Desired Skills and Experience

  • Understanding of AWS-based services supporting production SaaS platform including web applications and data analytic services
  • Ability to analyze cybersecurity problem, develop a technologically sound risk balanced approach, and articulate a response.
  • Ability to act as the primary interface for the client, including providing status briefings on project status
  • Working collaboratively across teams to ensure consistent, performant, appropriate and secure customer deployments
  • Assessing security configurations for SaaS, PaaS, and Cloud systems, traditional operating systems, applications and services
  • Participates as needed in all phases of customer deployment with emphasis on the planning, analysis, testing, integration, documentation, and deployment phases.
  • Applies principles, methods and knowledge of the functional area of capability to specific task order requirements, to exceptionally difficult and narrowly defined technical problems in engineering and other scientific applications to arrive at automated solutions.
  • Perform profiling, identifying and optimizing existing deployment
  • Critical thinking and problem solving with a broader perspective keeping the business impact of the technical decision in mind and with a ability to be better organized while taking various time sensitive technical decisions.
  • Analyze emerging technologies and design and build architectures and solutions to enable secure implementation of new technologies.
  • Supporting and assisting on-premise software deployments and client integration security considerations
  • Supporting and assisting non-AWS cloud deployments as needed
  • Reside in the greater Washington D.C. area or be able to relocate
  • Broad knowledge of security best practices, security solutions, and methodologies for conducting advance security assessments, to include manual assessments and malicious user testing
  • Proficient working with various Infrastructure tools/technologies such as SCCM, GPO, Active Directory/Kerberos
  • Expert understanding of networking protocols and operating systems
  • Expertise in Python, C, C++, Powershell, Bash, etc…
  • Strong background in Microsoft Windows and Linux/Unix
  • Enterprise System Administration Experience
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to prioritize and execute in a methodical and disciplined manner. Set and manage expectations with senior stake-holders and team members
  • Knowledge of IT Security principles, techniques and technologies
  • Understanding of the technical aspects of Information Security
  • Hands-on technical understanding of incident response, computer forensics, network and/or application security
  • Understanding of Infrastructure Security and its impact on Security Operations, Vulnerabilities, Reporting, Analytics and Monitoring.
  • Knowledge of Networking protocols and technologies, e.g. TCP/IP, Firewalls, Routers, etc.
  • Knowledge of Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Good understanding of frameworks such as ISO 17799/27001/27002, and other relevant compliance such PCI, HIPPA, SOX, NERC, FISMA, FFIEC and GLBA and others
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present to a variety of external audiences, including being able to interact with senior executives
  • Effective organizational skills with strong attention to detail
  • Collaborative in nature
  • Competitive salary
  • Incentive stock options
  • Full range of benefits starting day one, including 401(k) and medical, dental & vision coverage
  • Flexible “Personal Time Off (PTO)” plan and 10+ paid holiday days per year