Baseline Security Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote

Salary: USD 135,000–150,000 per year

Company

hirify.global supports national security and critical civilian missions through cybersecurity, advanced technology integration, and mission-focused services.

What you will do

• Implement and maintain cybersecurity controls and security configuration baselines.
• Conduct security, compliance, and risk assessments and help systems meet established security requirements.
• Create, review, and customize baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks, including developing baselines from vendor documentation.
• Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities while collaborating with technical teams on remediation.
• Support audits and security reviews, maintain documentation, and protect client systems from evolving cyber threats.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT operations.
• Experience creating security baselines using CIS and STIG benchmarks and reviewing, developing, or customizing general security configuration baselines.
• Knowledge of the NIST 800 Special Publication series for risk management and security control implementation, including 800-30, 800-37, 800-53, 800-60, 800-63, 800-115, or 800-137.
• Knowledge of the National Vulnerability Database and Common Vulnerability Enumeration.
• Ability to create security baselines from scratch using vendor documentation and modify CIS and STIG benchmarks to meet organizational requirements.
• Ability to translate low-level security baseline requirements into high-level FISMA and NIST requirements and client-specific security requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with networking technologies such as Cisco, Juniper, or Palo Alto; operating systems such as Windows Server, Red Hat, or Linux; cloud services such as AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Okta, O365, or ServiceNow; or mobile technologies such as iOS or Xen Mobile.
• Experience designing, building, and implementing automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform and container platforms such as OpenShift.
• Experience with chaos engineering, blue or green deployments, serverless services, application performance analysis, and monitoring with ELK.
• Experience with JSON or YAML programming.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, CCNA, MSCE, RHCSA, EBSA, or ECSS certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular employment with health, life, disability, retirement, paid time off, holiday pay, and optional benefits, dependent upon position.
• Learning and development opportunities are available.
• Culture emphasizes happiness, support, integrity, humility, eagerness, collaboration, and a strong work ethic.