Information Defense Engineer

Job Title: Information Defense Engineer

Location: Arlington, Virginia

Clearance Level: Top Secret Clearance

Summary

We deliver essential technology services to our customers in support of their missions to sustain the national security and economic interest of our nation. SecuriGence is seeking a talented Information Defense Engineer to help contribute to our success. Come help us solve problems with Innovation Through Intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Computer Network Attack/Computer Network Defense/Computer Network Operations on over 100 networks.
• Monitors and proactively identifies cyber threats in client information infrastructure.
• Identifies and reports typosquatted domains.
• Gathers, analyzes, and generates technical cyber intelligence.
• Provides advanced technical support and analysis during incidents.
• Develops and institutes custom defensive countermeasures.
• Maintains an unattributable network infrastructure.
• Works with Network Security Operations Center (NSOC) personnel to identify, contain, and respond to information security incidents.
• Provides a conduit for information sharing on cyber threats between the client, US Government agencies, and, at limited capacity, Government contractors.
• Responsible for Forensic analysis, Cyber hunting, Proactive threat detection & analysis, Malware reconstruction and Packet analysis.
• Become power users of client security tools, including, to some degree, tool tuning as needed.
• Investigate malicious emails, scope and assess impact.
• Perform security assessments and pilot testing on new software and security applications as required.
• Perform penetration testing and forensics on mobile devices and removal media as requested.
• Understand how attackers leverage TOR and Dark Web sources to sell exploits and stolen data.
• Identify and respond to potential insider threat activity.
• Validate VDPs from public bug bounty sources.

Skills and Experience

• Relevant technical experience in information security field.
• Understanding of common networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and SMB
• Fundamental understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Experience with analyzing network, firewall, IPS, and system logs.
• Experienced in red team/penetration testing/vulnerability exploitation.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to research and evaluate technologies for fulfilling newly identified security gaps.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Analytical and critical thinking skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree. Can be substituted for Associate's degree with 2+ years relevant experience or 4 years relevant experience.
• 6 years relevant experience.
• Must have a DoD Top Secret Clearance.

About

SecuriGence LLC (SG) is an agile, Veteran-owned small business headquartered in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Established in April 2010 we have been supporting the Department of Defense and other United States Civil agencies in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Development, Cyber Security, and Cloud/Virtualization Management.

SecuriGence provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.