Sobre esta vaga de SOC Engineer Tier 2 (Night Shift 12:00am-8:00am) na Applied Information Sciences
Why AIS?
When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.
Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.
What are we looking for?
At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.
Working@AIS
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Security Architect.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Develops enterprise security architectures, frameworks, and standards; utilizes advanced forensics and integrates solutions with IT systems.
Work & Complexity: Designs secure architectures, manages integration projects, leads strategic initiatives, and enforces policies and standards.
Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity and scalability, develops comprehensive strategies, and optimizes solutions for performance and efficiency.
Teamwork & Communication: Leads architectural teams, builds partnerships, manages knowledge, and communicates strategies and executive reports.
Consulting & Engagement: Provides architectural consulting, leads innovation initiatives, evaluates enterprise technologies, and builds strategic partnerships.
Introduction:
As a SOC Engineer Tier 2 you will use cutting-edge cloud technologies to ensure secure operations for our clients. Ensure that large-scale Azure and M365 environments are secure and that security events are quickly identified and resolved. Build comprehensive security alerts and monitoring tools and dashboards to gauge the operational security of system components. Implement innovation to improve efficiency of Azure security related activities. Serve as point of escalation for challenging and complex security issue resolution. Join our team of security operations cloud professionals and accomplish what others only dream of.
This is a night shift position, but you must be willing to fill in for other shifts as needed. (12:00am-8:00am)
$5,000 sign-on bonus
What You'll Be Doing
Review the environment scoping information and inventory to ensure a deep understanding of the organization's business, its applications, and technical solutions.
Be well versed in the areas of focus on the security roadmap and have an understanding of how they will be implemented and impact the work that the Security Operations Center staff will have to take up.
Provide the SOC with an understanding as to the mapping between IT & organization security and how it relates to the responsibilities and tasking that the SOC has.
Ensure that the SOC team is focusing on education based on preventative maintenance and roadmap capabilities.
Participate in audit reviews to ensure that gaps in coverage are being addressed by the SOC team.
Support the creation of reporting templates, explain how they are used and generated and the expectation regarding their cadence. Create a process where the reports are reviewed and feedback loops provide the ability to improve them.
Specialize in SIEM configuration and maintenance.
Responsible for building the security architecture and systems
Work with development operations teams to ensure that systems are up to date.
Document requirements, procedures, and protocols to ensure that other users have the right resources
Work with customers on complex operational issues
Location and Travel Details
Springfield, VA
Security Clearance and Citizenship Requirements
TS/SCI with CI Polygraph is required
Skills required for this opportunity
6 + years of experience in security engineering to operate M365 and Azure platforms
Security + certification
Experience in Azure and M365 environments
Good experience in a variety of SOC engineering/ administration tools
Handles daily alerts, incidents; monitors, tracks, analyzes and records.
Work with other IT professionals to resolve fast moving vulnerabilities such as spam, virus, spyware and malware.
Monitor security vulnerability information from vendors and third parties.
Strong engineering analysis ability
CySA+ is required within 6 months of joining the team
Other applicable skills for this opportunity
Provide technical guidance / recommendations to clients to enhance their overall security posture within the managed products.
Work with vendors, outside consultants, and other third parties to improve information security within the organization.
Advanced Forensics skills to evaluate current malware and phishing threats.
Familiarity with Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender Suite
Experience with SOC capabilities using tools like Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel, Azure Automation, Azure Backup, Azure Security Center, etc.
Apply these capabilities to IaaS and PaaS services such and VMs, Azure Service Environment ASE, Azure Kubernetes Service AKS, Spring Cloud, Azure Virtual Desktop, etc. MSFT: SC-200, SC-900, AZ-900, AZ-500
Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
