Security Engineer – Endpoint Security Tool Monitoring

The Security Engineer role supports the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) CyberPRIMES program by validating, troubleshooting, and improving enterprise endpoint-security monitoring. The position focuses on confirming endpoint tool deployment, configuration, reporting quality, and the correct rollup of data into enterprise monitoring and compliance systems.

Location and Employment Details

• Location: Alexandria, VA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 87,100 - 157,450 per year
• Experience: 4+ years

Summary

Within the DHRA enterprise, this role provides cybersecurity monitoring oversight for endpoint-security capabilities. Responsibilities include validating endpoint-security tool performance, ensuring required telemetry is reported, verifying upstream data rollup into enterprise monitoring and compliance systems, and performing compliance cross-references against applicable Department of Defense, DHRA, and DMDC cybersecurity requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Support comprehensive cybersecurity monitoring and oversight of endpoint-security capabilities across the DHRA enterprise.
• Validate that endpoint-security tools are properly deployed, configured, operational, and reporting the required data.
• Verify upstream rollup of endpoint-security data into applicable enterprise cybersecurity monitoring and reporting systems.
• Validate endpoint-security reporting through the Defense Information Systems Agency Continuous Monitoring and Risk Scoring (DISA CMRS) capability, as applicable.
• Maintain weekly records of endpoint-security data-rollup validation, coverage, configuration status, and identified deficiencies.
• Identify and document systems or environments that are incorrectly configured, not reporting, or providing incomplete endpoint-security data.
• Escalate endpoint-security configuration, connectivity, coverage, and reporting issues for corrective action.
• Develop recommendations to optimize endpoint-security configurations to improve data collection, alert generation, visibility, and threat response.
• Provide technically supported configuration recommendations to Government tool administrators for implementation.
• Support network and server security scanning and validation activities related to endpoint-security monitoring.
• Perform compliance checks and cross-reference endpoint-security results against applicable Department of Defense, DHRA, and DMDC cybersecurity requirements.
• Troubleshoot endpoint-security tool configuration, connectivity, deployment, data-rollup, and reporting issues.
• Support Tier 2 troubleshooting and coordinate resolution with Government tool administrators, system owners, network and infrastructure teams, and cybersecurity personnel.
• Evaluate recurring endpoint-monitoring results to identify coverage gaps, configuration trends, or systemic issues that may affect enterprise cybersecurity posture.
• Document monitoring results, technical findings, corrective actions, and configuration recommendations.
• Support improvements to endpoint-monitoring procedures, technical baselines, and cybersecurity monitoring practices.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (note: degree details provided with incomplete phrasing)
• Experience: 4+ years of relevant professional experience (additional experience may be required in lieu of degree).
• Experience supporting endpoint-security technologies, cybersecurity monitoring, security engineering, or enterprise cybersecurity operations.
• Experience validating deployment, configuration, connectivity, or reporting of endpoint-security tools.
• Experience troubleshooting endpoint-security, server, workstation, or enterprise security-tool issues.
• Experience with cybersecurity scanning, mitigation, compliance checking, or security configuration assessment.
• Understanding of endpoint-security telemetry, security-event generation, centralized monitoring, and enterprise data-rollup concepts.
• Experience documenting technical findings, configuration issues, corrective actions, and remediation recommendations.
• Ability to work effectively with Government customers, cybersecurity personnel, system administrators, engineers, and Information Technology operations teams.
• Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required.
• Clearance: Active Secret security clearance required.

Technologies

• Defense Information Systems Agency Continuous Monitoring and Risk Scoring (DISA CMRS)
• Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS)
• Risk Management Framework (RMF)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Department of Defense endpoint-security or enterprise cybersecurity environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise endpoint detection, endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning, configuration monitoring, or comparable cybersecurity technologies.
• Experience with DISA CMRS or comparable continuous-monitoring and compliance-reporting capabilities.
• Experience validating cybersecurity-tool coverage against enterprise asset inventories.
• Experience supporting Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) cybersecurity tools in large enterprise environments.
• Experience performing Tier 2 cybersecurity troubleshooting and coordinating technical issues through resolution.
• Familiarity with Department of Defense continuous-monitoring, Risk Management Framework, and cybersecurity compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with DHRA, DMDC, or comparable Department of Defense enterprise environments.