- Company Name
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Job Title
- Cyber Security Engineer 1
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Cyber Security Engineer 1
**Role Summary:**
Conduct research and develop innovative cyber‑security solutions within a national‑security research environment. Design, deploy, and maintain virtualized and containerized testbeds, infrastructure-as-code pipelines, and monitoring systems to support cyber‑defense research, testing, and training.
**Expectations:**
- Deliver high‑quality, repeatable infrastructures that enable research, testing, and training.
- Apply continuous learning to adopt new tools, platforms, and security practices.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams in an agile development setting.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Design, deploy, and operate virtualized and containerized environments for cyber research.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools such as Packer, Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi.
- Integrate hardware, hypervisors (e.g., Proxmox, VMware ESXi, Hyper‑V), orchestration (Docker, Docker Compose), and monitoring/logging platforms to build end‑to‑end cyber ranges.
- Perform system/network hardening, patching, and baseline enforcement.
- Conduct performance, scalability, and reliability testing of virtualized infrastructure; analyze results and report findings.
- Implement monitoring and logging solutions for health, availability, and security visibility.
- Support cyber operations: set up, configure, troubleshoot virtual networks, services, and applications.
- Develop automation scripts/tools (Python, Ansible, Docker Compose) for deployment and testing workflows.
- Participate in sprint‑based development, document work, report progress, and collaborate with teams.
- Contribute to architectural design of new cyber‑defense methods, test‑range realism, and system resiliency.
- Assist with security assessment and penetration‑style testing in controlled lab environments.
- Produce technical documentation, test reports, and presentations for stakeholders.
**Required Skills:**
- Proficiency in IaC (Packer, Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi).
- Experience with virtualization and hypervisors (Proxmox, VMware ESXi/vSphere, Hyper‑V).
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Docker Compose).
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.
- Strong grasp of core cybersecurity practices (hardening, vulnerability scanning, secure configuration).
- Ability to develop/supported cyber ranges, testbeds, or lab environments.
- Programming/scripting skills (Python) for automation.
- Analytical, problem‑solving, and technical writing capabilities.
- Understanding of threat landscapes in cloud, virtualized, OT, or emerging tech (AI/ML).
- Rapid learning of new tools, platforms, and security concepts.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) or higher in Cybersecurity or a related field.
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