VectraAI On Premise Integration Engineer – Mid

REQUIRES AN ACTIVE / EXISTING TS/SCI WITH CI POLY - NO REMOTE WORK

Location: Reston, VA OR Washington, DC

Funding Status: Contingent

Position Description:

We are seeking an VectraAI Integration Engineer to deploy, tune, and sustain VectraAI Detect sensors and Recall pipelines in physical data centers, airgapped networks, and enterprise onpremise environments. This role focuses on network metadata, packetlevel telemetry, routing, sensor placement, and integration with onpremise SOC tooling.

Job Responsibilities:

• Deploy and sustain VectraAI sensors, collectors, and metadata pipelines in onpremise networks.
• Integrate VectraAI with onpremise SIEM/SOAR/EDR, packet brokers, and analysis tools.
• Engineer physical and virtual sensor placement including SPANs, taps, packet brokers, and eastwest segmentation visibility.
• Manage routing, VLANs, packet capture, and metadata transformation.
• Support STIGaligned configurations and secure baselines consistent with your onprem operating guidance
• Build monitoring dashboards, sensor health checks, and performance tuning workflows.
• Coordinate with operations teams to ensure reliable onprem telemetry ingestion and threat detection fidelity.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with onpremise network engineering or cybersecurity platforms.
• Experience deploying NDR platforms (VectraAI preferred) in physical/virtual data center environments.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, NetFlow/IPFIX, packet capture, and metadata pipelines.
• Experience with Zeek, Suricata, Arkime, Endace, or similar packet analytics tools.
• Experience with hardened OS builds, secure enclaves, access controls, and network segmentation.
• Proficiency with Linux engineering and system operations.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• HS diploma or GED and 7+ years of experience with supporting IT projects and activities, Associate's degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, or Master's degree and 1+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities.
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level III Certification such as SecurityX (formerly CASP+), CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH, CCSP certification within 30 days of start date
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 Cybersecurity Service Provider - Infrastructure Support Certification (CSSP-IS), including CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND Certification, within 30 days of start date

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience integrating NDR telemetry into SOC pipelines in secure onprem environments.
• Experience in environments with strict access controls or Zero Trust requirements
• Familiarity with virtualization platforms, physical rack deployments, and packet brokers.
• Experience with incident response and threat hunting based on raw network metadata.
• Security certifications (GCIA, GNFA, CISSP, etc.).