Microsoft Security Engineer with Security Clearance

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Job description

Primary Responsibilities
• Conceptualize, design, build, and maintain current and future customer-supported tools and platforms.
• Manage multiple assignments and work independently with minimal oversight.
• Produce system design documents. Support architectural analysis of cyber security features and existing system related to future needs and trends.
• Review and provide input to system requirements based on cybersecurity posture.
• Compile industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs.
• Provide broad-based experience in IT Service Management and apply the experience to specific cyber security initiatives relating to system design, development, and operations and maintenance.
• Employ measures to ensure the deployed infrastructure is secure and available
• Advise and assist team members to deploy and configure collection services and tools.
• Develop processes to evaluate and improve all operating systems, hardware, software, and firmware solutions.
• Work closely with stakeholders to solve technical problems at the network, system and application levels.
• Collaborate, coordinate, and build relationships with customer representatives and external stakeholders.
• Conduct periodic architectural reviews of installed sensors to assess effectiveness and propose optimal installation alternatives as required.
• Draft technical documentation, reports, and presentations as needed for customer or internal use.
• Manage physical and virtual infrastructure and troubleshoot problems to successful completion.
• Create and manage shell scripts for task automation and log extraction
• Develop solutions to complex technical issues.
• Provide follow-up reports (technical findings, feedback, resolution steps taken) for root cause analysis, engineering technical assessments, and process improvement initiatives.
• Provide training and documentation for customer and internal teams.
• Review and approve documentation and diagrams (e.g., system specifications).
• Identify tasks and issues that may have an impact on service levels or schedules and provide realistic schedule and cost estimates.
• Maintain a current working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, security best practices, and technical standards.
• Communicate with other technical leads, IT groups, and customer reps so they understand all aspects of proposed changes/solutions. Basic Qualifications
• BS degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or related field and 10-12 years of prior relevant experience OR Masters with 8-10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Expertise with Azure services and components to build, manage, and maintain Azure Cloud environments.
• Experience with Active Directory (AD) and ADFS.
• Extensive automation experience with PowerShell and Shell Scripting for automating repeatable tasks and installations.
• Extensive knowledge of server operations and maintenance.
• Extensive experience managing enterprise networks.
• Understanding of cloud terminology, architecture, and tools to include installing, provisioning and monitoring.
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EOD) is required to support this program. Required Education/Experience
BS degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or related field and 10-12 years of prior relevant experience OR Masters with 8-10 years of prior relevant experience. Preferred Qualifications
• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining tools such as Tanium, Nessus, Forescout, and Cyberark in a hybrid-cloud environment.
• Experience automating management tasks with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with Linux administration (RHEL).
• Experience with PKI (Gemalto).
• Experience working among different Cloud Provider environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience developing in Bash, Python, and/or Powershell.
• Experience working with SIEM tools such as Splunk to ingest, normalize, store, and maintain data from endpoint, network, and application sourcetypes.

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