Senior SOC Engineer-| TS/SCI Clearance Required

Clearance Required: TS/SCI Title: SOC Engineer, Senior Level Location: Columbia, MD Salary Range: $155-170k/yr Minimum Years of Experience: 4+ IAT Certification Level: CASP+, CISA, CISSP, GCIH, CEH, GIAC, GCIA, CCNP-Security and CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND. Vendor Certification Required: Microsoft, Cisco, Splunk, Linux, or any other related vendor certification Description: The SOC Engineer works with the customer to determine log management and SIEM needs, evaluate existing systems, for improvements, gaps, and next generation architecture and design.Designs and deploys new systems and upgrades existing systems as needed to meet customer needs and protect systems from emerging threats.The SOC Engineer will identify gaps in malicious activity detection capabilities, create new signatures / rules to improve detection of malicious activity and test and tune existing signatures / rules to ensure low rate of false positives.SOC Engineer will assist in playbook development for alert triage and Incident Response.Define and implement alert and threat detection metrics, statistics, and analytics.Recommend new tools/technologies to improve network visibility.Support Incident Response and Forensic operations as required to include static/dynamic malware analysis and reverse engineering.Author and maintain scripts for threat detection and automation.Will be responsible for creating, modifying, tuning IDS signatures/SIEM Correlation Searches and/or other detection signatures. SOC Engineer will have direct hands on experience with tools such as Logstash, Podman, Docker, Splunk, Corelight, Security Onion, Windows Operating System, and Red Hat Enterprise License. 4+ years of Experience working as an information security analyst or engineer. SOC experience is a plus Preferred: Python and/or Ansible Scripting experience Prior military experience We offer a competitive benefits and compensation package and FUN place to work! Benefits include, but not limited to: Health and Wellness Benefits Medical Insurance (three CareFirst healthcare plans to choose from, Dental and Vision Insurance, 75% covered for employee/ 50% per dependant Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions $1500 individual/ $3000 family Personal Insurance Benefits Company-paid Life Insurance and AD&D coverage Company-paid Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance Paid Leave Employees receive 20 days of vacation/10 holidays built into hourly rate/ 5 days of Administrative time (currently used for snow, jury, bereavement) Retirement Pre-tax 401k program including 6% company match 100% fully vested from eligibility date *Eligible after 90 days of employment