Baseline Security Engineer

Requisition #: 1993

Job Title: Baseline Security Engineer

Location: Remote

Clearance Level: Public Trust

Job Description

SUMMARY

Agile Defense is hiring a Baseline Security Engineer to support one of our clients. We are seeking a motivated security professional with experience in cybersecurity operations, compliance, and risk management. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, helping to protect critical systems and support mission-focused objectives.If you are passionate about information security and are looking for your next challenge, we encourage you to apply.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Baseline Security Engineer will support the implementation and maintenance of cybersecurity controls, conduct security and compliance assessments, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure systems meet established security requirements.

The role involves collaborating with technical teams to address vulnerabilities, supporting audits and security reviews, maintaining documentation, and helping protect client systems from evolving cyber threats.

Education and Background

• Bachelors Degree and 5+ years of experience providing support to Information Technology (IT) operations.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience providing support to Information Technology (IT) operations
• Experience creating security baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks
• Experience reviewing, developing, or customizing general security configuration baselines
• Knowledge of NIST 800 Special Publication series guidance for risk management and security control implementation, including 800-30,800-37, 800-53, 800-60, 800-63, 800-115, or 800-137
• Knowledge of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE)
• Ability to create security baselines from scratch using vendor documentation
• Ability to modify CIS and STIG benchmarks to meet organizational requirements
• Ability to translate low-level security baseline requirements into high-level FISMA and NIST requirements and client-specific security
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements

Preferred Skills

• Experience with networking, including Cisco, Juniper, or Palo Alto, operating systems, including Windows Server, Red Hat, or Linux, cloud services, including AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Okta, O365, or ServiceNow, or mobile technologies, including iOS or Xen Mobile
• Experience designing, building, and implementing automation tools, including Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, including CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with container platforms, including OpenShift
• Experience with chaos engineering and blue or green deployments
• Experience with serverless, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and SAM
• Experience with application performance analysis and monitoring, including ELK
• Experience with JSON or YMAL programming
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, CCNA, MSCE, RHCSA, EBSA, or ECSS Certification