Senior Cyber Security Engineer

ASRC Federal is a leading government contractor furthering missions in space, public health and defense. As an Alaska Native owned corporation, our work helps secure an enduring future for our shareholders. Join our team and discover why we are a top veteran employer and Certified Great Place to Work™

ASRC Federal is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to support our internal infrastructure.

This position will be remote.

Key Role:

Responsible for leading, supporting, and promoting the development, deployment, operation, monitoring, documentation, and oversight of cybersecurity controls and processes.

Essential Job Functions:

• Manages and communicates cybersecurity threats, risks, and state of controls to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and stakeholders.
• Implements and operates security controls and automation across multiple cybersecurity subdomains. Ensures security controls are well designed, effectively implemented, and aligned with organizational policies. Designs and implements automated solutions for efficiently managing cybersecurity risk.
• Facilitates and supports security event and incident response activities.
• Defines, enforces, and promotes information security policies and related governance artifacts and processes.
• Ensures compliance with applicable regulatory and contractual requirements, specifically Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and NIST 800-171 and NIST 800-172 frameworks.
• Manages security vendor relationships; ensure vendors comply with contractual commitments.

Specific areas of knowledge or demonstrated capabilities applicable to this position may include the following:

• Threat hunting, detection, and response, potentially including the use of AI/ML techniques to detect and prioritize system-specific anomalous activity.
• Hands-on coding experience a strong plus, especially as applied to creating tools and automation to customize, optimize, and enhance security controls.
• SIEM technology, especially Splunk.
• Securing Cloud environments
• Common information security vulnerabilities and attack patterns
• NIST SP 800-series publications.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, cybersecurity, or technical field preferred
• Minimum of ten (10) years' experience in multiple cybersecurity domains appropriate to the job description, including designing, operating, monitoring, and assessing security controls for cybersecurity systems and IT networks
• Substantial experience using a variety of tools and resources to identify cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, configuration defects, and other deficiencies to determine root cause and identify remediation strategies and countermeasures.
• Understanding of common cybersecurity vulnerabilities and attack patterns and ability to explain how they are both exploited and countered.
• Must demonstrate intellectual curiosity and attention to detail, with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain a Secret clearance is desired for access to secure facilities, as needed.

We invest in the lives of our employees, both in and out of the workplace, by providing competitive pay and benefits packages. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.

EEO Statement

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.