Senior CND Engineer; Engineer Info Assurance

Position: Senior CND Engineer (Engineer Info Assurance 4) - 28921
Requisition Number: 28921

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type:

Part Time/Hourly/Non-Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $85,185.00 - $

Security Clearance: TS/SCI  

Level of

Experience:

Mid

This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII's Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5

ISR systems.

HII works within our nation's intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace and anticipate emerging threats. Our capabilities in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, software and hardware development uniquely enable us to support sensitive missions for the U.S. military and federal agency partners.

Meet HII's Mission Technologies Division

Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense - the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5

ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that's right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

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Job Description

Mission Technologies, a division of HII, is hiring a part-time Senior CND Engineer to support our team in delivering cutting-edge solutions that advance national security and defense objectives. This position is part of our Cyber and Intelligence division, which plays a critical role in supporting Enterprise-Level Security and Modernization efforts across IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, physical facilities, and personnel operations.

The selected candidate will contribute to a high-impact government program focused on enhancing and securing mission-critical systems and environments.  An active TS/SCI security clearance is required. Candidate must be willing to obtain and maintain a CI poly.

Information Assurance Engineer 4: $100 - $115 p/hr

Essential

Job Responsibilities

+ You will strengthen the organization's cyber defense posture by engineering, optimizing, and maintaining Splunk based security monitoring and analytics capabilities. In this role, you transform cybersecurity requirements into actionable detection logic, dashboards, data models, and workflows that support continuous monitoring and incident response operations.

+ Key responsibilities include working closely with cybersecurity teams to understand threat scenarios, developing and tuning correlation searches, and engineering data ingestion pipelines for high value security log sources. You will create dashboards, visualizations, and alerts to support threat hunting, incident investigations, and compliance reporting.

+ You may also contribute to solution design activities such as data mapping, field extraction, log onboarding strategies, and proof of concept integrations.

+ Additionally, you will validate detection logic through testing, troubleshoot data quality issues, and ensure Splunk content aligns with security policies, operational needs, and mission requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

+ 9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.

+ 7+ years implementing and maintaining CND technologies on enterprise WANs

+ 4+ years experience with SIEM and/or vulnerability scanner products

+ 4+ years experience maintaining and operating Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers.

+ Active TS/SCI w/ ability to obtain and maintain a CI poly.

Preferred Requirements

+ 4+ years experience with Splunk (or equivalent SIEM)

+ 4+ years Tenable/ACAS (or equivalent vulnerability scanner), experience evaluating technologies against DISA STIGs and providing…