Hybrid SecOps Engineer – Secret Clearance, Travel Role

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About the role

  • Security Operations Engineer supporting federal cybersecurity initiatives across enterprise and cloud environments. Hands-on security engineering, operational monitoring, and compliance support.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts and incidents using **Elastic Security (SIEM/XDR)**
  • Design, deploy, and maintain the **Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana)**
  • Develop and tune detection rules, dashboards, and alerting workflows
  • Conduct threat hunting and advanced log analysis
  • Perform vulnerability scanning and analysis using tools such as **ACAS / Tenable**
  • Track and remediate vulnerabilities in accordance with federal timelines
  • Coordinate patching and mitigation efforts with infrastructure and application teams
  • Implement and maintain controls aligned with **NIST 800-53, FISMA, and FedRAMP**
  • Support **ATO (Authority to Operate)** activities including documentation and evidence collection
  • Produce compliance and CDM reporting using Elastic dashboards and data feeds
  • Integrate security monitoring and logging into **CI/CD pipelines** and Infrastructure-as-Code
  • Automate ingestion, enrichment, and response workflows using **Python, Bash, or PowerShell**
  • Enforce secure configuration baselines (STIGs, CIS benchmarks)
  • Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to embed security observability into system design
  • Advise stakeholders on risk posture, detections, and mitigation strategies
  • Communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Requirements

  • Hands-on production experience with the **Elastic Stack (ELK)**
  • Direct experience using **Elastic Security** as a SIEM/XDR platform
  • Log pipeline design, parsing, enrichment, and lifecycle management
  • Security event monitoring, alert triage, and incident response
  • Linux and Windows security administration
  • Scripting or automation experience (**Python, Bash, or PowerShell**)
  • Experience in **cloud or hybrid environments** (AWS, Azure, GCP, or GovCloud)
  • Strong familiarity with NIST 800-53, 800-61, 800-137
  • FISMA federal cybersecurity requirements
  • FedRAMP control implementation and monitoring
  • Experience supporting audits, assessments, or **ATO packages**
  • **Active Secret Clearance**

Benefits

  • comprehensive PPO medical coverage with access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) option
  • vision plan
  • dental insurance with the base dental plan option paid for by PGTEK
  • Life Insurance
  • Short and Long-Term disability
  • Critical Illness insurance have premiums covered
  • matching 401(k) plan
  • discount on pet insurance through ASPCA Pet Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program available at no cost to all employees
  • generous amount of PTO and Holidays
  • Education Assistance Program available after 12 months of employment

Job title

SecOps Engineer – Secret Clearance, Travel Role

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$110,000 - $145,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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