Security Tools Engineer

Introduction
Information and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today's businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM's clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client's organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

Your Role and Responsibilities
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

As a Security Tools Engineer, you will be supporting the mission of a progressive Federal agency. You will be helping in implementing and operating agency's security tools. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining, patching, operating, and supporting the current tools, and for architecting, deploying, testing, maintaining, patching, operating, and supporting any new tools. security activities required to support other teams to incorporate security into the development of new solutions and recommend security best practices associated with the development of new enterprise applications in an Agile/DevSecOps environment.

Location: This position can be staffed at the Government's facility within the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area or any locations in the United States with requirement for occasional travel to the government facility in the DC Area.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Must able to obtain a Government Agency clearance
• Linux systems administration experience is a must.
• Sound cyber security knowledge foundation, to include understanding of: network technology and security; Host security
• Experience with Splunk or any SIEM tool is required

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understanding of Security configuration and compliance settings, Active Directory & LDAP authentication configuration and troubleshooting experience
• Working experience or knowledge of networking fundamentals including ACL, VLAN, subnetting.
• Experience with deployment and operations of a large, complex, endpoint security installation at a large enterprise - McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Symantec Protection Suite, Microsoft Defender ATP.