Senior Security Operations Engineer

Job

Title: Senior Security Operations Engineer

Location:

Washington, DC

Note:

This is an onsite position Place at NIGC Headquarters located at 550 12th

Street SW, Washington, DC 20024

Work

Authorization: Only US Citizen or Green Card candidate

• The

  Senior Security Operations Engineer is responsible for architecting,

  implementing, configuring, administering, tuning, and operationally managing

  enterprise cybersecurity technologies within complex production environments.

• This role requires extensive hands-on technical experience supporting cyber

  operations and maintaining operational security platforms across on-premises,

  hybrid, and cloud infrastructures.

Key

Responsibilities

Architect, deploy, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise security

operations tools and technologies in production environments.

Manage and optimize Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms

including log ingestion, correlation rules, alert tuning, dashboard

development, use-case creation, and operational monitoring.

Deploy, administer, and maintain Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

solutions to support endpoint visibility, threat detection, containment, and

remediation activities.

Configure and manage Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS),

network security monitoring tools, and threat detection technologies to

identify and respond to malicious activity.

Administer vulnerability management platforms, conduct authenticated and

unauthenticated vulnerability scans, validate remediation activities, and

support enterprise vulnerability reduction initiatives.

Manage enterprise log management and security monitoring platforms, ensuring

collection, normalization, retention, and analysis of security-relevant

telemetry across servers, endpoints, applications, cloud platforms, and network

devices.

Implement and support cloud security technologies across AWS, Azure, and/or

Google Cloud environments, including cloud-native monitoring, workload

protection, identity security, and compliance monitoring capabilities.

Perform hands-on system integration, tool deployment, platform upgrades,

patching, troubleshooting, and operational maintenance activities for security

technologies.

Develop detection engineering content including SIEM correlation rules, EDR

detections, IOC-based alerts, behavioral analytics, and automated response

workflows.

Support cyber operations activities including continuous monitoring, threat

hunting, incident detection, containment, eradication, and recovery efforts.

Collaborate with infrastructure, network, cloud, and application teams to

integrate security controls and improve enterprise security posture.

Create technical documentation, standard operating procedures, architecture

diagrams, implementation guides, and operational runbooks.

Required

Technical Experience

Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing and operating enterprise

cybersecurity tools in production environments.

Strong operational experience with technologies such as:

• SIEM

  platforms (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, ArcSight)

• EDR

  platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint,

  SentinelOne)

• IDS/IPS

  technologies (e.g., Snort, Suricata, Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower)

• Vulnerability

  management tools (e.g., Tenable Nessus, Qualys, Rapid7)

• Log

  management and monitoring solutions

• SOAR

  and security automation platforms

• Cloud

  security platforms and native cloud security tooling

About Us:

Since 2000, Tri-Force Consulting Services (https://triforce-inc.com) has been an MBE/SDB certified IT Consulting firm in the Philadelphia region. Tri-Force specializes in IT staffing, software development (web and mobile apps), systems integration, data analytics, system automation, cybersecurity, and cloud technology solutions for government and commercial clients. Tri-Force works with clients to overcome obstacles such as increasing productivity, increasing efficiencies through automation, and lowering costs. Our clients benefit from our three distinguishing core values: integrity, diligence, and technological excellence. Tri-Force is a six-time winner among the fastest-growing companies in Philadelphia and a four-time winner on the Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest-growing companies.