SOC Engineer Tier 2

Applied Information Sciences • Springfield, VA

3d • $138,000 - $209,000

About The Position

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success. Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements. Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth. Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued. Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities. At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles. At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Security Architect. Core Knowledge & Skills: Develops enterprise security architectures, frameworks, and standards; utilizes advanced forensics and integrates solutions with IT systems. Work & Complexity: Designs secure architectures, manages integration projects, leads strategic initiatives, and enforces policies and standards. Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity and scalability, develops comprehensive strategies, and optimizes solutions for performance and efficiency. Teamwork & Communication: Leads architectural teams, builds partnerships, manages knowledge, and communicates strategies and executive reports. Consulting & Engagement: Provides architectural consulting, leads innovation initiatives, evaluates enterprise technologies, and builds strategic partnerships. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a SOC Engineer Tier 2. Introduction: As a SOC Engineer Tier 2 you will use cutting-edge cloud technologies to ensure secure operations for our clients. Ensure that large-scale Azure and M365 environments are secure and that security events are quickly identified and resolved. Build comprehensive security alerts and monitoring tools and dashboards to gauge the operational security of system components. Implement innovation to improve efficiency of Azure security related activities. Serve as point of escalation for challenging and complex security issue resolution. Join our team of security operations cloud professionals and accomplish what others only dream of. This is a night shift position, but you must be willing to fill in for other shifts as needed. (12:00am-8:00am)

Requirements

• 6 + years of experience in security engineering to operate M365 and Azure platforms
• Security + certification
• Experience in Azure and M365 environments
• Good experience in a variety of SOC engineering/ administration tools
• Handles daily alerts, incidents; monitors, tracks, analyzes and records.
• Work with other IT professionals to resolve fast moving vulnerabilities such as spam, virus, spyware and malware.
• Monitor security vulnerability information from vendors and third parties.
• Strong engineering analysis ability
• CySA+ is required within 6 months of joining the team
• TS/SCI with CI Polygraph is required

Nice To Haves

• Provide technical guidance / recommendations to clients to enhance their overall security posture within the managed products.
• Work with vendors, outside consultants, and other third parties to improve information security within the organization.
• Advanced Forensics skills to evaluate current malware and phishing threats.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender Suite
• Experience with SOC capabilities using tools like Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel, Azure Automation, Azure Backup, Azure Security Center, etc.
• Apply these capabilities to IaaS and PaaS services such and VMs, Azure Service Environment ASE, Azure Kubernetes Service AKS, Spring Cloud, Azure Virtual Desktop, etc.
• MSFT: SC-200, SC-900, AZ-900, AZ-500

Responsibilities

• Review the environment scoping information and inventory to ensure a deep understanding of the organization's business, its applications, and technical solutions.
• Be well versed in the areas of focus on the security roadmap and have an understanding of how they will be implemented and impact the work that the Security Operations Center staff will have to take up.
• Provide the SOC with an understanding as to the mapping between IT & organization security and how it relates to the responsibilities and tasking that the SOC has.
• Ensure that the SOC team is focusing on education based on preventative maintenance and roadmap capabilities.
• Participate in audit reviews to ensure that gaps in coverage are being addressed by the SOC team.
• Support the creation of reporting templates, explain how they are used and generated and the expectation regarding their cadence.
• Create a process where the reports are reviewed and feedback loops provide the ability to improve them.
• Specialize in SIEM configuration and maintenance.
• Responsible for building the security architecture and systems
• Work with development operations teams to ensure that systems are up to date.
• Document requirements, procedures, and protocols to ensure that other users have the right resources
• Work with customers on complex operational issues

Benefits

• Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
• Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
• Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
• Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What This Job Offers

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