Baseline Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About Agile Defense

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next. Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

🎯 The Role

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.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation and maintenance of cybersecurity controls
• Conduct security and compliance assessments
• Identify and mitigate risks
• Ensure systems meet established security requirements
• Collaborate with technical teams to address vulnerabilities
• Support audits and security reviews
• Maintain documentation
• Help protect client systems from evolving cyber threats

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree and 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 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

🎁 Benefits

In addition, Agile Defense invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Agile’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Clearance Level: Public Trust