Network Security Engineer job in Reston, VA

Location: Reston
Posted on: April 28, 2025

Job Description:

Security Engineer job in Reston, VA. You will be responsible for identify security requirements, make recommendations, and design security solutions, and ensure secure transition of internal and external hosted applications to production.
 
 
Responsibilities Include:
• Understand and advocate IT Security standards and reference architectures.
• Perform the technology planning, design, implementation and change support of IT Security infrastructure solutions.
• Support the security risk assessment of applications and infrastructure; including remediation of incident response, vulnerability analysis and threat intelligence.
• Coordination with Operations team for the design, build and production readiness of Security infrastructure solutions supporting mission critical production environments and applications.
• Coordination with Information Security team to ensure solution assurance and compliance to security policy, procedures, standards and baseline security configurations.
• Ensure decisions around IT Security solutions are made and deviations from standards are properly identified, addressed and communicated.
• Stay current with developing technologies, emerging threat landscape and predict impact of changing technologies.
• Ensure consistent delivery of superior technical solutions.
• Communicate effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative technical solutions and strategies.
• Continually define ways to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
 
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, engineering, computer science, related field or equivalent experience.
• At least 10 years of experience in Information Security.
• 5+ years in a senior level security engineering role with at least four (4) of the following areas: network-security, host/endpoint protection, access control management, federated identity and single sign-on, certificate and key management, directory services, database security and web services security.
• Experience with automated security monitoring, network/host intrusion detection, security incident event management.
• Demonstrated experience with network protocol and operating systems.
• Knowledge of security issues, techniques and implications across computing platforms.
• Knowledge of information security standards (e.g., ISO, NIST) with an emphasis on NIST 800-53.
 
Please apply today! We are interviewing this week.

 

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