Cybersecurity Engineer II
Job Description
Washington, DC (onsite) Cybersecurity Engineer II role with Electrosoft, supporting customer SOC technologies through engineering, sustainment, and detection engineering. This position focuses on deploying and operating Government-approved SOC capabilities, improving detection quality, and delivering well-documented solutions for operational use.
Compensation: USD 150,000 - 160,000 per year.
Experience: 3 years minimum.
Education: Bachelor’s degree.
What you’ll do
- Support cybersecurity architecture and end-to-end engineering activities, including research, evaluation, prototyping, integration, deployment, and sustainment.
- Deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Government-approved SOC technologies.
- Enable technical integration and interoperability between SOC tools, platforms, sensors, applications, workflows, and data sources.
- Develop engineering documentation such as configuration information, test plans, diagrams, deployment records, and handoff documentation.
- Support Government technical change-control activities.
- Develop and test detections and custom SOC capabilities, including dashboards, scripts, analytics, interfaces, automation, and related implementations.
- Tune sensors, rules, alerts, and analytics to improve detection quality and reduce false positives.
- Test and validate capabilities prior to operational deployment.
- Support knowledge transfer and maintain technical documentation for Contractor-supported capabilities.
How the work fits together
The Cybersecurity Engineer II supports engineering and deployment of SOC tools, sensors, platforms, enclaves, and supporting capabilities. Responsibilities include technology research, evaluation, prototyping, integration, deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting across the SOC environment.
Detection engineering and custom SOC capability development are central to the role, covering development, testing, tuning, and sustainment of analytics, detections, dashboards, scripts, interfaces, automation playbooks, and related capabilities. Developed solutions are validated prior to operational use, with documentation covering configurations, dependencies, limitations, and sustainment considerations.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree.
- Experience: 3 years.
- Education substitution: 3 additional years of experience in lieu of degree.
- Certification: IAT II level certification.
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