Information Security Systems Engineer - Melbourne, FL - Public Trust Needed

Information Security Systems Enginee r needed for a 1 year Contract to Hire opportunity with SOC’s client to work onsite in Melbourne, FL.

Candidates must have the ability to obtain a Public Trust to be considered for this role.

Our Client is searching for a talented & experienced Information Security Systems Engineering professional to join the client Security Engineering Team comprised of Information Security Systems Engineers (ISSEs) supporting managed network infrastructures for federal government customers.

Essential Functions :

• Act as primary engineering support to network security operations for the testing and evaluation of new Security products and services.
• Supervise the technical work of junior security engineers to perform systems engineering design, testing and implementation of network security infrastructure and services.
• Perform lifecycle testing and operational support on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based security architectures to maintain compliance with customer-tailored National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) security controls.
• Perform enterprise security gateway access control, baseline configuration management and system performance testing to ensure requirements compliance.
• Manage and maintain enterprise configuration and provide internal and external (customer) tier 2 / 3 technical support for the following major systems : Develop, maintain and publish network security technical documentation in accordance with client Systems Engineering processes.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Global and Local Load Balancer Next generation firewall API Gateway

This position requires weekend, after hours support, and on-call rotations to meet program requirements.

Required Qualifications :

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, IT Security or related field, and minimum 2 years related experience;

or a Masters’ degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, IT Security or related field.

• 0 to 2 years of experience in the network security engineering field performing the specification, selection, evaluation, testing, deployment and operation of security devices including but not limited to Firewalls, Routers, Switches, IDS, WAF, VPN technologies, etc.
• Lifecycle testing and operational support on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based security architectures.
• Experience with security gateway access control, baseline configuration management and system performance testing.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills :

• Experience in application and compliance of customer tailored NIST and FISMA controls and policies.
• Experience collecting system logs and event data and performing engineering analysis to determine system security function, performance and compliance.
• Experience developing, configuring and maintaining Linux and Windows Operating Systems (OS).
• Prior federal telecommunications and network security experience is a plus.
• CompTIA Security+ certification.
• CCNA or CISSP certification.

Employment Pre-requisites

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position : successful completion of a background investigation and drug urinalysis.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer,