Cyber Security Engineer Job Description template and pdf with duties [2024]

Job summary 1

If you have experience implementing and maintaining cyber security programs, assisting with the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of technical infrastructure and data, participating in ongoing enforcement and monitoring activities, network access control, and security awareness training; we encourage you to apply for the Cyber Security Engineer position. We are seeking qualified candidates for a full-time Cyber Security Engineer. The Cyber Security Engineer will work as a part of a five-person security team made up of a technical lead, project manager, and several cyber security engineers.

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Assists with planning, implementation, and maintenance of a comprehensive enterprise-wide security program that protects the court system’s information systems.
Effectively responds to all reported security incidents and other reports of suspicious activity.
Manages user accounts; assures defined user authentication procedures are strictly followed for new account creations, account terminations, and account authority changes; performs routine user account auditing.
- Monitors networks and computer systems for security breaches, through use of software that detects intrusions, anomalous system behavior, and unauthorized network-attached devices.
- Plans and participates in cyber security improvement projects for the purpose of maintaining a mature security program for the courts.
- Ensures all operating systems and software applications in the court system enterprise are up-to-date with security patches as required by the IT Security Program.

Requirements & Skills 1

College level courses in network security, computer support, networking, or related field.
- Experience performing complex technical implementations with cyber security responsibilities.
- Experience as member of an enterprise technology support/implementation team.
- Demonstrated competencies in cyber security technologies.

Job summary 2

The Cyber Security Engineer will be expected to leverage open-source technology and industry standard programming languages to enhance cyber security operations. Success in this role will require delivery of engineering, software development, and build-automation projects in an agile environment.

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Provide high-quality, cost-effective engineering within platform to streamline and expedite incident response workflows
Builds automation around operations & software development processes (CI/CD)
Works with cross-functional teams and cross-business teams to drive broad-reaching technology initiatives
- Promotes best practices, design patterns, standards through workshops, knowledge sharing, and code walk-throughs
- Provides mentorship, advice, and skill enhancement to junior team members
- Participates in on-call after-hours support rotation to ensure that critical performance issues are resolved in a timely manner, in accordance with established customer expectations and SLAs

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Job summary 3

The Cyber Security Engineer will be responsible for engineering and implementing Company's Cyber Security program initiatives. This critical role ensures Company’s data are protected from unauthorized access and disclosure. We believe safeguarding our customers’ and partners’ information is more than just checking a box for compliance reasons; we believe it’s the right thing to do. We also believe a strong, adaptive Cyber Security program creates a virtuous cycle, one that builds trust with our customers and partners, which attracts more customers and partners, and so on. This role requires the individual to balance the needs of the businesses and available resources while developing and implementing solutions to secure the company. We expect the person in this role to apply cyber security industry best practices (NIST, CSA, OWASP, ISO) to evolve Company’s existing processes and technology at the pace of the business growth. You will be working with members across the enterprise, including technology, product, finance, and other parts of Company to understand their current cyber security state, then identifying gaps and engineering solutions to align with the security program initiatives. You will own both the engineering, implementation, and documentation functions related to security. You will also work closely with the IT Support and System Reliability Engineering teams to operationalize the solutions for the endpoints, infrastructure, and cloud services.

Duties & Responsibilities 3

Collaborate with business and technical members across to the enterprise to understand the current cyber security state
Identify gaps between existing controls and Company’s cyber security roadmap
Engineer the solutions (processes, technologies) to mitigate the control gaps
Present the proposed solutions to the Senior Information Security Officer
Document and implement the new security controls
- Collaborate with IT Support and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to operationalize the controls
- Develop FAQ/Wiki to communicate new security capabilities to the enterprise
- Take part of on-call rotation to triage any potential security incidents

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Job summary 4

Join our team as a Cyber Security Engineer. The Cyber Security Engineer is an integral role within the System Administration Department, and as such, all ideas, input and constructive recommendations will be highly valued. We are looking for a well-rounded individual that can speak with business leaders and design and support security solutions. This position requires a highly motivated team player who enjoys learning and being part of a forward thinking and client service-oriented culture.

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Job summary 5

We are seeking a Cyber Security Engineer who is able to develop, test, and document software systems to specifications.

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Develops, tests, and documents software systems to specification
Complies with internal and external standards
Performs peer reviews of team members’ designs, code, and documentation
Proficiency in multiple Programming languages
Knowledge of programming theory
Threat Models
- Secure Software practices
- Secure Boot
- Penetration Testing

Requirements & Skills 5

BS degree in Computer Science or related field.
10-15 years professional experience developing complex software systems on multiple platforms.
Solid understanding of programming theory and analysis
Experience with multi-threaded programming
Knowledge of automated test techniques and tools.
Ability to take initiative and carry out project tasks with minimal supervision.
- Strong problem solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work as a team member to creatively and cooperatively solve problems and complete tasks.
- Attention to detail and accurate record keeping abilities are a must.
- Proficiency with English language both written and verbal communication.

Job summary 6

We have an exciting opportunity to join us in supporting one of our valued customers as a Cyber Security Engineer.

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Comply with RMF, DoD Directive (DoDD) 8500.01E, DoD Instruction (DoDI) 8500.2, DoDI 8500.01, and DoDI 8510.01 and other Cyber Security guidance and directives as applicable.
- Ensure engineering activities (analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring) best meets (as resources allow) established requirements (e.g., RMF & DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide).
- Develop, review, and refine Continuity of Operations (COOP) package documentation and related artifacts.
- Review and provide inputs to the creation and maintenance of Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) package for Certification and Accreditation (C&A).

Requirements & Skills 6

Must have a current Security + certification. CISSP certification is desirable.
Candidate should have an understanding of the RMF process.
Must be detail oriented and possess the ability to work in a multi-disciplined environment with an adaptive personality.
Candidate should have excellent communication skills - both oral and written - and possess analytical skills to identify and fault isolate problems/issues, accurately assess relevance of information, generate and evaluate alternatives, and provide solution recommendations.
- Demonstrated knowledge of cloud based architecture is desired.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Outlook).
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related technical discipline and a minimum of 5 years work experience.

Job summary 7

In this Cyber Security Engineer role, you'll be responsible for supporting key security technology. You will manage architecture, design, implementation, and ongoing operations in a DevOps model. You will focus on automation, integration, service resiliency and business partnership.

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Serving as technical lead to support and onboard new security technologies and expand capabilities of existing systems
Defining, designing, and building enterprise cybersecurity solutions to protect against advanced cybersecurity threats across our diverse environment
- Developing use cases, threat detection logic and rules, and alerting in SIEM for response by Incident Detection & Response analysts
- Working with Incident Detection & Response to identify and recommend new internal and external data sources to develop additional threat detection logic
- Operationalizing Indicators of Compromise from intelligence feeds by developing, testing, deploying, monitoring and alerting rules into SIEM

Requirements & Skills 7

Have at least 5 years experience in assessing, architecting, designing, and implementing cyber security capabilities, including incident response, threat intelligence, security monitoring, and vulnerability management
Have experience with core enterprise infrastructure and security-supported technologies including data protection elements such as DLP, tokenization, encryption, endpoint security, and perimeter protection such as firewalls or WAF, SIEMs, IPS/IDS, and managed security services
Have Scripting experience with Bash, PowerShell, or Python and Security engineering experience with Windows, Linux, and Mac
- Have experience developing detection logic for enterprise SIEM systems and with exploitation techniques and use case development
- Have experience developing threat indicators for developing SIEM alarms and correlated alerts and IOC datasets(e.g., YARA, OpenIOC)
- Have experience with cybersecurity tools and software, E.g. Splunk, McAfee, CrowdStrike, Windows Defender, SELinux, Syslog, Palo Alto, and Cisco

Job summary 8

We are seeking a Cyber Security Engineer who under limited direction, develop security plans, policies, and designs. Configure, install, test, and turnup designed solutions for production use in government networks.

Duties & Responsibilities 8

Develop security plans, policies, and designs.
Configure and implement security solutions based upon the customer’s performance criteria and specifications
Conduct systems pre-test and acceptance tests to validate the designed performance criteria
Collaborate with government and /or subcontractors at customer site for security solution integration into existing infrastructure
Develop and perform technical presentations for customers
Serve as technical resource at customer briefings
- Mentor junior engineers and technicians
- Serve as technical lead on projects
- Perform other duties as required

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Job summary 9

The Cyber Security Engineer is responsible for supporting, administering, maintaining and optimizing infrastructure hardware and software. Will also participate in planning and executing IT security strategy including vulnerability management, security policy development and awareness training development.

Duties & Responsibilities 9

Supports, administers, maintains and optimizes infrastructure hardware and software. This includes but is not limited to network, telecommunications, security (including VPN and firewall), server, storage and datacenter components consisting of significant investment in the most advanced technical IT solutions.
Assists with strategic plan development, budget preparation and implementation of core IT infrastructure components.
Provides advanced level support to customers and coworkers for problems and issues reported through the IT Service Management system.
- Liaise with customers, other IT staff and vendors for design, planning, implementation and problem resolution.
- Responsible for performance monitoring and capacity planning on assigned solutions.
- Provides guidance and assistance with creation and maintenance of standards, policies and procedures within role specific responsibilities.

Requirements & Skills 9

Associates or other Technical Degree in Information Technology or Computer Systems or equivalent experience/expertise
Advanced IT System Certification, as appropriate/applicable
- Two years of relevant IT solutions experience/expertise
- Experience with Cisco and Palo Alto security environments preferred
- Must be able to maintin a positive attitude within a fast paced IT security environment

Job summary 10

We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to join our team.

Duties & Responsibilities 10

Apply an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop, validate and verify solutions across the lifecycle.
Conduct cyber risk assessment activities including threat modeling, vulnerability analysis and analysis of mitigation solutions.
Coordinate and addresses Supply Chain risk management concerns.
Develop, evaluate and analyze design constrains, trade-offs and detailed system and security design as they pertain to the domain.
Coordinate with system architects and developers to provide oversight in the development of solutions.
- Conduct cybersecurity test and evaluation of hardware and/or software designs to verify and validate compliance with defined specifications and requirements.
- Employ cyber security processes, methods, techniques and tools and assure their consistent application.
- Implement appropriate Assessment and Authorization activities as required by customers.

Requirements & Skills 10

CISSP certification (or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire).
Cloud development experience.
Experience implementing and validating RMF/ICD503 security requirements.
Experience developing Assessment & Authorization packages.
Experience performing cybersecurity activities in support of software and system requirements, design, development, testing, and sustainment.
Experience with XACTA, eMASS, HBSS, ACAS, SCAP Compliance Checker (SCC), DISA.
- Experience with Secure Configuration/Hardening of DoD Information Systems.
- Experience with RHEL.
- Experience with SIEM technologies.

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