IT Systems Technical Specialist

State of Maryland•Anne Arundel, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer serves as the SBE Technical Point of Contact (POC) for technical security matters and reports to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The position works closely with other IT stakeholders to support the agency’s cybersecurity program. The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer performs vulnerability scanning, analyzes scan results, and supports the remediation of identified risks by recommending and validating corrective actions. They also assist with system hardening, firewall rule reviews, endpoint detection and response (EDR), host-based security controls, endpoint protection management, log analysis, and other technical security operations required to maintain a resilient environment. The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer provides technical guidance and security architecture recommendations to support secure system design, configuration, and deployment. They help ensure that security controls align with NIST, CIS, and other applicable Federal and State cybersecurity standards and best practices. The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer will be the first POC for incident handling. This position supports incident response activities by investigating alerts, collecting technical evidence, and assisting in containment, eradication, and recovery efforts. The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer may also contribute to tabletop exercises, security testing, and the development of technical response procedures and documentation.

Requirements

Seven years of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining application, communication, database or operating systems software.
Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate and thirty credit hours from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Technology, Management Information Systems or other information technology-related field to include coursework in application, communication, database or operating systems software technology for four years of the required experience.
Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate and one year of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining application, communication, database or operating systems software for four years of the required experience.
Experience operating computer systems; or scheduling, controlling input and output to process data on computer systems; or evaluating, implementing and maintaining computer hardware and software; or converting data from project specifications by developing program code using generally accepted computer programming languages on a year-for-year basis for a high school education.
Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Information Technology, Management Information Systems or other information technology-related field to include coursework in application, communication, database or operating systems software technology and three years of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining application, communication, database or operating systems software for the required experience.
U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in the Computer Systems Operations classifications or Computer Systems Operations specialty codes in the Information Technology field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.
Endpoint detection and response (EDR) or endpoint protection management
Frewall administration or network security
Vulnerability scanning and remediation

Nice To Haves

Experience administering and tuning enterprise EDR or endpoint protection platforms.
Experience performing vulnerability scans.
Experience with firewall rule review, network segmentation, and IDS/IPS or other perimeter security technologies.
Experience working with security monitoring and logging tools.
Experience with Incident response or security monitoring

Responsibilities

Plans, designs and develops improvements and new or advanced systems or applications across an entire area of specialization in application, communication, database or operating systems software technology.
Performs in-depth analysis of various information technology alternatives to include consideration of technical matters, costs and compatibility with existing hardware or software, and prepares related narrative reports and technical documents.
Develops the structure, methodology and use for major elements of an information technology discipline for use across hardware and software such as data element dictionary, operating system customization user screen definition and use, program development tools and program generators.
Monitors the use of the particular information technology discipline in order to determine advances and changes necessary to achieve desired goals.
Provides expert technical advice and guidance to information technology staff such as IT Programmers, Systems Analysts, Operators, Technical Support Specialists, Network Specialists, Database Specialists, vendors and supervisory personnel and to departmental management regarding future directions, customization, software or hardware enhancements and software or hardware purchase recommendations in designated area of specialization.
Advises management in matters related to designated area of specialization to maintain efficient and effective information support functions by recommending solutions or alternatives to problems, new projects and changes in objectives in consideration of factors such as availability of resources, cost effectiveness and overall program policies and objectives.
Analyzes, designs and models broad projects and studies requiring critical resolution of difficult information technology issues in designated area of specialization.
Performs special assignments such as feasibility studies which involve long-range planning and an understanding and evaluation of diverse technical options in designated area of specialization to determine the course of current and future information technology solutions, methods and standards.
Keeps abreast of the state-of-the-art in the specific information technology discipline by reviewing technical journals, attending technical classes, conferences and user groups and maintaining regular communication with hardware and software vendors.
Performs other related duties.