Cyber Security Engineer

TISTA Science and Technology is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to join our growing team.

TISTA associates enjoy above Industry Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and much more!

• Support the administration, continuous monitoring, and reporting using the agency's cyber tools.
• Be vocal in the team: leverage experience and industry best practices to strengthen and enhance the agency's security posture.
• Provide technical support to monitor, correlate, identify, mitigate, manage, track and support processes for security incidents.
• Support cybersecurity enterprise architecture development, including review and creation of documentation, design architecture diagrams, and implementation recommendations of cyber tools.
• Perform software assessments with an eye on risk identification and mitigation.
• Manage Office 365 Exchange quarantine queue and web proxy whitelist requests.
• Manage email alerts by agency's cybersecurity toolset. Triage and escalating where needed.

• Experience supporting vulnerability management activities with Nessus Security Center.
• Able to build strong relationships with lead teams and individuals without direct reporting relationships.
• Able to work independently to complete assigned tasks and document new procedures as needed.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills and ability to articulate and present information to all levels of management and staff.
• Two years of experience operating in a Windows Server and Active Directory environment.
• Two years of experience administrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
• Two years of experience with Splunk Enterprise.
• Two years of experience with Tenable Nessus.

Desired Skills

• Experience administering STIG hardened Red Hat Linux (RHEL) environments.
• Experienced in two or more: PowerShell, Python, Ansible and bash/shell scripting.
• Experience with ServiceNow projects, incidents and change management processes.
• Experience performing software assessments.
• Experience with one or more of the following tools:
  • Nutanix
  • CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM)
  • SailPoint IIQ
  • Zscaler Zero Trust solutions
  • CrowdStrike
  • F5 Big IP
• Ability to identify and advocate for process improvement opportunities to the team and government.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• CompTIA Security+ or other cybersecurity certification.

Clearance:

• Must be eligible to hold a Public Trust clearance.

Work Location:

• Tele-Commute ok however must be able to attend on-site meetings in Washington, DC,