Cyber Detection Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is currently seeking an Cyber Detection Engineer who will support a government contract in Springfield, VA.

Responsibilities for the Cyber Detection Engineer:

• Maintains an infrastructure of over several hundred virtualized intrusion detection and network traffic analysis sensors located in multiple locations
• Initiates and oversees the creation, deployment and tuning of thousands of Snort and custom IPS/IDS signatures
• Remotely manages Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers via UNIX shell, VMWare ESXi, and HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) and HP Onboard Administrators (OA)
• Makes recommendations to improve overall security posture to senior management
• Creates and customizes ArcSight connectors to maintain the collection and redirection of syslog, HBSS, scanning and other appliance logs from enterprise networks to central manager
• Troubleshoots physically cabled network connections, network routing protocols, media converters, hardware, and various vendor specific tools
• Creates Linux BASH scripts to automate administrative tasks



Qualifications for the Cyber Detection Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree or 2+ of additional cyber experience in lieu of degree
• Clearance: TS/SCI CI Poly
• 3+ years of experience with modern Windows, UNIX, Linux, network operating systems, databases, and virtual computing
• Experience performing analysis of network traffic and correlating diverse security logs to perform recommendations for signature development

Compensation for the Cyber Detection Engineer:

• $90,000 – $100,000 *Depending on Experience.
• Cigna Medical, dental, vision, Holidays, 401k, PTO and Sick leave as required by law

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