Cyber Data Analysis Engineer

Freedom Technology Solutions Groups is looking to add a Cyber Data Analysis Engineer to the team in both St. Louis, MO and Springfield, VA.

Responsible for building and maintaining data pipelines for information used in cybersecurity investigations within the enterprise. In this role you will contribute to data ingest, data normalization, SIEM management, Linux/Windows host administration, virtual machine (VM) management, and cloud asset management. You must be experienced, driven, and possess strong Linux, Windows, and/or networking skills, and be an active listener, detail oriented, and a clear communicator.

• Resolve escalated issues and perform root cause analysis for complex issues
• Communicate with program SMEs and customers with varied technical backgrounds
• Demonstrate high attention to detail, examining every aspect of the system
• Multi‑task across several customers in various stages of the onboarding process
• Apply configuration‑management disciplines to maintain hardware/software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
• Coordinate event collection, log management, event management, compliance activities, and identity monitoring for the customer's system
• Collaborate with other service providers on common areas of interest
• Provide preventative and corrective maintenance to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure service availability
• Maintain system availability and reliability with a threshold of 99.99%
• Detect and ticket degradations of all SIEM data flows within 60 minutes of the start of the degradation
• Perform day‑to‑day and scheduled maintenance activities per manufacturer‑recommended service intervals, alerts, bulletins, patches, and updates following agency‑approved change‑management processes
• Execute emergency maintenance actions with sufficient urgency to preclude unacceptable outage durations, approved by the Government prior to execution and coordinated through CSOC and ESC government management
• Perform all development, engineering, testing, integration, and implementation actions necessary for major vendor revisions
• Retain documentation regarding loss of event logs (e.g., June 5‑7 DNS logs were not ingested from SBU and are lost)
• Configure all assets assigned to this service within the Government Furnished Information – Software Tools list in accordance with all Federal, DoD, IC, and NGA laws, directives, orders, policies, guidance, and procedures
• Utilize agency‑approved ticketing systems to document, track, assign, update, and coordinate all engineering, integration, configuration, and maintenance actions

Required:

• 5+ years of Systems Engineer or similar experience
• IAT II certification and obtain CSSP Infrastructure Support certification within 120 days of hire
• Strong work ethic, self‑directed, and detail‑oriented professional
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new, cutting‑edge technologies
• Excellent time‑management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
• Demonstrated ability to use problem‑solving techniques such as root cause analysis to resolve issues
• Advanced Linux proficiency
• Knowledge of network communication principles, common infrastructure components (IPAM, DNS, DHCP), load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
• Experience with hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, Citrix Xen Server, Microsoft Hyper‑V
• Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques

Desired:

• Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Google, Rackspace
• Experience with private clouds such as VMware, Open Stack
• Strong background in Unix or Windows servers
• Experience with SIEM technologies such as Elastic, Splunk, and/or Arc Sight
• Familiarity with Cribl data aggregation/normalization technology
• Scripting experience with Python, Bash

• Flexible work environment
• Team mentality – work with friendly, like‑minded professionals
• Work with innovative, cutting‑edge technologies
• Extremely competitive compensation and benefits
• Work‑life balance you can count on
• Opportunities to grow and advance your career at our expense
• Amazing benefits including matching 401(k), fully paid medical, and more
• Generous paid time off – including paid site closure days
• Competitive salary offerings
• Paid training and tuition reimbursement
• Referral bonuses
• Fully paid life and disability coverage
• Annual logo‑wear allowance
• Company‑sponsored events (game nights, holiday party, summer party, happy hours)

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.