**ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED**
Responsible for building/maintaining data-pipelines for associated information used for cybersecurity investigation within the enterprise. In this role you will have the opportunity to contribute to one or more areas including (but not limited to) data ingest, data normalization, SIEM management, Linux/Windows host administration, virtual machine (VM) management, and cloud asset management. To support our team, you will need to be experienced, driven, and have strong Linux, Windows, and/or networking experience. You will be collaborating closely with peers and customers which means you need to be an active listener, detail oriented, and a clear communicator.
What you get to do:
- Resolve escalated issues and perform root cause analysis for complex issues
- Have ability to communicate with program SMEs as well as other customers with less technical backgrounds
- Demonstrate a high attention to detail, examining every aspect of the system
- Be able to multi-task, working with several different customers in various stages of onboarding process
- Apply Configuration Management disciplines to maintain hardware/software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
- Coordinate and conducts event collection, log management, event management, compliance activities, and identity monitoring activities for the customer's system
- Works with other Service Providers to support areas of common interest
- Provide all preventative and corrective maintenance to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure service availability
- Maintain system availability and reliability with a threshold of 99.99%
- Detect and ticket degradations (volume/velocity) of all SIEM data flows within 60 minutes of the start of the degradation
- Perform day-to-day maintenance, and specific scheduled maintenance activities that result from manufacturers recommended service intervals, alerts, bulletins, available patches, and updates according to agency approved change management processes
- Execute emergency maintenance actions with sufficient urgency to preclude unacceptable outage durations, approved by the Government prior to execution, and coordinated through and approved by CSOC and ESC government management
- Perform all development, engineering, testing, integration, and implementation actions necessary for major vendor revisions
- Retain documentation regarding loss of event logs (e.g. June 5-7th DNS logs were not ingested from SBU and are lost)
- Configure all assets assigned to this service within the Government Furnished Information - Software Tools list in accordance with all Federal, DoD, IC, and NGA laws, directives, orders, polices, guidance, procedures etc.
- Utilize agency approved ticketing systems to document, track, assign, update, and coordinate all engineering, integration, configuration, and maintenance actions
Qualifications:
What you need:
- 5+ years of Systems Engineer or similar experience
- IAT II certification and obtain CSSP Infrastructure Support certification 120 days of hire
- Possesses a strong work ethic, be self-directed, and be a detail-oriented professional
- Willing to learn and adapt to new, cutting-edge technologies
- Possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
- Demonstrated ability to use problem solving techniques such as root cause analysis to resolve issues
- Advanced Linux proficiency
- Knowledge of network communication principles, common infrastructure components (IPAM, DNS, DHCP), load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
- Experience with hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V
- Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques
Ideal qualifications:
- Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Google, Rackspace.
- Experience with private clouds such as VMWare, OpenStack.
- Strong background in Unix, or Windows servers.
- Experience with SIEM technologies such as Elastic, Splunk, and/or ArcSight
- Familiarity with Cribl data aggregation/normalization technology
- Scripting experience with Python, Bash, and/or Powershell
Additional Information
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- Compensation is unique to each candidate and relative to the skills and experience they bring to the position. The salary range for this position is typically $90-95k. This does not guarantee a specific salary as compensation is based upon multiple factors such as education, experience, certifications, and other requirements, and may fall outside of the above-stated range.
- Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match, Accrued PTO, STD/LTD/Life Insurance, Referral Bonuses, professional development reimbursement, and more!
D2 Consulting is committed to a merit-based recruitment process and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. As a Veteran-Owned Small Business, we particularly welcome applications from veterans who have the requisite skills and experience. Job applicants that are interested in one of our openings and may require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, should contact us to request an accommodation.
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What We Do
D2 Consulting provides services to the Federal Government focused in the following three area's
We leverage D2 Consulting engineering, operations and governance best practices to efficiently and effectively deploy, maintain and continuously improve IT services and solutions. This includes not only engineering solutions such as VDI and providing direct support to operations but also deploying the tools to instrument and maintain Enterprise performance and availability (including ITSM and Enterprise Management Tools).
Protect & Secure: This is our cyber security practice, which includes functions like audit and information assurance, as well as the traditional mechanics of securing IT systems and services. We have experience working with the Government to better manage risk to help move the accreditation process along. This is especially true with respect to adapting accreditation controls to a cloud environment.
Cloud Migration and Data Center modernization/consolidation: This area is focused on cloud migration and adoption as well as data center consolidation. We work to ensure that infrastructure requirements are implemented correctly, according to best practices and in a timely manner.
