Arkime Engineer (Cyber Engineer)

Recro, a Certified Small Business, helps federal agencies achieve their goals through IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud services, and digital transformation. We prioritize innovation, employee growth, and a collaborative work environment, guided by our core value - to make a difference.

Currently, Recro is seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Arkime Engineer (Cyber Engineer), to join our team in McLean, VA, JB Andrews, MD, Norfolk, VA, Tampa, FL, Colorado Springs, CO, Reston, VA, College Park, MD

Clearance

• TS/SCI (Willing to Obtain a CI Poly)

Responsibilities:

We are seeking a highly skilled Arkime (formerly Moloch) Implementation & Sustainment Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and enhance our enterprise packet-capture and deep network visibility capability. The ideal candidate combines hands-on Arkime expertise with strong Zero Trust engineering principles to support threat detection, forensics, segmentation, and continuous monitoring across a complex, distributed environment. You will directly improve the organization's ability to detect threats early, respond faster, and understand network behavior at scale-ensuring that identity-driven, least-privilege policies are backed by deep telemetry and forensic depth This role will drive full lifecycle engineering-from architecture and deployment to tuning, integrations, sustainment, and long-term optimization-while partnering with cross-functional security, network, and platform teams.

• Architect, deploy, and configure Arkime clusters, capture nodes, viewer nodes, and storage subsystems.
• Design packet capture strategies aligned to network topology, mission requirements, and Zero Trust monitoring needs.
• Develop and automate deployment workflows using scripts, orchestration tools, and configuration management.
• Integrate Arkime with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and threat intel platforms to enrich detection and investigation workflows.
• Conduct regular tuning of parsers, views, tags, and sessions to support detection engineering and threat hunting.
• Perform version upgrades, patching, configuration changes, data lifecycle management, and log retention optimization.
• Align Arkime data capture with Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) telemetry requirements.
• Support development of visibility baselines, identity-aware policies, and segmentation enforcement strategies.
• Work with network engineering, cloud engineering, and security operations to ensure end-to-end telemetry coverage.
• Develop dashboards, queries, workflows, and documentation for SOC, detection engineers, and incident responders.
• Provide training, playbooks, and technical expertise to internal engineering and operations teams.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, network security engineering, or security operations.
• Strong background in packet analysis, PCAP management, DPI technologies, and network protocols (TCP/IP,
  DNS, TLS, HTTP, etc.).
• Familiarity with Suricata, Zeek, or other packet/flow analysis platforms.
• Experience engineering within a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), including segmentation, continuous verification, and identity-centric access.
• Proficiency with Linux systems administration, containers, and distributed systems.
• Experience leveraging SIEM/SOAR platforms and integrating packet telemetry with detection workflows.
• Familiarity with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, scripts) and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• Associate's degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, or Master's degree and 1+ year of experience supporting IT projects and activities. Years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Technician (IAT) Level II Certification, including Security+ CE, CCNA- Security, GSEC, SSCP, CySA+, GICSP, or CND Certification
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570.01-M Cybersecurity Service Provider - Infrastructure Support Certification, including CEH, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND certification within 30 days of start date

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining Arkime/Moloch in production environments.
• Experience with cloud networking and traffic inspection in AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Experience with Elastic Stack or similar search/index pipelines.
• Background supporting regulated or high-security environments (FedRAMP, DoD, IC, PCI, etc.).
• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, GCIH, GCIA, GNFA, GCED).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate technical findings into clear operational guidance.
• Comfortable leading discussions with engineers, analysts, architects, and leadership.

Benefits at Recro

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision
• 401k - 6% matching and 401k profit sharing
• PTO - 120 Hours
• Federal Holidays
• Education and Tuition Reimbursements
• Wellness Benefits
• A lot of cool gear!

Working at Recro

• A Great Culture - We are building a culture at Recro where amazing people (like you) can do their best work. If you are ready to grow your career and recro (re-invent) the way our clients operate, you have come to the right place.
• A Great Place to Work - Employees are treated like people, not line items. We work smart when we can and hard when we must but we always do it together, as a team. We are a team with tons of passion and enthusiasm to blaze new trails and improve the state of our clients, the broader community, and even the world.
• A Great Place to Contribute - We believe diverse perspectives improve each challenge that we face. We trust and enable our amazing people to accomplish amazing feats. At Recro, you will be empowered to deliver your best work.
• A Great Place to Grow - We believe in our people and maximizing your potential. At Recro, we continue to look into the future and invest in each other through teamwork, collaboration, and training.