Security Engineer - Secret Clearance Required - Zachary Piper LLC

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Security Engineer to provide security engineering support on the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) network supporting NIWC PAC. The security engineer will serve as a Network Monitoring SME and provide security engineering support to enhance the EDR capabilities within the ELK stack.This position is fully onsite in San Diego, California.

**Secret clearance required**

Responsibilities:

• Engineer and deploy a variety of security solutions inclusive of IGA, DLP, Endgame, and Puppet/MFA for auditing.
• Build and maintain a robust and efficient Elasticsearch cluster, including data ingestion, indexing, querying, and visualization.
• Optimize Elasticsearch cluster performance and scalability, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Elasticsearch/OpenSearch features and best practices, and provide thought leadership on data warehouse and analytics technology trends.
• Work with the teams to determine best practices for deployment and maintenance of system architecture and deploy within designated security requirements.
• Ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues
• Make data-driven optimizations, and resolve complex operational issues in production via improvements to designs, software, and processes
• Develop software for auditing and enforcing compliance with security policies
• Define and drive the implementation of security policies to ensure the security of the network

 Requirements:

•     Active Secret clearance – can hold a Top Secret
•      Extensive experience with Elastic Stack
•      Bachelor’s Degree (additional years of experience may be substituted)
•      IAT Level II certification- Example: Security+, CySA, GSEC, EC Council CND, CIAC SSCP, CCNA, GIAC SSCP

Desired Skills

• 5+ Years of Security Engineering Experience.
• Familiarity with DoD Network Security products (HBSS, ACAS, etc.).
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring products (McAfee SIEM, Splunk, INMON, Syslog, PCAP, etc.) and understand how to leverage their capabilities.
• Knowledge of AWS and/or Azure cloud instances.
• Experience with Elastic Stack, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Beats, including installing, configuring, maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting these products

Compensation:

160,000-170,000k - depending on years of experience and degree

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