Security Engineer

ICF•Reston, VA

6d•Remote

About The Position

This role is contingent upon a contract award. ICF is looking for an enthusiastic Security Engineer to join our team and help with ensuring our environments and applications meet Federal Security Standards. If you are Security Engineer interested in applying your expertise in Security Engineering in a consulting environment, then this may be the role for you. This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. ICF monitors employee work locations and blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and also prohibits personal VPN connections. Our core work hours are 10am - 4pm Eastern Time with the option to start earlier or work later depending on your time zone. The client is on the east coast and may sometimes start a meeting earlier than 10:00 which may require your participation. Travel for a conference or to another ICF location for collaboration may be required once a year.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
5+ years of professional security engineering experience
Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S.
Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years

Nice To Haves

NIST 800‑53 security controls
System hardening and implementation of DoD STIGs
Leading incident response activities
Data management and applied cryptography
Cloud security and infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
Awareness of OWASP Top Ten and CWE Top 25
Linux command line usage (e.g., bash, sh, zsh)
Scripting in Python, Perl, or similar languages
Prior experience in consulting or healthcare is an advantage but not essential.
Strong engineering background
Application architecture experience
Federal Government contracting work experience
One or more of the following certifications is preferred: OSCP/OSCE/OWSE CISSP GPEN GXPN Security + CEH
Good leadership and team-working skills.
Highly effective analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interface effectively at all levels of the business.
Organized, detailed oriented and able to prioritize and multi-task.
Ability to self-organize, prioritize and conduct work on multiple projects under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Prior experience working remotely full-time

Responsibilities

Perform Static Application Security Testing (SAST) to identify potential vulnerabilities in the application code and infrastructure
Perform Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Create and update threat models for FISMA systems
Assist and lead security incident response
Assist with documentation of System Security plan and Contingency Plans for related projects
Ensure security systems are up to date and create documentation and planning for all security-related information, including incident response and disaster recovery plans
Review policies and procedures for compliance with applicable standards; and to identify areas of improvement for finding remediation
Interact with senior level management, including the ISSO
Use security assessment tools such as Nessus, Snyk, AWS GuardDuty and AWS Inspector
Apply a demonstrated understanding of cryptography to secure web applications and data at rest
Work with development teams to review and correct code written in higher level programming languages and scripts
Work with DevOps teams to securely harden Linux based machines and cloud infrastructure