Cybersecurity System Assessment Engineer - Alexandria, United States - Soft Tech Consulting

Description

Overview

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of a Cybersecurity System Assessment Engineer for an existing government client. The place of performance for this contract is in Northern VA.

MUST HAVE TOP SECRET CLEARANCE

Responsibilities

• Uses defensive measures and information collected from a variety of sources to identify, analyze, and report events that occur or might occur within the network to protect information, information systems, and networks from threats.
• Provides expert support during cyber incident response.
• Collects, processes, preserves, analyzes, and presents computer-related log data in support of network vulnerability mitigation and incident response.
• Applies tactics, techniques, and procedures for a full range of investigative tools and processes to include, but not limited to, analysis techniques, system detection methods, and appropriately balances cybersecurity threats and risks.
• Shall collect requirements and develop reports and dashboards for other users as well as provide training on them.

Qualifications

• Data Architect experience is required.
• A degree in the field of computer science or a related discipline is preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in related field is preferred.
• Shall have a SPLUNK Core Certified Advanced Power User certificate.
• Shall have a familiarization with log data from windows and Linux operating systems, virus protections, vulnerability analysis (Tenable), Threat management (Tanium) software use.
• Shall meet or exceed National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) code PR-CDA-001 knowledge, skills, and abilities at the intermediate capacity level.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to work independently with little to no oversight.

About Us

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech's mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.