Cybersecurity Engineer

Amyx•Columbus, OH

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Amyx, Inc. is seeking to hire a Cybersecurity Engineer to be located in Columbus, OH or Richmond, VA. This role serves as a lead Cybersecurity Engineer, performing a variety of routine project tasks applied to specialized cybersecurity problems. Tasks involve the integration of electronic processes or methodologies to resolve total system problems, or technology problems as they relate to cybersecurity requirements. The position requires analyzing information security requirements and applying analytical and systematic approaches to resolve issues in workflow, organization, and planning. The role provides security engineering support for the planning, design, development, testing, demonstration, and integration of information systems.

Requirements

Seven (7) years of relevant IT experience
DOD Secret Clearance.
Must possess IT-I Critical Sensitive security clearance or Tier 5 (T5)
Primary DCWF Work Role 521: Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Proficiency Level: Intermediate
Secondary DCWF Work Role 451: System Administrator Proficiency Level: Intermediate
Computing Environment: Linux+, Splunk Administrator
Experience creating custom dashboards and reports in Splunk using threat data
Experience in the integration and sustainment of Splunk Core and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES).

Nice To Haves

Administration knowledge of the Splunk ES and backend database infrastructure related to upgrades and daily maintenance is essential.

Responsibilities

Analyzes threat information gathered from logs, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), intelligence reports, vendor sites, and a variety of other sources.
Creates customized dashboards using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool Splunk ES to elevate high threat items to incident responders.
Provides analysis and makes recommendations in line with the roles of CERT Incident Handlers (IH) and site Information Assurance Managers (IAM).
Develops ES rules, reports, dashboards, data monitors, active channels, trends and use cases to identify threats and optimize data mining across DLA.
Researches, plans, installs, configures, troubleshoots, maintains and backs up all components in the DLA Splunk Enterprise Log Management (ELM) architecture.