OverviewEdgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Security Support Engineer Lead to provide support to our Federal government contract.
**Due to the nature of the contract and customer US Citizenship is required. Responsibilities- Provide management, development, and coaching of Cybersecurity System and Tool support staff.
- Serve as a technical liaison between sub-organizations, project managers, and vendors/clients.
- Provide engineering support, system administration, and software development for a variety of security operations tools/systems.
- Plan, test, and implement upgrades, patches, and system enhancements.
- Tune systems and tools to ensure high levels of system and infrastructure availability.
- Ensure robust systems security controls architectures based on current security best practices and industry frameworks.
- Manage/deploy and troubleshoot multiple endpoint security agent products.
- Establish and maintain cybersecurity system and tools operational metrics.
- Implement, manage, and proactively monitor central logging of feeds to enterprise SIEM for all systems and agents.
- Deliver after-hours on-call emergency support of systems, tools, and agents to address mission-impacting issues.
- Provide system and tool specialized training and technical guidance.
- Ensure adherence to change management practices for systems and agents.
- Deploy and maintain adequate development test capabilities/environments for systems and agents.
- Research, identify, and implement proof of concepts for emerging and innovative technologies.
- Perform health and performance monitoring of systems and agents, addressing all significant issues with thorough documented root cause analysis.
- Update/create documentation for systems/tools as needed.
- Participate in special projects as required.
Qualifications- A minimum of a bachelor's degree in network engineering, computer engineering, electrical/electronic engineering, or an equivalent engineering discipline.
- 12+ years of combined technical experience in systems security solutions at the enterprise level.
- Clear and concise verbal and written communication.
- Project management experience, capable of delegating and assigning tasks with the ability to manage through completion.
- Ability to manage team/individual capacity to ensure team members are not overwhelmed while managing coverage of all tasks.
- Strong technical hands-on experience in implementation and operation of systems security technologies.
- One or more certifications in information security or networking.
Experience, Skills, and Abilities- Excellent teamwork skills and ability to collaborate with a diverse team of skilled cybersecurity professionals.
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Strong Windows and Linux administration experience.
- Active Directory and Group Policy management experience.
- Experience with enterprise-level backup products.
- Experience in integrating, configuring, and system administration of security tools.
- AWS Cloud experience.
- Experience deploying and managing SIEM products.
Preferred Qualifications and Experience- PMP Ceritification
- Experience with network monitoring tools.
- Hands-on experience with VMWare.
- Experience deploying and managing a SAN.
- Federal government or federal contracting experience.
- Experience in using Jira and Agile methodology.
Salary - $140,000 - $180,000 DOE
