[Hiring] Baseline Security Engineer @Agile Defense

Role Description

Agile Defense is hiring a Baseline Security Engineer to support one of our clients. We are seeking a motivated security professional with experience in cybersecurity operations, compliance, and risk management. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, helping to protect critical systems and support mission-focused objectives. If you are passionate about information security and are looking for your next challenge, we encourage you to apply.

• The Baseline Security Engineer will support the implementation and maintenance of cybersecurity controls.
• Conduct security and compliance assessments.
• Identify and mitigate risks.
• Ensure systems meet established security requirements.
• Collaborate with technical teams to address vulnerabilities.
• Support audits and security reviews.
• Maintain documentation.
• Help protect client systems from evolving cyber threats.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree and 5+ years of experience providing support to Information Technology (IT) operations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience providing support to Information Technology (IT) operations.
• Experience creating security baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks.
• Experience reviewing, developing, or customizing general security configuration baselines.
• Knowledge of NIST 800 Special Publication series guidance for risk management and security control implementation, including 800-30, 800-37, 800-53, 800-60, 800-63, 800-115, or 800-137.
• Knowledge of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE).
• Ability to create security baselines from scratch using vendor documentation.
• Ability to modify CIS and STIG benchmarks to meet organizational requirements.
• Ability to translate low-level security baseline requirements into high-level FISMA and NIST requirements and client-specific security.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with networking, including Cisco, Juniper, or Palo Alto.
• Operating systems, including Windows Server, Red Hat, or Linux.
• Cloud services, including AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Okta, O365, or ServiceNow.
• Mobile technologies, including iOS or Xen Mobile.
• Experience designing, building, and implementing automation tools, including Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, including CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Experience with container platforms, including OpenShift.
• Experience with chaos engineering and blue or green deployments.
• Experience with serverless, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and SAM.
• Experience with application performance analysis and monitoring, including ELK.
• Experience with JSON or YAML programming.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, CCNA, MSCE, RHCSA, EBSA, or ECSS Certification.

Benefits

• Health Insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• Paid Time Off.
• Holiday Pay.
• Short-term and long-term Disability.
• Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities.
• Other optional benefit elections.