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The Senior Cyber Security Engineer will design, develop, and maintain reusable frameworks, libraries, APIs, and reference implementations for zero trust authentication and authorization.
Responsibilities:
- Create developer guides, documentation, and best practices to enable smooth integration with security services. Implement and support fine-grained authorization patterns (entitlements, row-level security, ABAC).
- Collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure security services meet performance, usability, and compliance requirements.
- Conduct code reviews and provide guidance to development teams on secure coding and integration practices.
- Research emerging zero trust and identity/access management technologies to recommend improvements.
Here's what you need:
- 4 years of experience as a Cyber Security Engineer with an emphasis on automation and platform engineering providing subject matter expertise to the team and the customer
- 3 years of experience with designing and building implementations of required security controls; and implementing continuous monitoring and auditing of solutions for compliance with security controls.
- Strong experience in implementing security controls from government regulatory frameworks and security standards (e.g., NIST SP 800-53, RMF, ICD 503, FISMA, FedRAMP).
- Experience with researching, designing, testing, evaluating and implementing technologies such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, K8, and CI/CD Automation
- Experience with Source Code repositories and CI/CD pipeline solutions such as Bitbucket, and GitHub
- Experience with container orchestration tools (OpenShift preferred)
- Demonstrated and repeat experience implementing controls for cloud, container, and/or DevSecOps services and solutions from IL5 to IL6+ on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS.
- Expert-level skills in specifying and implementing log collection into tools such as Splunk, and performing querying and analysis of aggregated logs to identify security-relevant anomalies or risks
Bonus points if you have:
- Expert proficiency in incident response, security incident handling, and forensic analysis techniques.
- Expertise with security tools such as Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud
- Experience performing periodic (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) security check to support continuous monitoring aligned with the NIST Risk Management Framework
- Experience applying Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) requirements to harden information systems (Linux Preferred)
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technica
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