Security Engineering

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Requisition #: 1439 Job Title: Security Engineering Lead Job Title for Careers Page: Security Engineering Lead Location: Reston, VA Clearance Level: Secret   SUMMARY   Agile Defense is seeking experienced Security Engineering Lead to support an enterprise cybersecurity program delivering 24/7 Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC) services. This role serves as the technical lead for SOC security engineering and modernization efforts, including the integration and sustainment of SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and IDS/IPS platforms. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with established standards, optimizing system performance, and driving continuous improvement across the enterprise security architecture. A highly technical self-starter with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, flexibility, good judgment and the ability to coordinate multiple, concurrent tasks in an effective manner.   JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES   Engineer, integrate, and maintain CSOC capabilities and platforms, ensuring effective configuration management and performance optimization. Advance Zero Trust principles, automation, and telemetry coverage across both cloud and on-premises environments. Assess and test emerging technologies; develop comprehensive technical reports and implementation plans to support modernization initiatives.   QUALIFICATIONS Required Certifications  

• Minimum required A+, Security+ or Network+; CISSP certification.

Education, Background, and Years of Experience

• Bachelor's Degree

  ADDITIONAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS Required Skills  

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience security administration systems and support.
• Strong working knowledge of Security Services, Networking, Security Policy, and Consulting.
• Proven experience in installing, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting network security solutions and related monitoring tools including Layer 2 / Layer 3 network devices, Network Admission Control (NAC), 802.1x, Firewalls, IDS / IPS, VPN Solutions, Web Application Firewalls, Content Filtering, fault analysis.
• Advanced working knowledge of encryption algorithms, Operating Systems (Linux, windows), secure communications, SIEM technologies, and embedded systems security.