Lead Cybersecurity Engineer

Immediate Opening
Title: Lead / Manager Cybersecurity Engineer
Location: Richmond, VA, United States (Onsite 2 days: Tuesday and Wednesday REQUIRED each week)
Interview Process: Both Web Cam and In Person Interview
Job Type: Contract
Job Duration: Approx. 12+ months (High Possibility of longer extensions)
Client: Public Sector Direct Client
Tax Term: W2 or Corp to Corp

Job Description:
About the role:

• Lead cybersecurity engineer to help the CIO plan and implement key initiatives as well as manage vulnerabilities and security operations and incidents across the IT team, including responding to threats, ensuring compliance, and managing threats with ITD and IS professionals.
• Overseeing the day-to-day management of security activities in partnership with IS and IT, including regular reporting to the CIO. This including daily monitoring of events, logs, and/or anomalies with IS and IT staff. Help in managing future architecture designs of networks, applications, and environments to ensure data captured in sufficient to help monitor security.
• Security Operations Center (SOC) - Security monitoring tool and staff to manage it.
• CISSP or CISM would be nice but not mandatory.

Skill Matrix: Skill Required Amount of Experience Experience Current exp as a Cyber Security Lead or Manager of projects Required 3 Years Analyzing data across an organization to be able to recreate incident or other events Required 7 Years Experience overseeing the daily workflow, schedules, and assignments of security staff Required 5 Years Leadership: Uphold integrity, leadership and performance standards as a lead, supervisor, or director Required 5 Years Experience overseeing security Siem operations, including creating baselines Required 5 Years Experience correlating data to triggers to respond/investigate Required 7 Years Performs routine analysis of traffic, events, and log review to ensure baseline is accurate as well identifying any anomalies. Required 7 Years Experience with using a SIEM (like Splunk or Trellix) Required 5 Years Experience managing an on-premises SOC (Security Operations Center) Desired Experience with network and architecture design Desired CISSP OR CISM preferred Desired Current exp as a Cyber Security Lead or Manager of projects Required 3 Years