Cloud Security Engineer - Arlington, VA, United States - Saliense

Description

Saliense has a new opportunity for a Cloud Security Engineer (AWS) to support the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA
This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days/week onsite in Arlington, VA
The Engineer will assist the Office of Naval Research establish an information technology network operation center (NSOC)
The Cloud Security Engineer will directly support the Network Operations Team working in collaboration with the Information Assurance (IA)/Cybersecurity/Computer Network Defense (CND) Team to perform network operations functions in support of the security information and event management (
SIEM) tasks

Duties & Responsibilities:

AWS:

• Manage AWS accounts, including the setup and configuration of EC2 instances and RDS databases.
• Familiarity with AWS Cloudwatch and dashboarding, S3 bucket administration, Systems manager for automation of patching and maintenance tasks, AWS backup configuration, backups and restores.
• Create documentation for infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure repeatability and maintainability.
• Basic AWS Networking skills, such as VPC configurations, creating subnets, security groups, and tagging

System Engineering:

• Manage and maintain on-premises systems and server infrastructure as needed.
• Participate in system design, capacity planning, and disaster recovery planning.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering and IA teams to deploy and configure new systems and services

SIEM Management:

• Configure and maintain the McAfee
  SIEM platform to monitor and analyze security events and incidents.
• Develop and maintain correlation rules, alerts, and dashboards to detect and respond to security threats effectively.
• Collaborate with security analysts to investigate and mitigate security incidents based on
  SIEM alerts.
• Conduct regular
  SIEM system upgrades and ensure compliance with security standards and best practices

Required Education:
Bachelor's
Degree Required Experience: 10+ years of experience related to network engineering and security
McAfee Suite of products, Splunk Remedy ticketing system, and ITSM framework
TCP/IP, Computer networking, routing, and switching
Firewall and IDS/IPS protocols
Windows and UNIX and Linux operating systems
Network protocols and packet analysis tools

SIEM
DLP, Endpoint Security, and anti-malware Required Clearance/Certifications: Active IAT Level II Certification (Sec+, CCNA, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP, or equivalent) AND Operating System (OS)/Computing Environment (CE) certification Active or interim Secret Clearance