Endpoint Security Solutions (ESS) Engineer

StratasCorp Technologies is hiring an Endpoint Security Solutions (ESS) Engineer to install, configure, and sustain Trellix/McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and associated endpoint security capabilities. The role supports endpoint defense, security compliance, infrastructure sustainment, and reporting across enterprise networks.

Responsibilities

• ESS Infrastructure Installation & Architecture: Direct, hands-on responsibility for designing, planning, installing, and configuring Trellix/McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) application servers, agent handlers, and database connections. Architect robust repository replication schemes and client deployment tasks designed to handle low-bandwidth, disconnected, or afloat network topologies
• Sustainment & Policy Management: Build, maintain, and sustain the ESS infrastructure through regular lifecycle upgrades, extension updates, and database maintenance. Create, test, and continuously tune host-based security policies across the enterprise to balance stringent security controls with system operational performance
• Application & Integrity Control (Solidcore): Plan, configure, and maintain Application Control (Solidcore) in both observation and enforcement modes. Manage dynamic whitelisting, establish trusted execution chains, and configure change control parameters to block unauthorized binaries and scripts
• Data Protection & Threat Prevention: Design, deploy, and monitor Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint policies to prevent unauthorized data exfiltration. Configure, deploy, and sustain legacy Enterprise Virus Scan Engines and modern Threat Prevention modules, host-based Firewalls, and Web Control
• Security, RSD, & Compliance: Implement and enforce DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) across the ePO hierarchy and managed client endpoints. Deploy and manage Rogue System Detection (RSD) sensors and policies to immediately detect, alert, and mitigate unauthorized assets connecting to the network
• Database & Compliance Reporting: Leverage relational database knowledge to directly interface with Microsoft SQL Server. Write custom SQL queries to troubleshoot ePO database synchronization issues, perform performance tuning, and generate real-time compliance dashboards for senior leadership

Skills

• Minimum of 5 years of direct, hands-on engineering experience explicitly focused on Trellix/McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) and associated Endpoint Security (ENS) modules, encompassing site system installation, database management, and host-level security policy creation
• Direct, hands-on responsibility for designing, planning, installing, and configuring Trellix/McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) application servers, agent handlers, and database connections
• Architect robust repository replication schemes and client deployment tasks designed to handle low-bandwidth, disconnected, or afloat network topologies
• Build, maintain, and sustain the ESS infrastructure through regular lifecycle upgrades, extension updates, and database maintenance
• Create, test, and continuously tune host-based security policies across the enterprise to balance stringent security controls with system operational performance
• Plan, configure, and maintain Application Control (Solidcore) in both observation and enforcement modes
• Manage dynamic whitelisting, establish trusted execution chains, and configure change control parameters to block unauthorized binaries and scripts
• Design, deploy, and monitor Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint policies to prevent unauthorized data exfiltration
• Configure, deploy, and sustain legacy Enterprise Virus Scan Engines and modern Threat Prevention modules, host-based Firewalls, and Web Control
• Implement and enforce DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) across the ePO hierarchy and managed client endpoints
• Deploy and manage Rogue System Detection (RSD) sensors and policies to immediately detect, alert, and mitigate unauthorized assets connecting to the network
• Leverage relational database knowledge to directly interface with Microsoft SQL Server
• Write custom SQL queries to troubleshoot ePO database synchronization issues, perform performance tuning, and generate real-time compliance dashboards for senior leadership
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Active Secret Clearance
• Security+ or equivalent
• DoD Endpoint Security Solutions (ESS) Administrator 201 (formerly HBSS) or higher

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