Cyber Data Analysis Engineer
About The Position
Valiant Solutions is seeking a Cyber Data Analysis Engineer to support a program delivering network and cybersecurity IT services to an Intelligence Community customer. The team supports transport and cybersecurity services across multiple networks, security domains, and worldwide locations, including new facilities and construction supporting the IC mission. This role is 100% onsite in St. Louis, Missouri, or Springfield, Virginia, and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to pass and maintain a Government Polygraph after hire. The engineer resolves complex and escalated issues, performs root cause analysis, and maintains system availability and reliability. The role includes configuration management, event and log management, compliance and identity monitoring, maintenance, engineering, testing, integration, implementation, and documentation. The position also coordinates with customers, program subject-matter experts, other service providers, and Government stakeholders. Applicants must have a bachelor's degree in a technical field, an IAT II certification, and obtain CSSP Infrastructure Support certification within 120 days of hire. The role requires at least five years of systems engineering or similar experience, advanced Linux proficiency, and knowledge of network communications, infrastructure components, and systems engineering practices. Valiant describes itself as an employee-centric cybersecurity and IT services company supporting federal civilian, defense, and national security customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
- IAT II certification.
- Obtain CSSP Infrastructure Support certification within 120 days of hire.
- Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to pass and maintain a Government Polygraph after hire.
- At least 5 years of Systems Engineer or similar experience.
- Strong work ethic; self-directed and detail-oriented.
- Willingness to learn and adapt to new, cutting-edge technologies.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to work unsupervised.
- Demonstrated problem-solving ability, including root cause analysis.
- Advanced Linux proficiency.
- Knowledge of network communication principles and common infrastructure components, including IPAM, DNS, DHCP, load balancers, firewalls, and virtual and physical infrastructure design.
- Experience with hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, or Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Google, or Rackspace.
- Experience with private clouds such as VMware or OpenStack.
- Strong background in Unix or Windows servers.
- Experience with SIEM technologies such as Elastic, Splunk, and/or ArcSight.
- Familiarity with Cribl data aggregation and normalization technology.
- Scripting experience with Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell.
Responsibilities
- Resolve escalated issues and perform root cause analysis for complex issues.
- Communicate with program subject-matter experts and customers with less technical backgrounds.
- Examine system details closely and manage work across several customers at different onboarding stages.
- Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain hardware and software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation.
- Coordinate and conduct event collection, log management, event management, compliance, and identity monitoring activities for the customer’s system.
- Work with other service providers in areas of common interest.
- Provide preventative and corrective maintenance to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure service availability.
- Maintain system availability and reliability at a threshold of 99.99%.
- Detect and ticket degradations in volume or velocity of SIEM data flows within 60 minutes of the start of degradation.
- Perform day-to-day and scheduled maintenance arising from manufacturer-recommended service intervals, alerts, bulletins, patches, and updates, following agency-approved change management processes.
- Execute emergency maintenance actions with sufficient urgency to prevent unacceptable outages, subject to prior Government approval and coordination and approval through CSOC and ESC Government management.
- Perform development, engineering, testing, integration, and implementation actions necessary for major vendor revisions.
- Retain documentation regarding loss of event logs.
- Configure assigned assets listed in the Government Furnished Information - Software Tools list in accordance with applicable Federal, DoD, IC, and NGA laws, directives, orders, policies, guidance, and procedures.
- Use agency-approved ticketing systems to document, track, assign, update, and coordinate engineering, integration, configuration, and maintenance actions.
Benefits
- Choice of medical plans, including an HSA option and a PPO, with company contributions.
- Dental and vision coverage for employees and their families.
- Company-paid life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Optional supplemental life, accident, and critical illness coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Paid time off that increases with years of service and paid federal holidays.
- Paid certifications, professional development, and access to the Valiant University training portal.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Wellness and fitness program.
- Referral bonuses.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
