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The role supports cloud-based computing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cross-domain transfer systems that provide cutting edge data exploitation, enrichment, triage, and analytics capabilities to the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. This is an on-site role in Bethesda, MD.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities\nProvide technical security expertise in securing, hardening, and maintaining compliance of cloud-based software platforms and infrastructure across multiple secure networks.\nCollaborate closely with compliance personnel, software engineers, system engineers, system architects, and Government counterparts to perform the full spectrum of systems and cyber security engineering tasks to ensure system regulatory compliance and security posture.\nValidate and verify system security requirements and establish system security designs for large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.\nRecommend and develop technical solutions, products, and standards based on current and desired system security architecture.\nEffectively collaborate with other internal technical experts on a day-to-day 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identifying common architectural patterns while accounting for CSP-specific capabilities and limitations.\nArchitect integrations between native security services and enterprise security platforms, including vulnerability management products, Stig evaluation, and SIEM.\nDesign, engineer, and implement enterprise network security architecture spanning next-generation firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, web and TLS proxies, VPN and encryption services, network access control, DNS security, and east-west security controls.\nEvaluate the current network security architecture, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, estimate level of effort, assess implementation risk, and develop practical engineering plans to strengthen enterprise security capabilities.\nProvide specifications for network security architecture, evaluate and recommend emerging security technologies, and perform needs assessments to inform design and investment decisions.\nTune and optimize security controls to reduce false positives, close coverage gaps, and improve detection and enforcement without degrading network performance or availability.\nMonitor system security status, identify risks and vulnerabilities, and coordinate remediation efforts with system owners, engineers, and other stakeholders.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor of Science degree from an accredited university ideally in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering or related field.\nMeet the applicable education and experience requirement in the Required Education and Experience Equivalency section.\nYou will lean on your experience with security technologies, industry best practices, vulnerability management, and risk management frameworks (RMF) to employ effective security solutions.\nMust have a solid understanding of security practices and policies and hands-on vulnerability testing experience using Customer tools.\nMust have experience applying Risk Management Framework.\nMust have demonstrated knowledge of and experience with common security tools, such as ACAS, Prisma Cloud, and Splunk/Elastic.\nExperience with SCAP or STIG based tools and specifications.\nExtensive experience designing enterprise security solutions and translating security requirements into implementable technical architectures.\nKnowledge of Kubernetes and container security architectures, including image security, admission controls, secrets, identity, network policies, software supply chain security, security scanning, and runtime protection.\nExperience designing solutions involving SIEM, vulnerability management, identity security, network security, secrets management, container scanning, and data protection technologies.\nExperience with data modeling and mapping system data flows for the purpose of cybersecurity analysis.\nUnderstanding of microservices architecture and service mesh.\nPreferred Qualifications\nActive TS/SCI with polygraph.\nExperience with Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) and cloud-based enterprise services, preferably AWS.\nFive (5) years of experience with Defense in Depth Principals/technology (including access control, authorization, identification and authentication, public key infrastructure, network and enterprise security architecture) and applying risk assessment methodology to system development.\nDoD 8570 compliance with IASAE Level 2 or 3.\nExperience installing, configuring, testing, deploying, operating, and maintaining enterprise network based scanning and reporting tools such as Trellix/ESS, ACAS, Evaluate STIG, SteelCloud ConfigOS, Prisma Cloud and STIG Manager.\nExtensive experience hardening modern operating systems, such as Oracle Linux and RHEL, as well as Microsoft Windows environments using Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).\nInformation Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) Certification.\nComputer Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification.\nDesign 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to start.\nU.S. citizenship is required\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nBase-2 Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 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