Cybersecurity Sensor Engineer

Job Number: R0233950

We are looking for a skilled Cyber Security Sensor Engineer to enhance our cybersecurity team. The ideal candidate will have extensive technical knowledge and a comprehensive understanding of cyber security technologies that detect incoming data within enterprise environments. Responsibilities include installing, engineering, and providing Tier III troubleshooting for sensors operating on predominantly Linux-based systems. The role involves deploying, tuning, and maintaining sensors across a complex, multi-network global enterprise environment.

This position emphasizes daily operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, and engineering tasks related to cyber security sensor tools. These include Network Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), threat detection, Deep Session Inspection, and full Packet Capture (PCAP) storage and analysis. While vendor-neutral, the role often involves working with tools from vendors such as Trellix/Fire Eye, Fidelis Security, Endace, SNORT, Suricata, Corelight, and Vectra AI.

The candidate must be capable of supporting security sensor solutions and ensuring their optimal performance within a complex security infrastructure.

Work with us as we secure and protect our nation's most sensitive capabilities.

• Design, deploy, and maintain Linux-based IDS/IPS systems across geographically dispersed, multi-domain enterprise networks.

• Develop, review, and optimize configuration files while collaborating with Security Operations Center analysts to enhance detection accuracy and reduce false positives.

• Manage the interaction between sensor configurations and runtime engines, including rule loading, protocol decoding, and logging processes.

• Work with security teams to integrate sensors with SIEM, SOAR, and other monitoring platforms.

• Keep abreast of updates to sensor operating systems, vendor software, NIC drivers, and community best practices for network interface tuning and IDS/IPS performance improvements, ensuring system effectiveness and security posture.

Join us. The world can't wait.

• Experience managing IDS, IPS, PCAP, and NDR systems, including configuration management, OS upgrades, hotfix application, and adherence to STIGs for cybersecurity tools

• Experience in administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems, covering package management, such as yum/dnf, kernel module handling, SELinux configuration, and system performance tuning

• Experience optimizing sensors for high-performance packet capture, utilizing advanced network interfaces, such as Napatech NICs, or hardware with direct-memory access capabilities

• Experience managing administrative and user access to appliances, servers, and endpoints using domain accounts, TPAM, LDAP, Kerberos, and Active Directory

• Experience with scripting languages, such as Bash or Python, and automation tools, such as Ansible, to streamline configuration and deployment processes across large-scale systems

• Ability to troubleshoot Linux interactions with NICs, drivers, and kernel modules within enterprise environments

• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam

• Associate's degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, or Master's degree and 1+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities

• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification, including Security+ CE, CCNA‑Security, GSEC, SSCP, CySA+, GICSP, or CND Certification

• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 Cybersecurity Service Provider - Infrastructure Support (CSSP‑IS) Certification, including CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND Certification, within 60 days of start date

• Experience remotely managing sensors, servers, and endpoints via SSH and SCP, using Linux and Windows command-line tools, including PuTTY

• Experience managing large enterprise data storage and RAID arrays in configurations, such as RAID 5/6/10/50/60, and fine‑tuning packet capture sensors feeding sensor storage array for optimal throughput

• Experience with SOC operations,…