Network / Cyber Security Engineer
Summary
The Network / Cyber Security Engineer will design, install, and maintain secure network infrastructures and database products while conducting risk assessments and vulnerability analysis. This role involves hands-on technical work, including malware analysis and forensic reconstruction, to support mission-critical systems.
Swift is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.
We are looking for a Network / Cyber Security Engineer to join a dynamic program providing unique technology expertise to multiple mission areas across software development, data engineering, technical integration, network engineering, and quick reaction development. The technical work is hands-on, lab discovery focused, and multi-disciplinary. The work location is the Tidewater region of Virginia.
Responsibilities:
- Design, install, test, and maintain state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database products
- Support a wide range of network facilities to include physical media, protocol stacks, hubs, routers, bridges, gateways, digital servers, line drivers, telecommunications components, and network management components
- Conduct risk assessment and provide recommendations for application design
- Troubleshoot a range of security issues including architecture, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access
- Analyze systems for malware, misuse, or unauthorized activity. Provide engineering support such as network-based instruction detection for systems
- Utilize encryption technology, penetration and vulnerability analysis of various security technologies, and information technology security research
- Convert customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
- Establish, document, and maintain system baselines and configuration management items
- Integrate new architectural features into existing infrastructures; design cyber security architectural artifacts; provide architectural analysis and relate existing system to future needs and trends; embed advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction; provide engineering recommendations; and resolve integration/testing issues
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (advanced degree preferred); equivalent experience may be substituted
- 10+ years of demonstrated combined network engineering experience and cyber security experience
- Knowledge of ICDs related to cyber security including (e.g., ICD 503)
- Ability to present technical approaches and findings clearly and effectively
- Ability to coordinate with multiple stakeholders concurrently
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required
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