
• Review and provide input to system requirements based on cybersecurity posture
  
• Compile industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs
  
• Provide broad-based experience in IT Service Management and apply the experience to specific cyber security initiatives relating to system design, development, and operations and maintenance
  
• Employ measures to ensure the deployed infrastructure is secure and available
  
• Advise and assist team members to deploy and configure collection services and tools
  
• Develop processes to evaluate and improve all operating systems, hardware, software, and firmware solutions
  
• Work closely with stakeholders to solve technical problems at the network, system and application levels
  
• Collaborate, coordinate, and build relationships with customer representatives and external stakeholders
  
• Conduct periodic architectural reviews of installed sensors to assess effectiveness and propose optimal installation alternatives as required
  
• Draft technical documentation, reports, and presentations as needed for customer or internal use.
  
• Manage physical and virtual infrastructure and troubleshoot problems to successful completion
  
• Create and manage shell scripts for task automation and log extraction
  
• Develop solutions to complex technical issues
  
• Provide follow-up reports (technical findings, feedback, resolution steps taken) for root cause analysis, engineering technical assessments, and process improvement initiatives
  
• Provide training and documentation for customer and internal teams
  
• Review and approve documentation and diagrams (e.g., system specifications).
  
• Identify tasks and issues that may have an impact on service levels or schedules and provide realistic schedule and cost estimates
  
• Maintain a current working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, security best practices, and technical standards.
  
• Communicate with other technical leads, IT groups, and customer reps so they understand all aspects of proposed changes/solutions.
  

Equal Opportunity Employer