Senior IT Specialist (Data Loss Prevention Security Engineer) at US Supreme Court of the United States
Washington, DC 20543, USA -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

17 Apr, 25

Salary

185234.0

Posted On

06 Apr, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Vendors, It, Resume, Administrative Skills, Supreme Court, Gcia, Cissp, Engineers, Incentives, Boundaries, Windows, Gcih

Industry

Information Technology/IT

Description

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidate must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

  • At least 2 years of experience of management of enterprise DLP tools.
  • Able to demonstrate the skill level needed to lead and build out a DLP program.
  • Ability to work with stakeholders to determine information types, patterns, and boundaries, then translating those into enforcement and/or actionable alerts for the Incident Response team.
  • Demonstrate the technical skills to deploy and maintain on-prem DLP components, to include server OS administrative skills, agent deployment, or troubleshooting various issues as the result of a DLP deployment.
  • Ability to optimize systems to meet enterprise performance requirements
  • Ability to work with engineers/vendors to improve capabilities, resolve issues, and increase performance of security operation devices and configurations.
  • Knowledge of operating system (Windows, Linux/Unix) command-line tools.
  • Knowledge of endpoint security events and how they relate to possible attacks/intrusions.
  • Ability to balance business needs with security policies.
  • Organizational skills with the ability to multitask, take direction, prioritize, and manage multiple activities/tasks to achieve objectives.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, technically challenging area; ability to anticipate and manage changes or problems; assess impacts and make sound recommendations.
  • Proficiency in tailoring and/or recommending detection rules based on newly discovered IOCs and threats against government networks.
  • CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, CASP, and other security certifications desired, but not required.

EDUCATION

Candidate must have:

  • Two years of demonstrated cyber security related experience and a college degree (computer related).

or

  • Five years of demonstrated cyber security experience.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Working for the Supreme Court of the United States offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes, in part, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, life insurance, health benefits, and participation in the Federal Employees Retirement System. Additional benefits include flexible spending accounts, long-term care insurance, and the SmartBenefits transit subsidy.
The Court provides appropriate in-house and outside third-party technical training. Each staff member is provided with access to high levels of technical support; an in-house library of up-to-date commercially available technical books and software; a technology lab for development and testing of technology products; and a fully equipped computer training room. In addition, the Court provides all employees free access to an in-house exercise facility/weight training room.

Recruitment incentives may be authorized. If authorized, certain incentives will require you to sign a service agreement to remain an employee of the Supreme Court of the United States for a period of up to 2 years. This statement does not guarantee that an incentive will be offered and paid. Incentives may include a recruitment incentive and/or creditable service for annual leave for prior non-federal related work experience or prior uniformed service, if the applicant possesses the skills and experience that are essential to the position, are necessary to achieve an important agency mission or performance goal and were acquired in a position with duties directly related to those of the position in which he or she is seeking appointment.

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Responsibilities

DUTIES

This position is a full-time position in the Office of Information Technology at the Supreme Court of the United States, in Washington, D.C. Under the guidance of the Court Information Security Officer, the incumbent will perform the full range of tasks and activities involved in developing, coordinating, implementing and maintaining standards, procedures and technical solutions to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information systems and data.
The Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Security Engineer will have overall responsibility for the DLP program at the Court. The role requires working with all departments at the Court to identify sensitive data types, implementing technology to restrict access only to the business processes and roles which require them. The DLP Engineer serves a critical role in support of investigations and escalations of DLP alerts/breaches. As a Security Engineer within the Court Information Assurance Group, this role performs additional security engineering duties as assigned.

The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:

  • Manage and evolve the DLP program over time according to business priorities.
  • Evaluate current and emerging DLP technologies and risks.
  • Install, configure, and maintain DLP software.
  • Develop and deliver data profiles for systems across the enterprise.
  • Enhance and tune standards-based rulesets and apply them to DLP Tools.
  • Implement DLP controls according to the Information Security Policy and the needs of Court offices.
  • Create and refine DLP tagging of sensitive information types.
  • Define and update DLP rules associated with tags.
  • Develop Incident Response playbooks for responding to DLP alerts.
  • Support the design and implementation of manual and automated response to DLP incidents.
  • Participate in On-Call rotation (approximately one week every two months)
  • Train cybersecurity personnel in daily DLP program operation.
  • Coordinate and conduct DLP training exercises with relevant stakeholders.
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