Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc. · 8 hours ago
Security Support Engineer Lead
Bethesda, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $180K/yr
12+ years expEdgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD, seeking a Security Support Engineer Lead to provide support to their Federal government contract. The role involves management, development, and coaching of cybersecurity support staff, as well as providing engineering support and ensuring robust systems security controls architectures.
Information ServicesInformation TechnologyProfessional Services
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
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
Company
Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.
Edgewater Federal Solutions was founded in 2002 with the mission of being the best IT consulting company possible for our government clients, our contracting partners and our employees.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Tom Ferrando
CEO
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