Defense Cyber Operations Engineer

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Work You'll Do

As a Defense Cyber Operations Engineer SME on our Enterprise Security team, you will be responsible for...

• Leading engineers across complex Defensive Cyber Operations assignments and aligning team members toward mission objectives and deliverables
• Developing and refining Defensive Cyber Operations methodologies and presenting solutions to cyber defense and technical implementation challenges
• Assessing cyber key terrain to understand mission requirements, system architecture, and associated threats, and advising on defensive architecture and technologies
• Designing, implementing, configuring, tuning, and adapting cyber defensive capabilities to protect, detect, and respond to cyber threats and attacks
• Authoring and maintaining documentation such as standard operating procedures, checklists, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, and crew binders to support Defensive Cyber Operations

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Enterprise Security offering embeds security in all aspects of digital transformation by securing a client's technical backbone while enabling secure digital transformation. Includes security architecture, secure development and deployment, end-to-end cyber cloud capabilities, application security, and security for emerging technologies and connected products.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required :

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance required.
• 3+ years of professional technical experience in cyber defense, cybersecurity, engineering, networking, systems integration, or technology solutions
• Experience in at least 2 of the following areas: containers or virtual environments such as Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, or Amazon Web Services; network traffic collection and aggregation platforms such as Gigamon; data storage solutions such as Network File System, Ceph, or distributed storage; data analysis platforms such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, or Splunk; Agile software development frameworks; Linux operating systems such as Red Hat or Kali; Windows operating systems; network infrastructure; or security applications such as Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response, Security Information and Event Management, or Intrusion Detection Systems
• Experience supporting cyber defense architecture, threat detection, incident response, or security operations
• Experience authoring technical documentation such as standard operating procedures, implementation guides, or architecture diagrams
• Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting Department of Defense or Federal environments
• Experience assessing mission systems, architecture, and cyber threat activity
• Experience advising on the technical design and implementation of cyber defensive capabilities
• Experience with security engineering across enterprise or mission-focused environments
• Experience leading technical workstreams or teams on cyber defense efforts
• Prior experience working on a Cyber Protection Team.
• Systems administration experience.