SOC Engineer Tier 1​/Security Clearance

Position: SOC Engineer Tier 1/2 with Security Clearance
Why AIS? When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.
* Employee Ownership:
Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

* Continuous Learning:
Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

* Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

* Mission-Driven Work:
Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities. What are we looking for? At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles. What you will be doing? This position is contingent upon contract award.

We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded. At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Security Engineer.

* Core Knowledge &

Skills:

Applies advanced network security, cryptography, vulnerability assessment, regulatory compliance, and access/governance principles.

* Work & Complexity:
Conducts security assessments, handles incidents, implements policies, configures advanced security settings, and manages security devices.

* Quality & Independence:
Conducts thorough assessments, produces clear documentation, improves practices, and works independently within project scope.

* Teamwork & Communication:
Participates in team projects, shares knowledge, coordinates with other teams, and mentors junior staff.

* Consulting & Engagement:
Advises internal teams, optimizes processes, evaluates technologies, and coordinates vendor support. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a SOC Engineer Tier 1/2. As aSOC Engineer Tier 1-2 you will use cutting-edge cloud technologies to ensure secure operations for our clients. Ensure that large-scale Azure and M365 environments are secure and that security events are quickly identified and resolved.

Build comprehensive security alerts and monitoring tools and dashboards to gauge the operational security of system components. Implement innovation to improve efficiency of Azure security related activities. Serve as point of escalation for challenging and complex security issue resolution. Join our team of security operations cloud professionals and accomplish what others only dream of. Multiple shifts - Day, Swing, Night, Weekends/Holidays

Please note:

This is an evergreen posting to collect resumes for future openings; there is no active position available at this time. What You'll Be Doing
* Review the environment scoping information and inventory to ensure a deep understanding of the organization's business, its applications, and technical solutions.

* Be well versed in the areas of focus on the security roadmap and have an understanding of how they will be implemented and impact the work that the Security Operations Center staff will have to take up.

* Provide the SOC with an understanding as to the mapping between IT & organization security and how it relates to the responsibilities and tasking that the SOC has.

* Ensure that the SOC team is focusing on education based on preventative maintenance and roadmap capabilities.

* Participate in audit reviews to ensure that gaps in coverage are being addressed by the SOC team.

* Support the creation of reporting templates, explain how they are used and generated and the expectation regarding their cadence. Create a process where the reports are reviewed and feedback loops provide the ability to improve them.

* Specialize in SIEM configuration and maintenance.

* Responsible for building the security architecture and systems

* Work with development operations teams to ensure that systems are up to date.

* Document requirements, procedures, and protocols to ensure that other users have the right resources

* Work with customers on complex operational issues Location and Travel Details Must be in the DC Metropolitan area as positions will be 100% onsite. Security Clearance and Citizenship Requirements TS/SCI with CI Polygraph is required Skills required for this opportunity
* 3 + years of experience in security engineering to operate M365 and Azure platforms

* Security + certification

* Experience in Azure and M365 environments

* Good experience in a variety of SOC engineering/ administration tools

* Handles…