Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. TORQ/SOAR Engineer to join our team in Arlington, VA (Hybrid). This position is contingent upon contract award.
The Sr. TORQ/SOAR Engineer serves as a technical leader and trusted authority for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) using TORQ. This role drives the design, deployment, and optimization of TORQ workflows in complex enterprise environments, enabling clients to automate security operations, incident response, and threat mitigation across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and containerized platforms. The engineer advises clients on automation strategy, operational best practices, and integration with enterprise security tools, ensuring efficient, reliable, and scalable SOAR implementations.
Join our Managed Security Services (MSSP) team at ECS, a leading provider of cybersecurity, cloud, AI, data, and enterprise transformation solutions. This is a high-impact position where you’ll collaborate with experts, work directly with strategic clients—including U.S. Federal agencies—and contribute to strengthening security operations through automation and orchestration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and deployment of TORQ SOAR solutions, including playbooks, automation workflows, and incident response orchestration.
- Develop and maintain graph-based or agentic automation workflows while optimizing performance through context management and advanced automation logic.
- Integrate TORQ with enterprise security tools such as Elastic Stack, Splunk, CrowdStrike, cloud workloads, and containerized platforms.
- Deploy and manage TORQ on platforms including public cloud, on-premises, and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Leverage automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible) to streamline deployment, maintenance, and operational tasks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure operations.
- Provide hands-on support, troubleshooting, and fine-tuning of TORQ playbooks and automation workflows.
- Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering knowledge sharing and skill development.
- Produce and maintain documentation reflecting best practices, integrations, and deployment architectures.
- Stay current on competing SOAR technologies (e.g., Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Siemplify, Demisto) and provide guidance on comparative capabilities or migration strategies.
- Deliver operational updates, status reporting, and technical recommendations to clients and ECS management.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication abilities.
- Able and willing to support domestic or international on-site travel with customers or at ECS offices. Any travel will be short in duration and well-planned.
- Possess and maintain a U.S. Passport.
- Must have a Secret Clearance, at minimum.
Skills Required
- Must have a Secret Clearance
- Leadership experience in SOAR implementations
- Experience with TORQ and automation workflows
- Strong communication skills
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
