Security Support Engineer Lead

Overview

Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Security Support Engineer Lead to provide support to our Federal government contract.

Responsibilities

• Provide management, development, and coaching of Cybersecurity System and Tool support staff.
• Serve as a technical liaison between sub-organizations, project managers, and vendors/clients.
• Provide engineering support, system administration, and software development for a variety of security operations tools/systems.
• Plan, test, and implement upgrades, patches, and system enhancements.
• Tune systems and tools to ensure high levels of system and infrastructure availability.
• Ensure robust systems security controls architectures based on current security best practices and industry frameworks.
• Manage/deploy and troubleshoot multiple endpoint security agent products.
• Establish and maintain cybersecurity system and tools operational metrics.
• Implement, manage, and proactively monitor central logging of feeds to enterprise SIEM for all systems and agents.
• Deliver after-hours on-call emergency support of systems, tools, and agents to address mission-impacting issues.
• Provide system and tool specialized training and technical guidance.
• Ensure adherence to change management practices for systems and agents.
• Deploy and maintain adequate development test capabilities/environments for systems and agents.
• Research, identify, and implement proof of concepts for emerging and innovative technologies.
• Perform health and performance monitoring of systems and agents, addressing all significant issues with thorough documented root cause analysis.
• Update/create documentation for systems/tools as needed.
• Participate in special projects as required.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in network engineering, computer engineering, electrical/electronic engineering, or an equivalent engineering discipline.
• 12+ years of combined technical experience in systems security solutions at the enterprise level.
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication.
• Project management experience, capable of delegating and assigning tasks with the ability to manage through completion.
• Ability to manage team/individual capacity to ensure team members are not overwhelmed while managing coverage of all tasks.
• Strong technical hands-on experience in implementation and operation of systems security technologies.
• One or more certifications in information security or networking.

Experience, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent teamwork skills and ability to collaborate with a diverse team of skilled cybersecurity professionals.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Strong Windows and Linux administration experience.
• Active Directory and Group Policy management experience.
• Experience with enterprise-level backup products.
• Experience in integrating, configuring, and system administration of security tools.
• AWS Cloud experience.
• Experience deploying and managing SIEM products.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

• Experience with network monitoring tools.
• Hands-on experience with VMWare.
• Experience deploying and managing a SAN.
• Federal government or federal contracting experience.
• Experience in using Jira and Agile methodology.

Salary - $140,000 - $180,000 DOE

About Us:

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other status protected by applicable law.