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