# Cyber Security Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $111,155 - $150,385
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cybersecurity Engineer at GDIT. You will serve as a key technical authority supporting Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) and Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO), ensuring cyber resiliency across mission systems.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide technical leadership and oversight across cybersecurity functions, including incident response, cyber defense, threat hunt, forensics, vulnerability management, and threat emulation.

- Oversee 24/7 cyber defense monitoring, detection, and incident classification activities.

- Lead teams performing vulnerability analysis, ACAS posture rollups, IAVM trending, PPSM compliance assessments, and endpoint security rollups.

- Guide intelligence-driven threat hunt missions and develop analytics, rulesets, and countermeasures for CSSP toolsets.

- Oversee technical documentation, quality, and compliance, including SOPs, TTPs, CTOs, COAs, forensic reports, and training materials.

- Lead development and refinement of Elastic dashboards, data enrichment pipelines, anomaly detection models, and threat analytics.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

- 7+ years of cybersecurity engineering or cyber operations experience in DoD or federal environments.

- 3+ years in a technical leadership role.

- CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional required.

- Extensive experience with SIEM/EDR platforms, Elastic Stack, ACAS, and cyber defense analytics.

- Strong knowledge of RMF and deep understanding of cyber incident response processes and detection engineering.

**Benefits:**

- Medical plan options with Health Savings Accounts.

- Dental and vision plans.

- 401(k) plan with company match.

- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, and parental leave.

- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.

## Skills

### Required
- Cyber Defense
- Cyber Operations
- Forensic Sciences
- Information Assurance
- Information System Security
- SIEM/EDR platforms
- Elastic Stack
- ACAS
- RMF

### Nice to have
- GIAC Certifications
- Elastic
- DoD 8140/8570 certifications
- CTE environments
- advanced adversary simulation

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