Microsoft Security Engineer

Base One Technologies - Arlington, VA

Full-time - Senior

Arlington, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Microsoft Security Engineer role at Base One Technologies involves designing, building, and maintaining cybersecurity tools and platforms to support customer needs. The position requires a senior-level engineer with extensive experience in IT service management and cybersecurity initiatives, focusing on system design, development, and operations. The engineer will work independently, manage multiple assignments, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure secure and efficient infrastructure deployment.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, design, build, and maintain current and future customer-supported tools and platforms.
• Manage multiple assignments and work independently with minimal oversight.
• Produce system design documents and support architectural analysis of cybersecurity features.
• Review and provide input to system requirements based on cybersecurity posture.
• Compile industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs.
• Provide broad-based experience in IT Service Management for cybersecurity initiatives.
• Employ measures to ensure the deployed infrastructure is secure and available.
• Advise and assist team members in deploying and configuring collection services and tools.
• Develop processes to evaluate and improve operating systems, hardware, software, and firmware solutions.
• Work closely with stakeholders to solve technical problems at the network, system, and application levels.
• Conduct periodic architectural reviews of installed sensors to assess effectiveness.
• Draft technical documentation, reports, and presentations as needed.
• Manage physical and virtual infrastructure and troubleshoot problems to successful completion.
• Create and manage shell scripts for task automation and log extraction.
• Develop solutions to complex technical issues.
• Provide follow-up reports for root cause analysis and process improvement initiatives.
• Provide training and documentation for customer and internal teams.
• Review and approve documentation and diagrams.
• Identify tasks and issues impacting service levels or schedules and provide estimates.
• Maintain a current working knowledge of IT development methodology and security best practices.
• Communicate with technical leads, IT groups, and customer representatives.

Requirements

• BS degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or related field and 10-12 years of prior relevant experience OR Masters with 8-10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Expertise with Azure services and components to build, manage, and maintain Azure Cloud environments.
• Experience with Active Directory (AD) and ADFS.
• Extensive automation experience with PowerShell and Shell Scripting.
• Extensive knowledge of server operations and maintenance.
• Extensive experience managing enterprise networks.
• Understanding of cloud terminology, architecture, and tools.

Nice-to-haves

• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining tools such as Tanium, Nessus, Forescout, and Cyberark in a hybrid-cloud environment.
• Experience automating management tasks with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with Linux administration (RHEL).
• Experience with PKI (Gemalto).
• Experience working among different Cloud Provider environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience developing in Bash, Python, and/or Powershell.
• Experience working with SIEM tools such as Splunk.