Vulnerability Management ACAS Engineer

Description

Job Description:

Are you ready to join an impactful company? Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. 

The Leidos Defense Group currently has a career opportunity for an ACAS Engineer to work at Joint Base Andrews (JBA).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as an integral member of a team of Tenable specialists providing engineering support to various organizations across the Air Force District of Washington (AFDW).

• Provide performance tuning to systems and investigate issues with Tenable components which span a large and complex environment.

• Provide solution engineering support to ensure systems and components meet current and future standards.

• Install and configure updates to Tenable software as released and in compliance with STIG requirements.

• Deploy, maintain, and perform tuning of Tenable scanners to meet current and future needs.

• Develop, create, deploy, and manage Tenable scan configurations.

• Ensure that the ACAS scanners and Security Center are operational and reporting properly.

• Assist customers in resolving ACAS issues, make recommendations as needed.

• Perform monthly vulnerability scans and create repositories, queries, and dashboards as necessary to ensure vulnerability report information is available.

• Investigate false positives or potentially confusing scan data results.

• Develop tracking mechanism for false positives and track false positives until the finding is corrected; provide results upon resolution.

• Create/Update all documentation needed to support the ACAS teams requirements, taskings, deliverables, and maintenance of the ACAS solution.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Information Systems, or related discipline and 8+ years of direct experience; or Master’s degree and 6+ years of experience. Additional relevant/specialized training and experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.

• Possess a current DoD 8570 compliant certification for IAT Level II, e.g. Security + w/CE prior to start.

• Must hold active DoD Secret clearance or higher.

• Experience running ACAS on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

• Hands-on experience with general RHEL administration and troubleshooting.

• Demonstrated experience with multiple network security zones, subnetting, VRFs, and VLANs.

• Motivated self-starter with strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to create complex technical reports on analytic finding.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 46,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.  For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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