ECS

Endpoint Engineer III

ECS$130K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8 years of cybersecurity or security engineering experience in enterprise security operations.
  • Hands-on experience with EDR/EPP and endpoint security technologies.
  • Familiar with enterprise endpoint technologies like Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, or Trellix.
  • Strong understanding of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and sensitive data protection.
  • Proficient in troubleshooting complex security issues across various platforms.
  • Experience with security automation through scripting or integration.
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks like NIST and CIS Controls.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and optimize enterprise endpoint security technologies including EDR/EPP.
  • Maintain and configure Data Loss Prevention platforms across various channels.
  • Develop and tune endpoint and data protection security policies to reduce operational impact.
  • Implement data protection controls like classification, labeling, and encryption.
  • Support deployment, upgrades, and lifecycle management of security technologies.
  • Collaborate with IT and security teams to integrate endpoint security solutions.
  • Provide advanced troubleshooting for endpoint security and DLP issues, serving as a senior escalation point.
  • Conduct technical investigations into security events involving endpoint issues and data exposure.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and mentoring.
  • Engagement in a dynamic and collaborative work environment.
  • Support for obtaining a US Security Clearance.
  • Participation in on-call support for security incident response.
  • Access to resources for continuous learning and improvement.
Full Job Description
The Endpoint Engineer III is responsible for supporting the engineering, implementation, administration, and optimization of enterprise endpoint security and data protection technologies. This role works closely with the Security Engineering Manager, security operations teams, enterprise IT teams, infrastructure teams, and platform owners to ensure endpoint security controls are effectively deployed, maintained, and integrated across client environments. The Endpoint Engineer III serves as a senior technical resource for endpoint security along with supporting the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) program, providing advanced troubleshooting, platform administration, policy management, integration support, and technical guidance. The engineer will contribute to the continuous improvement of endpoint protection, data protection, security automation, and operational processes that strengthen the organization's overall cybersecurity posture.

Responsibilities
  • Endpoint Security Platform Administration: Administer, maintain, configure, and optimize enterprise endpoint security technologies including EDR/EPP, endpoint security agents, device controls, host-based security controls, and related technologies.
  • DLP Platform Administration: Configure, administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise Data Loss Prevention and data protection platforms across endpoint, cloud, email, web, and other supported channels.
  • Endpoint Security Policy Management: Develop, implement, maintain, and tune endpoint and data protection security policies and configurations to provide appropriate protection while minimizing unnecessary operational impact.
  • Data Protection Engineering: Support the implementation and operation of data classification, labeling, encryption, device control, and other technical controls designed to protect sensitive organizational information.
  • Platform Deployment & Lifecycle Management: Support enterprise deployment, upgrades, migrations, configuration changes, agent/sensor health, and lifecycle management of endpoint security and DLP technologies.
  • Platform Integration: Collaborate with enterprise IT, cloud, identity, network, infrastructure, and security teams to integrate endpoint security and data protection technologies with enterprise systems and services.
  • Advanced Troubleshooting: Serve as a senior escalation point for complex endpoint security and DLP platform issues, including agent/sensor problems, policy conflicts, performance issues, integration failures, and unexpected control behavior.
  • Security Investigation Support: Provide technical expertise during security investigations involving endpoint activity, potential data exposure, DLP policy violations, malware, suspicious activity, and other endpoint security events.
  • Policy Tuning & Optimization: Analyze endpoint and DLP platform activity to identify false positives, policy gaps, configuration issues, and opportunities to improve security effectiveness and user experience.
  • Security Automation Support: Develop and maintain scripts, integrations, and automation workflows to improve endpoint security administration, platform management, data protection operations, reporting, and response activities.
  • Operational Monitoring: Monitor the health, deployment status, reliability, and performance of security tool platforms, agents, sensors, policies, integrations, and supporting infrastructure.
  • Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, assist with complex engineering initiatives, and contribute to technical decisions related to endpoint security.
  • Technical Documentation: Develop and maintain engineering documentation, platform configurations, policy documentation, troubleshooting procedures, implementation guides, operational runbooks, and knowledge articles.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to strengthen endpoint security and data protection coverage, improve platform reliability, optimize policies and configurations, increase automation, and improve engineering and operational workflows.


Education Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field. Will consider experience in lieu of a degree.


Salary Range: $130,000-$160,000

General Description of Benefits

  • Experience: Minimum of 5-8 years of cybersecurity or security engineering experience supporting enterprise security operations environments.
  • Endpoint Security Experience: Hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting enterprise endpoint security technologies such as EDR/EPP, endpoint security agents, host-based security controls, device control, and related technologies.
  • Endpoint Security Platform Experience: Experience with enterprise endpoint security technologies such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trellix, or similar platforms.
  • Data Protection Knowledge: Strong understanding of DLP concepts, sensitive data identification, data classification and labeling, encryption, device control, and protection of data at rest, in use, and in transit.
  • DLP Policy Administration: Experience implementing, testing, troubleshooting, and tuning DLP policies and rules, including reducing false positives and evaluating the operational impact of data protection controls.
  • Enterprise Security Knowledge: Strong understanding of enterprise endpoint environments, Windows operating systems, identity and access technologies, networking concepts, cloud services, and security architecture.
  • Endpoint Troubleshooting: Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex endpoint security issues involving agents, operating systems, policies, applications, network connectivity, and security platform integrations.
  • Security Automation: Experience using scripting or automation to support security engineering, platform administration, troubleshooting, or operational activities.
  • Security Framework Knowledge: Familiarity with cybersecurity and data protection frameworks and standards such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Critical Security Controls, and ISO 27001.

Other Requirements of the position include:
  • Able and willing to obtain a US Security Clearance.
  • On-Call Support: Participates in on-call support to assist with security incident response, operational issues, and investigation activities to maintain continuous SOC coverage and response capabilities.

About ECS

ECS is a leading provider of digital solutions and services to the federal government. The company was founded in 2001 by Roy Kapani and has since grown to become a trusted partner to a wide range of government agencies. ECS offers a broad range of services, including cloud computing, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. The company has been recognized for its innovative solutions and has won numerous awards, including the AWS Public Sector Partner of the Year award.
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