IDS/IPS Security Engineer (DHS Clearance required)
Access Talent Today, LLC
- Raleigh, NC
About the Job:
Our client is seeking a talented, dynamic, and experienced IDS/IPS Security Engineer to add to its team in support of the United States Postal Service. The Security Engineer will be responsible for the security architecture across a variety of applications and domains. The ideal candidate will have expertise in certificate management, change review, and IDS/IPS administration and analysis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintaining the intrusion ruleset
- Assist in optimizing detection capabilities
- Configuring NGFW ACLs
- Performing general device configuration and maintenance
- Troubleshooting network devices when required
- Assisting analyst teams with investigations
- Support Solution Architects with design input and recommendations
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of cybersecurity, information security operations, or related information technology operational functions experience
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology or related discipline
- Prior job experience maintaining and troubleshooting IDS/IPS devices
- Certification in one or more of the following: Security+ or CISSP
- Experience with Linux
- Experience with packet analysis
- Knowledge of databases
- Knowledge of networking and network protocols
- On-call availability for network impacting or network outage situations outside of business hours
- Ability to effectively work within a Security team, and support and collaborate with other teams
- Ability to obtain a security clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Networking+, CEH, GCIH, CCNA Route Switch or CCNA Security, CCNP Route Switch or CCNP Security, CCIE Route Switch or CCIE Security
- Experience with threat analysis, triage, and mitigation
- Understanding of NGFW ACLs
- Experience writing Snort rules
- Proficiency with Wireshark
- Experience with Splunk
- Ability to write clear procedural and technical documentation
- Knowledge of external authentication and user management
- Experience troubleshooting network problems at layers 1, 2, and 3
Posted On: Monday, June 11, 2018