Government Information Security Engineer

Job Description: Government Information Security Engineer

Our Government Information Technology and Security (GITS) Team at Intel Corporation is seeking a talented and motivated individual with strong technical skills and the ability to rapidly learn new technologies. We are actively expanding our Hybrid Cloud solution suite to meet stringent US Government requirements for data safeguarding.

As a Government Information Security Engineer within GITS, you will be actively involved in the following key responsibilities:

• Identifies, develops, plans, implements, and supports enterprise security systems using Agile methodologies and DevOps principles to improve and grow our secure solutions, enhancing Intel Federal's capabilities with a constant focus on security.
• Creates solutions in partnership with enterprise architecture to design security measures (from infrastructure to software) that safeguard sensitive data, protect confidentiality and availability, and enable compliance with security policies and regulatory requirements for the enterprise and USG regulations and standards.
• Partners with system engineers, network engineers, database administrators, and information security personnel in support, integration, development, and lifecycle management.
• Develops and validates functional requirements and identifies gaps or risks to meet business and security outcomes.
• Reviews health measures for various functional performance components of platform, applications, controls, and appliances and supports key security systems, responds to security events, and troubleshoots and proactively discovers security issues across the enterprise.
• Validates security controls are working as designed (validation and/or efficacy) to ensure effective security measures.
• Develops new and/or updates existing controls that limit the risk exposure for the company and optimizes security system performance.
• Researching new security and information technology trends in enterprise applications, networks, and systems to understand and drive strategic plans, forward engineering, upgrades, and changes while influencing vendors to drive bug resolution, product feature enhancement, and key security improvements.
• Works to identify, design, test, document, and implement internal process improvements such as automating manual processes, optimization of data delivery, elimination of technical debt, and support/administration of key security control systems.
• Supports lifecycle management of systems, software, and infrastructure.

Behavioral Traits

We are looking for candidates who demonstrate a passion for Information Security, coupled with strong customer service and stakeholder management skills. The ability to set and manage user and stakeholder expectations is crucial as we partner closely with Intel Federal business teams. This role requires strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, negotiating, influencing, facilitation, organizational, prioritization, decision-making, and conflict resolution skills. You should be a strong team player who can work both independently and collaboratively with peers and teams.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications are required for initial consideration, while preferred qualifications are a plus. Requirements can be met through industry experience, internships, coursework, or research.

Minimum Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related Information Technology field with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Information Security.
• 1+ year of experience working in an environment that supports Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) or International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) data.
• 3+ years of experience with script writing for automation and integration (e.g., PowerShell, .Net, Python, etc.).
• 1+ year of Identity Access Management experience (e.g., Entra ID or other IAM tools).
• 1+ year Azure or AWS Hosted Cloud environment experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record of excellent customer Service and Support skills, including independent troubleshooting for successful problem resolution.
• MS Azure Government Cloud and Amazon Web Services GovCloud solutions deployment experience desired.
• 1+ year of experience working with NIST Special Publication 800-171 and/or 800-53 compliance standards.
• 1+ year of experience working with NIST 800-171A readiness assessment procedures.
• Willingness to quickly ramp up on online data solutions and apply trusted technologies across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience using Privilege Access Management (PAM) or similar tools.
• Windows and Linux OS and application operations support, administration, security configuration, and monitoring.
• Security certifications are an advantage (CISSP, CISM, CEH, CCNA, etc.).
• Experience working with applications such as SCOM, BigFix, Azure Security Center, and Antivirus configuration.
• Experience with Datacenter management operations such as servers/hardware handling, installation, configuration, decom, and general support.
• Experience with Agile Scrum and/or Kanban project management methodologies.
• Scaled Scrum, SAFe, or other scaled Agile framework approaches to manage operations, engineering, and development workloads.

Key Skills/Competency

• Information Security
• Hybrid Cloud Security
• US Government Compliance (CUI/ITAR, NIST)
• Scripting and Automation (PowerShell, Python)
• Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Azure/AWS Cloud Security
• Security Architecture Design
• DevOps Principles
• Vulnerability Management
• Stakeholder Management