IA & SS or Security Engineer

Role : IA & SS Master (Security Engineer)

Client : DC Government

Location : Washington, D.C.

Job description :

The Security Engineer role will focus on designing and developing security architecture patterns that meet regulatory obligations and data protection requirements as well as align with the business and corporate security strategy. The Security Engineer will work collaboratively with security engineers to build security controls and solutions compliant with approved architecture frameworks and standards.

Duties and Responsibilities

Strategy and Planning

• Perform security assessments, identify gaps in existing security architecture, and recommend changes or improvements.
• Design security architecture elements to mitigate threats.
• Create solutions that align enterprise security architecture frameworks and standards (e.g. SABSA, NIST 800-53, ISO 27002) with -overall business and security strategy.
• Participate in risk assessments for new technologies and projects.
• Employ secure configuration management processes.
• Assist in developing a disaster recovery and business continuity plan. Identify and prioritize system functions required to promote continuity and availability of critical business processes such that in the circumstance of system failure critical business functions are restored or recovered promptly.

Communication

Education

Qualifications

Experience in identifying gaps in existing architectures.

Experience in designing security architectures to mitigate threats.

Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols (e.g. TCP / IP, DNS) and network security methodologies.

Knowledge of network access, identity, and access management (e.g. public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML).

Knowledge of capabilities and applications of network equipment including routers, switches, servers, transmission media, and related hardware.

Knowledge of remote access technology concepts.

Knowledge of application firewall concepts and functions (e.g. single point of authentication enforcement, data anonymization, DLP scanning, SSL security).

Work experience in cybersecurity designs for systems, networks, and multi-level security requirements or requirements for processing multiple classification levels of data.

Knowledge of risk management processes and experience in conducting risk assessments.

Familiarity with the application of privacy principles to organizational requirements.

Knowledge of identity and access management methods.

Experience with Windows, Unix, and Linux operating systems.

Knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery operation plans.

Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation : $90.00 - $95.00 per hour

About Us

AHU Technologies INC is an IT consulting and permanent staffing firm that meets and exceeds the evolving IT service needs of leading corporations within the United States. We have been providing IT solutions to customers from different industry sectors, helping them control costs and release internal resources to focus on strategic issues.

AHU Technologies INC was co-founded by visionary young techno-commercial entrepreneurs who remain as our principal consultants. Maintaining working relationships with a cadre of other highly skilled independent consultants, we have a growing number of resources available for development projects. We are currently working on Various projects such as media entertainment, ERP Solutions, data warehousing, Web Applications, Telecommunications and medical to our clients all over the world.