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Lead Cybersecurity Engineer (8305)

Richmond, VA 23219

Posted: 03/04/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Security, Software Development/Engineering Job Number: 8305

Job Description

Position Title: Lead Cybersecurity Engineer     
Position Status: 12-month contract with extensions 
Schedule: HYBRID
Overview: Our client is looking for a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer for a HYBRID position based out of Richmond, VA.                                         
 
Responsibilities:
  • 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. 

Requirements:
  • Current exp as a Cyber Security Lead or Manager of projects.
  • Analyzing data across an organization to be able to recreate incident or other events.
  • Experience overseeing the daily workflow, schedules and assignments of security staff.
  • Leadership: Uphold integrity, leadership and performance standards as a lead, supervisor or director.
  • Experience overseeing security SIEM operations, including creating baselines.
  • Experience correlating data to triggers to respond/investigate.
  • Performs routine analysis of traffic, events and log review to ensure baseline is accurate as well identifying any anomalies.
  • Experience with using a SIEM (like Splunk or Trellix).
About Our Client: Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains a drug-free workplace by both policy and practice. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, or the presence of a non-job-related medical condition. Employment and personnel practices conform to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding non-discrimination. While the Company is committed to following this principle in every facet of employment, all employees share in the responsibility to promote and foster a favorable work environment.
 

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