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Security Engineer

Posted: 05/15/2025

Electrosoft Services, Inc. is an award-winning company that provides comprehensive technology-based solutions and services to federal customers. While cybersecurity is our specialty, we also focus on ICAM, enterprise IT modernization, and software solutions. We always seek to delight our customers, so we retain highly qualified employees and offer them meaningful work, growth opportunities, and work-life balance. What sets us apart from all other contractors is the sense of teamwork our employees feel – and the knowledge that outstanding effort is recognized and rewarded. The camaraderie we share emanates from Lunch & Learn sessions where we explore new ideas together, fun group activities ranging from escape rooms to miniature golf, and much, much more. If we’ve described you and your dream workplace, please apply and share in the many benefits and opportunities we offer.

Security Engineer

Responsibilities and Duties:

+ Possess a working knowledge of network technologies such as: Windows, Linux Operating Systems; Database security, Active Directory, Service Oriented Architectures, vulnerability testing, networking protocols and topologies, and security architectures.

+ Develops technical solutions including information operations and analysis related to security intrusion analysis, systems and vulnerabilities, network security, advanced analytic tools, data visualization techniques.

+ Experience with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and various companion documents.

+ Be well versed in IoT cybersecurity, including NISTIR 8228, NISTIR.

+ 8259, NISTIR 8259A, NISTIR 8259B, NISTIR 8425, and NIST SP 800-213, and NIST SP 800-213A.

+ Have the knowledge and experience to support the working groups of the Federal Chief Information Officers’ Council in the development of profiles of the NIST guidance, maintain the existing guidance documents and develop additional information resources as needed to support usage, and outreach in support of growing the usage.

+ Support working groups of the CIO Council in their development of profiles of the NIST IoT guidance for specific classes of IoT products or IoT product use cases.

+ Advocacy for international alignment of cyber related standards and labeling efforts use of the NIST baselines.

+ Creation of supporting guidance and materials for enabling organizations to use NIST IoT cybersecurity guidance more easily; and

+ Creation of plans and materials to conduct outreach to industry, standards organizations and Federal stakeholders to support adoption of NIST work in this area.

Basic Qualifications

+ Bachelor's degree with a curriculum or major field of study which is closely related to the work to be automated, and/or in a computer science, information system, cybersecurity, engineering, or a mathematics intensive discipline. A Master's Degree (in subjects described above) may be substituted for 2 years’ experience. A PhD (in subjects described above) may be substituted for 5 years’ experience. OR no college degree and 16 years of directly applicable experience coupled with and industry or vendor technical certification (e.g., CISSP, CIPA, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA, CCNE, SCSA, etc.).

+ At least twelve (12) years in technology-oriented security engineering support related to hardware, software, O/S and/or processes, and cybersecurity policy and guidelines.

+ Specialty knowledge of cybersecurity as demonstrated through at least 8 years of experience working on cybersecurity related topics.

+ Significant contributor to or authorship on prior NIST publications.

+ Previous cybersecurity experience in support of the Federal Government.

+ Citizenship Requirements: U.S. Citizen

Benefits:

+ Pay Range $140,000 - $150,000

+ The Electrosoft Services, Inc. pay range for this job position represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

+ We offer a wide range of benefits including health, dental, vision, and prescription benefits, retirement benefits, and paid leave.