Trellix Professional Services Consultant

Posted:
9/5/2024, 1:29:34 AM

Location(s):
Reston, Virginia, United States ⋅ Virginia, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Consulting

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Job Title:

Trellix Professional Services Consultant

About Trellix:

Trellix is the cybersecurity company transforming security operations with artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, and automation to create a resilient digital world. Our market-leading AI-powered XDR Platform learns and adapts to disrupt active threats and empower CISOs with living security. The platform’s open architecture and broadest set of native security controls across endpoint, email, network, cloud, and data security integrates with over 500 third-party tools to create multi-vector, multi-vendor event correlation and context to speed up investigations. The Trellix Advanced Research Center provides an additional layer of protection by continuously informing the platform on the latest threat actor TTPs (techniques, tactics, and procedures) and recommendations from millions of global sensors. Trellix and an extensive partner ecosystem accelerate technology innovation and empower over 40,000 business and government customers to build confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Learn more at Trellix.com.

Role Overview:

The Professional Services – Federal team is seeking an experienced consultant to support key functions and initiatives within the organization. This role will give the consultant an opportunity to work to ensure Trellix solutions are deployed, integrated, assessed, and optimized to meet mission needs. The consultant will provide support to the customer in the planning, engineering, and implementation of specified solutions. The consultant will make recommendations for product optimization and enhancement and be responsible for documenting solutions as they are provided to customers. The consultant will also be responsible for analyzing technical and integration requirements to meet customer needs.

Job Title:
Trellix Professional Services Security Consultant (Public Sector)
Work Location: Hybrid / Onsite Norfolk, VA

Role Overview:


Role: Trellix Security Professional Services Consultant
Location: Naval Station Norfolk
Clearance Required: Top Secret
Up to 50% Travel Required

Company Overview:
Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity. The company’s open and native extended detection and response (XDR) platform helps organizations confronted by today’s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Trellix’ security experts, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerate technology innovation through machine learning and automation to empower over 40,000 business and government customers. More at https://trellix.com.

About the role:

This is a Full-time hybrid role at Naval Station Norfolk, VA in a classified environment. You will be

responsible for developing and delivering detailed IT solutions through consulting project

activities from client identification through to final invoicing. Works on complex problems where

analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. Exercises

judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and

evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Work leadership may be provided by assigning work

and resolving problems.

As a Professional Services consultant, you will be responsible for consulting project activities

from project initiation through project completion and final invoicing. A Professional Services

consultant is expected to interface with internal and external customers and is expected to

develop professional relationships that will enable the customer to achieve identified goals.

Among the tasks that a PS consultant will be expected to deliver, are:

  • Manage and perform client work, related to our product service’s offerings.
  • Create end of engagement reports describing engagement findings and analysis work.
  • Help develop and maintain intellectual capital within Solution Services around our product line.
  • Help identify and implement improvements in existing processes and procedures.
  •  Maintain technical proficiency through self-training or formal training.
  •  Help identify and develop new clients and expert services engagements.
  •  Provide knowledge sharing throughout the Solution Services team.
  •  Mentor consultant peers in new techniques, tools and other job skills.
  •  Deliver training when required.
  •  Possible helping update and/or create training course material.
  •  Interaction with company and client managers and cost/schedule monitoring and
  • estimating, proposal generation and invoicing.
  •  May participate in sales and proposal presentations in addition to completing ongoing
  • team account activities.

About the candidate:

  •  Understanding of cyber threats, attack vectors, detection capabilities, and associated countermeasures
  •  Experience working in a Security Operations Center to monitor security alerts, respond and remediate detected issues is preferred
  •  Clear understanding of organizational Incident Management processes in relation to threats and vulnerabilities
  •  Maintain a deep knowledge of Trellix (formerly McAfee) Endpoint Security, Application Control/Change Control, ENS, TIE, DXL, DLP, IPS.
  • Experience in Windows, Mac, Linux OS and application hardening, including understanding artifacts and behaviors.
  •  Experience with one or more scripting languages: Python, PowerShell, Go, C#, other command line scripting or similar is preferred.
  •  You may have experience scripting API integrations with response and orchestration tools like SIEM, SOARs and/or XDR platforms
  •  Experience with a NSP / IPS tool.
  •  Experience with event correlation and analysis.
  •  Demonstrated technical proficiency in cybersecurity operations, cybersecurity
  • engineering, systems engineering
  •  Experience with Virtualization (VMWare, Nutanix, etc.) and Cloud Services [i.e., AWS, Azure]) and enterprise networks.
  •  Deliver onsite and remote security application/endpoint protection designs, implementations, training, and knowledge transfer for a wide variety of customers.
  •  Be able to identify gaps in application and network security architecture and recommend strategies using a combination of industry-standard security best practices, software controls and other necessary changes to promote a higher level of information security practices.
  •  Author formal reports, architecture designs, optimization guides, and best-practice white papers covering a variety of security topics.
  •  Participate in conference calls, onsite meetings and roundtables with customers, sales, internal product development and support to gather data, scope new and existing work, evaluate or suggest new product features and assist in resolving existing product issues.
  •  Recognize and generate potential product and consulting services sales leads when appropriate and necessary.
  •  Detailed understanding of the TCP and IP protocol suites and ability to dissect and explain the contents of traffic and packets.
  • Experience with configuration of debugging, event generation, and logging functionality within the application and operating systems, using Syslog or flat-file generation.

Required Qualifications:

  •  5+ years of HBSS/ESS experience or similar Federal Government Enterprise capability
  •  Currently hold an adjudicated Secret Clearance and qualify for a TS/SCI clearance
  •  BA/BS +4 years recent specialized or AA/AS +6years recent specialized or a major cert + 8 years recent specialized
  •  Active DoD 8570 or DoD 8140 compliant cybersecurity certification
  •  Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Preferred Qualifications:

  •  Knowledge of DoD IT RMF, USCYBERCOM, and JFHQ-DoDIN
  •  Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Widows Server 2016/2019
  •  Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) SQL 2016 Database Admin
  •  Proficiency with Microsoft SCCM and/or other automatic reporting tools
  •  Adaptable to changing circumstances and operational needs
  •  Understanding of Department of Defense Military and Federal Government Agency standards
  •  Experience with Federal Government and DoD IT security requirements

Company Benefits and Perks:

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

  • Retirement Plans
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Support for Community Involvement

We're serious about our commitment to diversity which is why we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.