Cyber Security Engineer – Principal

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first. At ManTech International Corporation, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.

Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Cyber Security Engineer with strong operational and systems administration background to join our team in the Chantilly, VA area.

The Cyber Security Engineer will support the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) activities of an Identity and Access Management (IdAM) engineering and operations team.  The Cyber Engineer will support the day-to-day operations and break-fix activities associated with an existing IdAM COTS and customized LINUX OS solutions, as well as system scanning, troubleshooting, remediation and recovery. 

The candidate will work with other break-fix System Administrators and will assist with maintaining the systems performance, metrics, trouble resolution, ticketing, patch management, maintaining ATO’s, continuous monitoring, and IAMS customer onboarding. The candidate will be in a 24/7 rotation after hours coverage for break-fix activities. Core hours for the team currently is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Anything outside of core hours is considered after hours support. 

Responsibilities Include, but are not limited to: 

• Assume hands-on Cyber engineering and operations responsibilities for an existing IdAM enterprise system 

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and report system and service performance status

• Utilize, monitor, and update ticket management (JIRA, ServiceNow) and collaboration/documentation (GitLab, Confluence) systems

• Integrate and onboard IT solutions based on user and organizational requirements

• Work with sustainment and engineering teams to ensure availability of the systems

• Collaborate with engineering and A&A staff with feature enhancements, security patches, hardening, and associated documentation to maintain security RMF requirements

• Deploy system enhancements into the Production environment

• Support IdAM/IAMS enablement tickets and onboarding process

• Provide support for Enterprise Directory Services, Identity Management Services, and Credentialing Services (PKI based Authentication and Authorization), and Enterprise Authorization services

• Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects

• Maintain up to date documentation of system components and configurations

• Provide subject matter expertise to other Cyber engineers and associated stakeholders

• Offer innovative solutions to system services, directories, databases, automation, configuration, continuous monitoring, and service integration

• Collaborate with QA testing team to aid in the DevOps life cycle of system releases 

• Maintain common security baseline for all systems 

• Support routine vulnerability scanning (EVSS), auditing, onboarding, and all systems have up to date security patches

• Assist with maintaining the health of IAMS and other systems

• Participate in meetings and provide written and verbal status updates

• Collaboration with internal/external stakeholders on production and operational issues and items

• Assist developers with integration and deployment of Identity and Access Management (IdAM) solutions

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. or relevant experience in the field

• Minimum of 10 years of combined IT, O&M, sustainment, break-fix, and cloud computing experience

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience working with Linux (RHEL) based operating systems

• Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting system break-fix activities 

• Minimum of 2 years of experience working in cloud and virtual environments

• Minimum of 1-year hands-on experience with PKI, IdAM COTS and customized solutions

• Prior Agile and DevOps experience 

• Security+ required 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with Oracle IdAM software including: Oracle Access Manager (OAM), F5 appliances, ABAC solutions, and Identity and Access and PKI management concepts in general

Security Clearance Requirement: 

• TS/SCI w/ Polygraph.

Physical Requirements: 

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

ManTech International Corporation, as well as its subsidiaries proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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