Salary: $80-90/hr
Location: Dulles, VA
Remote: N
Clearance: Top Secret or Secret

We are seeking Security Operations Center Lead. The SOC Lead will lead a team of security engineers with extensive technical experience in enterprise data networks, systems engineering and architecture, security monitoring, capacity planning, systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, and troubleshooting. The team’s primary mission is to manage SOC and incident response teams by delivering and operating critical network threat detection and forensics services. The services include IDS/IPS, SIEM, case management, and packet capture.

Qualifications:

Must be a US Citizen
Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability prior to starting employment
Must have 4+ years of applicable, hands-on experience management in SOC environments in both personnel and technology to include all aspects of personnel management including hiring, performance management, training/compliance, annual salary planning and all other dimensions.
10+ years of directly relevant experience
Minimum 3 yrs of professional experience working with AWS & Azure infrastructure and services in a security-focused role
Advanced knowledge of AWS & Azure architectural concepts.
Experience developing and implementing SIEM threat detection rules.
Demonstrated experience administering Linux-based systems.
Excellent written and oral communication skills

Responsibilities:

Plans, directs, and coordinates the Security Operations Center for the program.
Work closely with technical leadership (government / program / management)
Develop and present performance reports and metrics
Develop and meet performance management requirements
Provide technical leadership for an engineering team of cloud security specialists.
Consult with cloud team and leadership to set the direction for security monitoring and threat detection.
Ensure the successful integration of cloud logging and security monitoring services with SIEM.
Direct the development and implementation of rules/signatures in SIEM, and other monitoring platforms, to detect and alert on suspicious activity in the prime contractor’s public cloud environments.
Direct the deployment and management of cloud logging and security monitoring services for AWS and Azure Cloud environments.
Provide guidance and direction on operations for cloud-based Cyber Defense systems and services
Support cloud-related service migrations to AWS or Azure.
Provide guidance on system administration of Cloud based automation tools.
Direct the development of Infrastructure-as-Code playbooks (e.g. Terraform)
Ensure testing and evaluation of new cloud services.
Direct a team on Incident Response / security investigations in cloud environments.
Ensures proper implementation of required government policy (i.e., NISPOM, DCID 6/3, ICD, NIST) and others leading team to ensure compliance across all activities

Job Category: Information Technology

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: VA

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