Accenture Federal Services
Cyber Engineer
About this role
Accenture Federal Services seeks a Cyber Engineer to deploy and optimize network detection and response (NDR) platforms across federal infrastructure. This role bridges security operations and infrastructure engineering, involving platform deployment, data integration with SOC tools, and detection rule optimization to support advanced threat hunting.
What you'll do
- Deploy Open NDR SaaS platform across physical, virtual, and cloud-based enterprise architectures
- Integrate sensor data pipelines and stream network evidence into SOC workflows, SIEM, and XDR/EDR tools (Splunk, Elastic)
- Tune detection capabilities and customize Zeek scripts to identify advanced attacks and lateral movement
- Optimize analytics frameworks using rulesets like Suricata
- Develop custom automation tools using Python for telemetry enrichment and response playbooks
- Manage network security monitoring (NSM) and packet capture (PCAP) operations
What they're looking for
- Network Security Monitoring (NSM)
- Zeek framework
- Python scripting
- Packet capture (PCAP) analysis
- Encrypted traffic inspection
- SIEM platform integration (Splunk, Elastic)
- Detection engineering and rule tuning
- Cloud and virtualized infrastructure deployment
Benefits
- Professional development through certifications and industry training
- Collaborative and inclusive workplace culture
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Hands-on experience with cutting-edge security technology
- Growth opportunities within federal technology sector
- Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work recognition
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Accenture Federal Services
Accenture Federal Services builds and maintains mission-critical technology solutions for the U.S. federal government, including cloud infrastructure, enterprise systems integrations, and cyber defense tools. The company is hiring DevOps engineers, full-stack developers, SAP specialists, and test engineers to support classified and unclassified federal government projects.
- Website
- accenturefederal.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience deploying network detection platforms across hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Describe a complex detection rule you've developed or optimized and how you validated its effectiveness.