Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (Data Protection)

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Hiring Remotely in US
Remote
Senior level
Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer focuses on data protection, manages security incidents, oversees DLP, and improves security measures across the organization.
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Amentum seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (Data Protection).

Amentum is a global leader in advanced engineering and innovative technology solutions, trusted by the United States and its allies to address their most significant and complex challenges in science, security and sustainability. Headquartered in Virginia, we have more than 53,000 employees in approximately 80 countries across all 7 continents.

Amentum is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with focus on Data Protection. This is a fully remote and hands-on role, responsible for ensuring Amentum assets are protected from cyber threats. This role provides technical expertise in multiple areas of cybersecurity to include Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Messaging, Cloud Security, Endpoint Security and Incident Response. US Citizenship is required to apply. This is a remote-telework role.

Responsibilities:

  • Cover all aspects of Data Protection, especially Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
  • Manage email protection.
  • Maintain and improve Endpoint Protection.
  • Participate in 2nd-level Security Operations Center (SOC) activities, e.g. respond to critical security incidents escalated by a MSSP.
  • Design and improve security controls protecting our users, information systems, enterprise applications and data.
  • Analyze, troubleshoot and investigate security-related IT system anomalies based on platform reporting, network traffic, log files and automated security alerts.
  • Optimize processes/tooling and automate recurring tasks.
  • Provide security oversight and coordination for changes to the IT landscape.
  • Provide off-hours support on an infrequent, but as needed basis.
  • Maintain and update relevant system and process documentation.
  • Cover other assignments as needed.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Effective time management and communication skills.
  • Self-starter with desire for professional excellence, able to work with minimal supervision.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to prioritize and adapt to dynamic changes in the environment.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field plus 8 years of relevant experience; 5 years with a Master’s.
  • Solid experience in Data Loss Prevention (DLP), including messaging (email).
  • Experience with data anonymization and encryption.
  • Experience with access controls (e.g. RBAC, ABAC).
  • Experience with data protection of Cloud environments or SaaS applications.
  • Good understanding of Endpoint Protection and Remediation (EDR) tools.
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen to apply.
  • Current CISSP or similar industry certification.
  • Solid Microsoft Azure experience, including M365.
  • Solid understanding of system and network security technologies and related concepts, e.g. boundary protection, network segmentation, firewalls, endpoint security, threat hunting, data protection.
  • Ability to travel up to 10%.

Additional desired qualifications and experience:

  • Experience with Varonis preferred.
  • Experience with Microsoft Purview or Microsoft Sentinel preferred.
  • Experience with Proofpoint preferred.
  • Experience with a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) setup preferred.
  • Good compliance background, e.g. GDPR, CMMC, ISO 27001 is preferred.
  • Azure GCC-H exposure is preferred.

       

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language at EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans and Labor Laws Posters.

Top Skills

Abac
Cloud Security
Data Loss Prevention
Edr
Endpoint Security
M365
Azure
Rbac
Threat Hunting
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The Company
HQ: Germantown, MD
18,261 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Amentum is a premier global technical and engineering services partner supporting critical programs of national significance across defense, security, intelligence, energy, and environment. We draw from a century-old heritage of operational excellence, mission focus, and successful execution underpinned by a strong culture of safety and ethics. Headquartered in Germantown, Md., we employ more than 20,000 people in 48 states and 28 foreign countries and territories. Visit us at amentum.com to explore how we deliver excellence for our customers’ most vital missions.

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