# Vectra Detection Engineer

**Company**: GuidePoint Security
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GuidePoint Security is seeking a skilled VectraAI Integration Engineer to deploy, tune, and sustain VectraAI Detect sensors and Recall pipelines in physical data centers, airgapped networks, and enterprise on-premise environments.

The role focuses on network metadata, packet-level telemetry, routing, sensor placement, and integration with on-premise SOC tooling.

Responsibilities:

- Deploy and sustain VectraAI sensors, collectors, and metadata pipelines in on-premise networks.

- Integrate VectraAI with on-premise SIEM/SOAR/EDR, packet brokers, and analysis tools.

- Engineer physical and virtual sensor placement including SPANs, taps, packet brokers, and east-west segmentation visibility.

- Manage routing, VLANs, packet capture, and metadata transformation.

- Support STIG aligned configurations and secure baselines consistent with on-prem operating guidance.

- Build monitoring dashboards, sensor health checks, and performance tuning workflows.

- Coordinate with operations teams to ensure reliable on-prem telemetry ingestion and threat detection fidelity.

Requirements:

- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.

- 5+ years of hands-on experience with on-premise network engineering or cybersecurity platforms.

- Experience deploying NDR platforms (VectraAI preferred) in physical/virtual data center environments.

- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, NetFlow/IPFIX, packet capture, and metadata pipelines.

- Experience with Zeek, Suricata, Arkime, Endace, or similar packet analytics tools.

- Experience with hardened OS builds, secure enclaves, access controls, and network segmentation.

- Proficiency with Linux engineering and system operations.

Preferred Experience and Education:

- Experience integrating NDR telemetry into SOC pipelines in secure on-prem environments.

- Experience in environments with strict access controls or Zero Trust requirements.

- Familiarity with virtualization platforms, physical rack deployments, and packet brokers.

- Experience with incident response and threat hunting based on raw network metadata.

- Security certifications (GCIA, GNFA, CISSP, etc.).

Benefits:

- Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions).

- Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA.

- Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans.

- 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program.

- Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance.

- Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment.

- Pet Benefit Option.

## Skills

### Required
- VectraAI
- Network engineering
- Cybersecurity
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- TLS
- HTTP/S
- NetFlow/IPFIX
- packet capture
- metadata pipelines
- Zeek
- Suricata
- Arkime
- Endace
- Linux engineering
- System operations

### Nice to have
- NDR telemetry
- SOC pipelines
- Zero Trust
- Virtualization platforms
- Physical rack deployments
- Packet brokers
- Incident response
- Threat hunting

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