About Peraton
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Program Overview
Engineering, integration, and cybersecurity support to design, build, and test enhanced services for the Department of Navy's IT architecture. Offers a wide range of roles, from cybersecurity experts to engineers specializing in systems, networks, software, and data center services.
About The Role
Peraton is seeking an Information Systems Security Engineering (ISSE) to collaborate on design efforts, provide security engineering, and lead the engineering of RMF B0E artifacts of a large-scale enterprise Information Technology (IT) program. Responsibilities include:
- Establish and maintain configuration and technical support to a unique community of users, assist in the technical design process, and provide guidance/direction to customer on how to best get value from the cyber platforms.
- Maintain, upgrade and troubleshoot the cyber platforms
- Install, upgrade and maintain required cyber security applications and add-ons.
- Provide performance and license tuning for systems and troubleshoot components across multiple network environments.
- Provide solution engineering support to ensure systems and components meet current and future standards.
- Develop, create, deploy, and manage custom monitors, alerts and dashboards.
- Monitor the cyber platforms for health status, and other issues, and resolve as needed.
- Follow approved DoD, STIG standards and DoD IAVA requirements.
- Manage patching and updates of the cyber platforms.
- Monitor and audit configurations and participate in the Change Management process to ensure that unauthorized changes do not occur.
- Build and integrate contextual data into notable events.
- Develop advanced scripts for the manipulation of data to support analyst requirements.
- Provide recommendations and implement changes to optimize the effectiveness of the cyber security platforms
- Perform integration activities to connect with 3rd party software APIs.
- Recommend innovative solutions to management and key stakeholders
Qualifications
Required:
- Must possess an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
- Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; 4 years of relevant work experience will be considered in lieu of a Bachelors degree
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in security engineering of Information Systems
- Proven experience performing Systems Security tasks including Security Information and Event Monitoring (Splunk); Endpoint security (HBSS); password and credential management (CyberArk); Compliance and vulnerability scanning (ACAS / Nessus); HashiCorp; and Code Scanning (Fortify), IDS/IPS (Cisco), open source tools Zeek, Snort, Surricata, Elastic.
- Familiar with Scrum methodologies
- Data Migration experience
- Strong scripting capabilities using RegEx.
- Monitor and maintain SIEM systems over multiple domains and systems.
- Create parsing scripts to ingest exotic logs into the SIEM solution.
- Design and implement defensive cyber security solutions to protect data, networks, and applications from unauthorized access, modification, or destruction.
- Design and implement defensive cyber security solutions to protect data, networks, and applications from unauthorized access, modification, or destruction.
- Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification (i.e., Security X)
Desired:
- Proven experience in application development, using programming and scripting languages such as Python, C/C++, Assembly, or Java.
- Knowledge of code analysis, code manipulation, and payload development.
- Knowledge of defensive tool development, threat detection, and incident response
SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range
Details
Target Salary Range: $104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
