Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

At Agile Defense, we are seeking a FO Security Engineer to join our team. This role requires providing network maintenance and special projects engineering support, maintaining, configuring, and installing all supported hardware and software within the Enterprise Analysis System (EAS) and supporting all Focused Operations (FO) engineering special projects.

🏢 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 Security Engineering Team (SET) is required to provide network maintenance and special projects engineering support. The SET maintains, configures, and installs all supported hardware and software residing within Enterprise Analysis System (EAS) and provides support for all Focused Operations (FO) engineering special projects. This team performs engineering and system administration services on all FO systems located in on premises, in the cloud and in wireless environments.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Implement automation and orchestration capabilities within the FO environment.
• Design and develop documentation for on-premises and cloud-based solutions provided.
• Provide support for TSA PKI functions, including system administrative support for creating and setting up certificates on systems.
• Perform health and wellness monitoring of the FO FISMA Systems.
• Perform administration, maintenance, and updates of forensic applications to ensure they remain functional.
• Ensure that updates to applications and systems shall be carefully planned and scheduled so as to not affect any on-going or active investigations.
• Review the health and well-being of all security technologies including firewall, router, VPN, IDS sensors, proxies, wireless, PKI, and switch changes within FO FISMA Systems.
• Travel to locations where EAS devices are located for system administration and/or repair if needed.
• Ensure that all changes required follow the proper Request for Change (RFC) process, have been approved through the appropriate Change Control Board (CCB) and are properly tested before deployment to the production FO FISMA Systems.
• Recommend and implement technologies/changes that will enhance the operations and/or security of the FO FISMA Systems.
• Document all recommendations and changes and provide it to the FO Branch Manager, or his designee.
• Ensure that all TSA change control processes are followed, and all changes are approved prior to implementation.
• Coordinate with other TSA offices to have FO technologies implemented within the TSA Systems.
• Create and deliver Security and Vulnerability Status reports by all systems managed on a monthly basis.
• Administer, review and provide recommendations for the following devices, both hardware and software (Windows, Macintosh and UNIX/Linux based), including laptops, desktops, PDAs, printers, mobile computing devices, mobile electronic media, Active Directory Servers, member servers, other workgroup servers outside of the main Active Directory realm, other technology devices such as forensic write blocking, and imaging for the FO FISMA Systems.
• Assist in the management of all Operating Systems, tools and applications utilized by IAD Security Engineers, as needed.
• Develop integrated system test requirement, strategies, devices and systems.
• Conduct overall system level testing and security testing.
• Design and integrate information security suites, tools, capabilities into delivered solutions to ensure federal and commercial security best practices.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Clearance: Secret

🎁 Benefits

Salary: $120,000 - $140,000 a year

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Clearance: Secret