Senior CND Engineer (Engineer Info Assurance 4) - 28921

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. • Springfield, MO

16h

About The Position

This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5ISR systems. HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace and anticipate emerging threats. Our capabilities in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, software and hardware development uniquely enable us to support sensitive missions for the U.S. military and federal agency partners. Mission Technologies, a division of HII, is hiring a part-time Senior CND Engineer to support our team in delivering cutting-edge solutions that advance national security and defense objectives. This position is part of our Cyber and Intelligence division, which plays a critical role in supporting Enterprise-Level Security and Modernization efforts across IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, physical facilities, and personnel operations. The selected candidate will contribute to a high-impact government program focused on enhancing and securing mission-critical systems and environments.

Requirements

• 9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.
• 7+ years implementing and maintaining CND technologies on enterprise WANs
• 4+ years experience with SIEM and/or vulnerability scanner products
• 4+ years experience maintaining and operating Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers.
• Active TS/SCI w/ ability to obtain and maintain a CI poly.

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years experience with Splunk (or equivalent SIEM)
• 4+ years Tenable/ACAS (or equivalent vulnerability scanner), experience evaluating technologies against DISA STIGs and providing remediation guidance.
• Associate to Intermediate-level Splunk certification (e.g., Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin)
• Intermediate to Advanced Spunk certifications (e.g., Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, Splunk IT Service intelligence certified admin, Splunk SOAR Certified Automation Developer)
• Ansible, or equivalent related coursework.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen the organization’s cyber defense posture by engineering, optimizing, and maintaining Splunk based security monitoring and analytics capabilities.
• Transform cybersecurity requirements into actionable detection logic, dashboards, data models, and workflows that support continuous monitoring and incident response operations.
• Work closely with cybersecurity teams to understand threat scenarios, developing and tuning correlation searches, and engineering data ingestion pipelines for high value security log sources.
• Create dashboards, visualizations, and alerts to support threat hunting, incident investigations, and compliance reporting.
• Contribute to solution design activities such as data mapping, field extraction, log onboarding strategies, and proof of concept integrations.
• Validate detection logic through testing, troubleshoot data quality issues, and ensure Splunk content aligns with security policies, operational needs, and mission requirements.

Benefits

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed