The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Applications Support Engineer in Vienna, VA.

Role Description

To research, evaluate, design, implement, and maintain system and product solutions, applying knowledge of engineering principles. To provide technical direction and engineering support for projects and infrastructure. Develop and maintain expert functional knowledge of evolving IT engineering industry technologies/competition, concepts and trends.

• Responsible for Full life-cycle project management of server based applications used by our business units in Security.
• Provide on-call support in the instances of outages as well as be available for change and deployment scheduled work.
• Work with and be part of project teams. This role will collaborate with various teams such as engineering, networking, database administration, enterprise data management, enterprise architecture, data center operations, application owners, project management, compliance and information/physical security to develop and maintain security applications.
• Apply engineering principles into the design and enhancement of new and existing systems
• Ensure the security and integrity of system and product solutions including compliance with Navy Federal, industry engineering and Information Security principles and practices
• Perform engineering technology research, procurement, deployment, and configuration for new and modified systems
• Present clear, organized and concise information to all audiences through a variety of media to enable effective business decisions
• Lead complex or high severity troubleshooting and incident problem resolutions with multiple other teams
• Perform other duties and or special projects as assigned.

Skills & Requirements

• 2 years of information security experience focusing on operational experience implementing and supporting encryption and key management solutions.
• Minimum 1 year of experience implementing, configuring and supporting third party encryption & key management solutions
• Minimum 2 years of experience in database, networking, storage and system administration is required.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of Linux system Administration and shell programming
• Experience with Kafka, storm administration, Elasticsearch administration, SQL, Toad, Splunk, nginx or apache http server administration, Prometheus, Zookeper administration, and Alert/Event monitoring
• Prod Support primary skills and Windows server platforms. CCDAK and MCSA certifications are a plus.
• Any experience working with Featurespace vendor products a plus.
• Broad knowledge of encryption methods for data at rest and in transit.
• Working knowledge of hardware security modules, key management and open source encryption technologies such as KMIP, JCA/JCE, Microsoft CNG, PKCS#11
• Good understanding of various cryptographic methods and their usage.
• General knowledge of application access to data including client and server based key and certificate methods to encrypt transmissions and IP connections.
• Ability to create requirements, functional specifications and design documents for encryption and key management.
• Ability to create use cases and test cases for selection of encryption and key management technologies.
• Experience with server based applications support and maintenance needs, (Both Physical and Virtual server environments) such as vulnerability patching, access control, major/minor version upgrades and controlled change window cycles.
Full systems engineering lifecycle experience (Requirements, Analysis, System design, Build, Monitoring, Support procedures).
Should be able to work as team member as well as independently, Be a mentor/trainer to Junior level co-worker.

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays’ guiding principles is ‘do the right thing’.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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