General Dynamics Information Technology-posted 3 months ago
$85,000 - $115,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
5,001-10,000 employees

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cybersecurity Engineer Senior supporting the United States Department of State, you will be trusted to work on engineering and managing Tenable (primarily), Splunk, McAfee, and other security tools. Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Cybersecurity Engineer Senior at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. GDIT is your place. You make it your own by bringing your ideas and unique perspective to our culture. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you are helping us ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

  • Engineer and manage security applications such as Tenable, Splunk, McAfee, and other security tools.
  • Evaluate, test, recommend, coordinate, monitor and maintain cybersecurity policies, procedures and systems, including infrastructure and access management for cybersecurity hardware, firmware and software.
  • Ensure that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.
  • Identify security risks and exposures, determine the causes of security violations and suggest procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.
  • Develop techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.
  • Carry out triage on security events, coordinate incidents with Incident Management Team, IT operations, network engineering, and application teams.
  • Diagnose, identify, isolate, and analyze problems utilizing historical database records.
  • Participate in the security engineering, validation testing of system configuration/hardening, and assessment of classified information systems (IS).
  • Support security posture assessments.
  • Maintain awareness of cyber trends, threats, and vulnerabilities.
  • Develop, integrate and maintain security toolsets.
  • Alert management to recurring problems and patterns of problems.
  • Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of Tenable experience.
  • 5+ years of Endpoint protection software experience (Symantec/McAfee/Crowdstrike).
  • 2+ years of Splunk experience.
  • Must possess CompTia Security+ Certification (preferred) or be able to obtain within 90 days of hire.
  • Must possess active Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility.
  • US Citizenship Required.
  • Ticketing and reporting experience.
  • Linux and Windows experience.
  • Cloud security experience.
  • Malware/Anti-virus solution experience (McAfee, Symantec, Carbon Black).
  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
  • 401K with company match.
  • Competitive pay and paid time off.
  • Full flex work weeks where possible.
  • Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
  • Short and long-term disability benefits.
  • Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance.
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