Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

The Alaka`ina Foundation Family of Companies (FOCs) is looking for a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to support our government customer located in Arlington, VA. This position is 100% on site.

• Responsible for supporting the operations of cybersecurity personnel, applications, and appliances employed to defend the cyber terrain, to include but not limited to:
  • Firewall management
  • Host intrusion detection/prevention systems management
  • Security information and event management (SIEM, e.g. audit log review and analysis)
  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Incident response
  • Technical analysis & troubleshooting assistance
  • Support the agency with project tracking with the integrated master schedule
  • Project presentations to the agency change boards.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor of Science in computer science or related field or six to ten (6-10) years of experience in the cybersecurity field.
• Required to be certified IAT level III (CASP, CCNP, CISA, CISSP)

• Experience with HBSS/EPO/Trellix/ESS or Tenable/ACAS/Nessus.
• In-depth knowledge of systems engineering, systems security operations, incident response methodologies, general user behavior analytics, and general personnel management.
• Powershell & Bash experience
• Networking experience
• Firewall configuration
• Authentication configuration
• DNS/IP Configuration

• Splunk Enterprise - experience with migrating systems to a new Splunk server, configuring forwarders for different systems/IoT, deploying Splunk applications, experience with configuring Splunk heavy forwarder
• Varonis - experience with deploying & upgrading the application
• STIG
• Fortify
• Redhat/Linux - knowledge of how to Chown and Chmod, file permission, creating .key .pem files

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Must have an active Top Secret-SCI clearance.

The Alaka`ina Foundation Family of Companies (FOCs) is a fast-growing government service provider. Employees enjoy competitive salaries. Eligible full-time employees enjoy a 401K plan with company match; medical, dental, disability, and life insurance coverage; tuition reimbursement; paid time off; and 11 paid holidays.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are proud to state that we do not discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. If you are a person with a disability and you need an accommodation during the application process, please  to request accommodation.

We E-Verify all employees.