ACAS Engineer

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Program Overview

About The Role

What you'll do:

• Develop implementation, guidance, best practice information, schedules, and detailed product feature specifications to support integration of ACAS enterprise servers and services.
• Provide solution engineering to ensure systems and components meet current and future standards.
• ACAS Administration.
• Conduct testing of new ACAS technologies and create documentation to meet suspense dates.
• Provide performance tuning to systems and investigate issues with Tenable spanning a large and complex environment.
• Deploy, maintain, and perform tuning of Tenable scanners to meet current and future needs.
• Develop, create, deploy, and manage Tenable scan configurations to support scanning services to global enterprise.
• Ensure that the ACAS scanners and Security Center are operational and reporting properly.
• Assist customers in resolving ACAS issues, make recommendations as needed.
• Perform recurring vulnerability scans and create repositories, queries, and dashboards as necessary to ensure vulnerability report information is available.
• Investigate false positives or potentially confusing scan data results.
• Update and maintain tracking mechanism for false positives and track false positives until the finding is corrected; provide results upon resolution.
• Create/Update all documentation needed to support the ACAS teams requirements, taskings, deliverables, and maintenance of the ACAS solution.
• Install and configure updates to Tenable software as released and in compliance with STIG requirements.
• Perform site-specific Tier II support such as risk mitigation activities as part of change/configuration management to ensure smooth implementation and transition to ACAS.
• Support the research and analysis of DoD and AF policies and tasking orders to mitigate implementation problems that may impact the ACAS implementation.
• Create, modify, maintain, or provide input for supporting documentation to include, but not limited to system design specifications, diagrams, ports and protocols reports, implementation plans, process guides, security impact assessments, risk analysis, milestone forecasting, testing procedures, use cases, compliance documentation, eMASS and RMF support.
• Motivated self-starter with strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to create complex technical reports on analytic finding.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Non-Domain joinable device scanning.

What you'll need:

• Skills and expertise in the following technologies: SQL/XSQL Server Administrator (SA), MAC O/S and security, Information Assurance (IA), IP Data Networking and Vulnerability Assessment product engineering and design, REM 3.X/Retina 5.X and greater. Implementing National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and RMF standards and framework.
• Experience running ACAS on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Hands-on experience with general RHEL administration and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience with multiple network security zones, subnetting, VRFs, and VLANs.

Location: Baltimore metropolitan area

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields: Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or Information Technology with 8+ years of relevant experience; or Master's with 6+ years of relevant experience; Four years of additional experience can be accepted in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
• Active TS clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Active CompTIA Security+ certification.
• 8+ years of IT related experience preferred.
• 4-6 years Red Hat experience in a DoD enterprise network environment.
• 4-6 years of experience with Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS).
• RHCSA / Linux+ / Solaris, DISA ACAS 5.x preferred.

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Duration Statement: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.