Cyber Security Engineer

Transforming the Business of Government

InquisIT is a high-energy, forward-thinking, advanced technology company that provides the Federal Government and select private-sector organizations with an impressive array of services and solutions. Company expertise includes Systems Engineering, Enterprise Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Management Services, and Software Support.

The company demonstrates a new brand of leadership—one that fosters trust, integrity, excellence, and yields high degrees of success and loyalty among employees and customers. How do we do it? We give customers something different. InquisIT is a company that demonstrates relentless dedication and commitment to its customers and our people; a company that has been brought in on multiple occasions to clean up after large integrators; a company that delivers real results and metrics—versus ideas and concepts; a company that thinks that the old "80% is good enough" should never be tolerated in government; and a company that believes in being a steward of the American taxpayer in everything we do.

Why do we feel this way? We embrace the belief that by providing the best service possible to the government, we ultimately provide the best service to our nation.

PLEASE NOTE:
THIS IS AN ON-SITE POSITION IN WASHINGTON DC

Primary Job Responsibilities
:

• Ensures adherence to security standards
• Acts as the point of contact responsible for the planning, development, test, and implementation of IT security controls
• Maintains an understanding and documentation of system security baselines
• Develops and executes information security plans and policies
• Develop strategies and procedures to respond to, recover, and investigate security breach(es)
• Develop or implement open-source/third-party tools to assist in detection, prevention and analysis of security threats
• Installs, configures, and updates firewalls, data encryption, and other security products to facilitate a secure posture
• Conduct periodic network scans to identify and remediate vulnerabilities
• Monitor networks and systems for security breaches through the use of software that detects intrusions and anomalous system behavior
• Penetration testing experience (burp suite)
• Threat hunting experience (threat intelligence analysis), UBA
• Working daily on-site in Washington DC

Experience and Qualifications
:

• 8+ years of industry experience in an Information Security function with degree, 10+ years without degree
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Experience with Palo Alto (preferred) or Cisco firewall, network security appliance administration and cloud security
• Experience with vulnerability scanners and management, preferably Tenable Nessus and Qualys, managing POAMs and Risk Acceptance Memos
• Possess fundamental knowledge of Windows and Linux (RHEL) operating systems, and the ability to analyze network traffic and security events
• Demonstrated experience with RMF, A&A, IV&V, and continuous monitoring
• Demonstrated experience implementing and assess compliance with security baseline and controls (CIS Benchmark, DISA STIG, NIST
• Experience with Log aggregation/SIEM tools such as Splunk or similar
• Ability to support and provide artifacts for annual audits and ATO review process (FISMA, FISCAM, etc)
• Ability to maintain up-to-date knowledge with modern adversarial techniques and incident response procedures
• Technical understanding of network operations, server architectures, storage solutions, and desktop hardware and software
• Demonstrated ability to communicate in a clear, thorough, and timely manner using appropriate and effective tools and techniques with peers, supervisors, and members of senior leadership
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions by assessing the situation to determine the importance, urgency, and risks, and making clear decisions which are timely and in the best interest of the organization
• AWS, Azure experience strongly preferred

Targeted Certifications
:

• CISSP
• CISA
• PCNSE

InquisIT provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, InquisIT complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as needed.