Security Engineer (Senior)

Cintel Inc•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

Cintel, Inc. is seeking a highly detail-oriented, experienced Security Engineer to oversee the security of multiple applications and secure cloud infrastructure, including AWS, DevSecOps, cloud security, and identity and access management. The role includes designing and operating security monitoring and alerting, supporting incident response and recovery planning, and helping protect applications, platforms, websites, and online transactions. The engineer works with industry partners to advise the government on security vulnerabilities and recommendations and maintains cloud environments in accordance with defense-in-depth security governance policies and guidelines. The position is full-time and located in Huntsville, Alabama. Candidates need eight years of relevant experience and a related bachelor's degree, or four additional years of experience in lieu of the degree. An active Top Secret clearance and ability to obtain SCI eligibility are required. Cintel describes its team as self-organized, motivated problem solvers who are comfortable developing technical solutions for ill-defined problems and eager to learn new skills and keep up with technology trends.

Requirements

  • Eight years of relevant experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field, or four additional years of experience in lieu of the degree.
  • Active Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain SCI eligibility.
  • Ability to develop technical solutions to ill-defined problems where requirements may be lacking and solutions are not obvious.
  • Self-motivation and eagerness to learn new skills.

Nice To Haves

  • Jack-of-all-trades approach and eagerness to keep up with the latest technology trends.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the security of multiple applications.
  • Produce incident response and recovery plans.
  • Apply knowledge of cyber resiliency, planning, and web application and platform security testing.
  • Design monitoring and alerting capabilities to detect anomalous activity across multiple systems.
  • Monitor platforms and applications for anomalous activity.
  • Understand application critical data and vulnerability points.
  • Coordinate with industry partners to advise the government on security vulnerabilities and recommendations.
  • Correlate data to support detection, remediation, monitoring, and feedback on changes.
  • Operate secure cloud infrastructure, platforms, and software.
  • Install, maintain, and upgrade cloud computing environments and core infrastructure.
  • Develop, build, maintain, upgrade, and continuously improve cloud networks and cloud-based systems in accordance with defense-in-depth security governance policies and guidelines.
  • Manage organizational COMSEC resources (CNSSI 4009) or serve as key custodian for a crypto key management system (CKMS).
  • Perform procedures to protect the organization's website, Internet transactions, confidential order information, and external business-to-business connections.
  • Apply Internet firewall and encryption technologies to protect organizational and customer security.
  • Update and delete users, monitor and follow up on compliance violations, and develop security policies, practices, and guidelines.
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