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The engineer will investigate security events, unhealthy agents, policy failures, and endpoint-compliance issues; implement approved corrective actions; and validate that required endpoint protections remain operational and effective.\nThis role will coordinate agent deployment and endpoint remediation activities with Task 4 infrastructure personnel, support cybersecurity incident reporting, and maintain technical evidence for security-control and authorization activities.\nThis position is remote, with a preference for candidates located in the Chicago area.\nNote: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.\nDuties & Responsibilities\nThe Endpoint Security / ESS Engineer will:\nServe as a technical specialist for the McAfee/Trellix endpoint-security technologies supporting the DoD Endpoint Security Solutions environment. \nSupport administration, configuration, maintenance, and monitoring 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Task 4 infrastructure personnel. \nSupport endpoint-remediation activities involving operating-system configurations, security policies, agents, signatures, content updates, and approved software. \nConfirm that endpoints receive required policies, signatures, content, and product updates. \nValidate endpoint compliance following remediation, configuration changes, maintenance, or agent deployment. \nTrack endpoint-security findings, assigned owners, corrective actions, dependencies, deadlines, and closure evidence. \nSupport vulnerability remediation associated with endpoint-security configurations, agent health, or protection status. \nCollect and maintain logs, screenshots, reports, configuration information, and other evidence supporting remediation and compliance. \nCreate and update incident, problem, change, and remediation tickets in the designated workflow platform. \nSupport cybersecurity incident reporting by gathering relevant endpoint data, event details, logs, timelines, and investigative evidence. \nEscalate significant events, persistent policy failures, widespread agent-health issues, and unresolved compliance deficiencies. \nCoordinate with system administrators and asset-management personnel to reconcile endpoint records, agent status, and authoritative inventories. \nSupport security-control testing and provide endpoint-security evidence for RMF, ATO, ATC, audit, and inspection activities. \nDevelop endpoint-security compliance reports, agent-health summaries, event metrics, trend analyses, and briefing materials. \nMaintain endpoint-security procedures, configuration documentation, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and technical knowledge articles. \nRecommend technical and process improvements that strengthen endpoint protection, agent health, monitoring, and compliance reporting. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nActive Secret clearance or higher. \nBachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a 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application, and cybersecurity teams. \nFamiliarity with Host Based Security System technologies or legacy McAfee capabilities used within DoD environments. \nExperience supporting cybersecurity incident analysis, evidence collection, escalation, and reporting. \nKnowledge of the DoD Risk Management Framework, NIST SP 800-53 controls, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, and applicable DoD endpoint-security requirements. \nExperience providing technical evidence for ATO, ATC, security-control assessment, audit, or inspection activities. \nFamiliarity with ACAS or Tenable, STIG Viewer, SCAP tools, eMASS, ServiceNow, or comparable cybersecurity and workflow platforms. \nExperience reconciling endpoint-agent status with configuration-management or asset-inventory records. \nExperience developing endpoint-compliance reports, agent-health metrics, event trends, and remediation dashboards. \nAdditional certifications such as CySA+, CASP+, CISSP, Trellix product certifications, or 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It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.\n Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.\n Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. 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