Description
Job Description:
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile/cellular, various cloud environments, security devices, servers and workstations. The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.
Primary Responsibilities:
The Cyber Security Engineer Mid will support the full system engineering life-cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, test, implementation, maintenance, integration, and documentation of SOC infrastructure and SOC tool suite.
The Security Engineer will be installing, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting network security solutions and related monitoring tools including L2/L3 network security devices, IDS/IPS, Full packet capture, DLP, Endpoint (AV, DLP, Endpoint Detection & Response), and infrastructure supporting SEIM (Splunk).
The Security Engineer must have understanding and knowledge of LAN/WAN security solutions including creating and maintaining LAN/WAN security standards and design documentation.
Knowledge and familiarity with new LAN/WAN security applications and hardware as assigned.
Ability to script in one more of the following computer languages Python, Bash, Visual Basic or Powershell
Strong written and oral communication with the ability to communicate with team members, management and customer.
Below are some tools/skills the candidate should have knowledge or experience on:
Hands on experience on AWS – Majority of the environment systems are in AWS. These may include EC2, Storage, Lambda, S3, VPC, Storage Gateways
Hands on experience with Linux – More than half of the systems being managed are Linux. This ranges from CentOS, Amazon Linux 2, RHEL, Kali Linux, and Rocky Linux. Knowledge/experience in patching and updating these will be key.
Knowledge and understanding of Networking and how it all ties together – networking knowledge, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, AWS VPCs, Firewalls.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Software Development, Information Technology, Cyber Security, or related field and 6 years of related experience. Additional years of experience and cyber certifications may be considered in lieu of degree.
Clearance:
Preferred Qualifications:
Redhat, Cisco or Microsoft, Security+, Linux+, or Network+ certifications
Original Posting Date:
2024-08-08
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $81,250.00 - $146,875.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
