Location: Sterling, VA
Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI CI Poly - Required
Job Type: Full-Time
Target Salary Range*: $145,000 - 170,000
*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary
Position OverviewThe Amatriot Group is seeking a Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer to join Intel project based in
Sterling, VA. Cloud security engineers are an integral part of the development team and are
expected to be flexible and adaptive to supporting the needs of the program. Responsibilities
include serving as information security specialist, reviewing all software, hardware, and
infrastructure changes on the contracts, following the risk management framework process to
support system accreditation, continuous monitoring, security mitigation; maintain security
documentation, and other tasks as necessary. Additionally, candidate will be integral to
development of new cyber monitoring, cyber hardening, and cyber response plan for large
program with multiple applications. As an engineer on the program, candidate will be
responsible for researching, designing, testing, and implementing cyber security features that
meet new and demanding environments. The right candidate will understand software
development, system administration, networking, and security and be able to take a holistic
systems level approach to influence how we build our applications to meet the higher level
security requirements associated with a system that bridges security domains, as well as
someone who can help the software engineers understand zero trust architecture for a multireleasability
domain
- Serve as a cybersecurity subject matter expert across system-level architecture and
operational environments. - Perform hands-on Linux administration tasks including:
- Navigating the command line and executing audit and log analysis.
- Running vulnerability scans and supporting OS hardening.
- Supporting system patching and configuration management efforts
- Generates certification and accreditation (C&A) documentation and artifacts (ie. System
Security Plans, Network Interface Planning Documents, etc.) for import / upload to the
SNOW tool. - Conduct network troubleshooting to identify, diagnose, and mitigate potential
cybersecurity vulnerabilities. - Provide cloud-focused security support, including:
- Managing AWS security group rule changes, IAM roles and policies, and
VPC/network requests. - Ensuring proper logging, monitoring, and access controls across AWS
environments.
- Managing AWS security group rule changes, IAM roles and policies, and
- Collaborate with development teams to create, maintain, and monitor data connections,
NPE security certificates, firewall connection requests. - Continually implement and improve DevSecOps process maintained in Linux/Cloud
based development environment. - Coordinates with appropriate Security Control Assessors (SCAs) early in engineering
design phase for ongoing coordination, understating in development and application of
security controls, and security tradeoffs and other decisions.
- Bachelors Degree in relevant technical field (Information Systems, Systems
Engineering, IT, Computer Science, etc.) - Additional Years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
- 5+ years of combined experience in:
- Linux System Administration
- Cybersecurity engineering or information assurance.
- Cloud-based environments, preferably AWS.
- 7+ years of relevant experience if lacking relevant degree.
- Understanding of engineering in software development within operational
environments. - Experience with vulnerability assessment tools, audit log assessment, and system
hardening practices.
- IAT Level II Compliant certification required prior to starting.
- Prior experience supporting Intel Community Application Development contracts.
Skills Required
- Active TS/SCI CI Poly security clearance
- IAT Level II certification required prior to starting
- Bachelor's degree in relevant technical field (or additional years of experience in lieu of degree)
- 5+ years combined experience in Linux system administration, cybersecurity engineering/information assurance, and cloud-based environments (preferably AWS)
- Hands-on Linux administration: command-line, audit/log analysis, vulnerability scans, OS hardening, patching, configuration management
- Experience managing AWS security: security group rule changes, IAM roles/policies, VPC/network requests, logging and monitoring, access controls
- Experience producing Certification & Accreditation artifacts (System Security Plans, Network Interface Planning Documents) and uploading/importing to SNOW
- Network troubleshooting and firewall configuration experience; knowledge of NPE security certificates
- Experience implementing and improving DevSecOps processes in Linux/cloud development environments
- Understanding of zero trust architecture and ability to guide software engineers on secure system design
- Prior experience supporting Intel Community Application Development contracts
What We Do
The Amatriot Group is a talent solutions firm providing technology expertise to the federal and commercial sectors. With over a decade of experience delivering mission-critical support to the intelligence, defense, and national security sectors, the company specializes in delivering cutting-edge technology solutions by securing top-tier talent to bridge workforce gaps in the most complex and secure environments.
