Cybersecurity Engineer Senior (TS With SCI Eligibility Required)

Cybersecurity Engineer Senior

Telecommuting: Hybrid

Travel Requirement: Less than 10%

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Possess: Top Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required: None

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cybersecurity Engineer Senior supporting the United States Department of State, you will be trusted to work on engineering and managing Tenable (primarily), Splunk, McAfee, and other security tools.

Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Cybersecurity Engineer Senior at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. GDIT is your place. You make it your own by bringing your ideas and unique perspective to our culture. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you are helping us ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

Meaningful Work And Personal Impact:

As a Cybersecurity Engineer Senior, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Department of State. You will play a crucial role via the following responsibilities:

• Engineer and manage security applications such as Tenable, Splunk, McAfee, and other security tools
• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures and systems, including infrastructure and access management for cybersecurity hardware, firmware and software
• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards
• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.
• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks
• Carries out triage on security events, coordinates incidents with Incident Management Team, IT operations, network engineering, and application teams
• Diagnoses, identifies, isolates, and analyzes problems utilizing historical database records
• Participates in the security engineering, validation testing of system configuration/hardening, and assessment of classified information systems (IS)
• Supports security posture assessments
• Maintains awareness of cyber trends, threats, and vulnerabilities
• Develops, integrates and maintains security toolsets
• Alerts management to recurring problems and patterns of problems

What You'll Need To Succeed:

Bring your cyber expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cybersecurity Engineer Senior must have:

• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of Tenable experience
• 5+ years of Endpoint protection software experience (Symantec/McAfee/Crowdstrike)
• 2+ years of Splunk experience
• Must possess CompTia Security+ Certification (preferred) or be able to obtain within 90 days of hire

Security Clearance Level: Must possess active Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility.

US Citizenship Required

Location: Hybrid/ minimum three days per week at GDIT's Integrated Technology Center in Bossier City, LA

Preferred Skills:

• Ticketing and reporting experience
• Linux and Windows experience
• Cloud security experience
• Malware/Anti-virus solution experience (McAfee, Symantec, Carbon Black)

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

Salary Information

The likely salary range for this position is $85,000 - $115,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Benefits Information

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.