| Location | Leesburg, VA |
| Salary | $155,000–$175,000 Per Year |
Sr. Linux Security Engineer
Information Systems
Security
$ 155000 - $ 175000 / Year
location_onLeesburg, Virginia
acutePermanent
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Akkodis is seeking an experienced Senior Linux Security Engineer to help develop and expand enterprise security monitoring and detection capabilities. This is a highly technical, hands-on position for an engineer who enjoys building security infrastructure, improving visibility, and turning large volumes of system and network telemetry into meaningful security intelligence.
This opportunity is especially well suited for someone with a strong Linux engineering background who has worked extensively with SIEM, log management, endpoint monitoring, and detection technologies. The successful candidate will have experience developing security platforms and data pipelines, rather than solely monitoring alerts within an established SOC environment.
Salary Range: $155,000-175,000/annually, the rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.
Responsibilities:
Engineer and enhance enterprise security monitoring, logging, and threat-detection capabilities.
Deploy, configure, and optimize endpoint security technologies such as Wazuh, OSSEC, or comparable platforms.
Develop detection rules, event correlations, alerting logic, and behavioral or anomaly-based monitoring.
Connect infrastructure, applications, endpoints, and other telemetry sources with centralized SIEM and log analytics platforms.
Create reliable pipelines for collecting parsing, enriching, normalizing, and routing security event data.
Investigate system and security events to evaluate detection effectiveness and reduce unnecessary alerting.
Incorporate network telemetry, including NetFlow, into broader monitoring and detection strategies.
Partner with infrastructure and engineering teams to improve the availability, consistency, and usefulness of security telemetry.
Develop dashboards and visualizations using platforms such as OpenSearch or Elastic.
Automate security engineering and platform-management activities using technologies such as Python, Bash, and Ansible.
Maintain clear technical documentation covering platform architecture, configurations, detection methodologies, and operational processes.
Qualifications:
Strong hands-on experience administering and engineering Linux-based environments.
Demonstrated experience working with SIEM, centralized logging, or security analytics platforms, ideally including OpenSearch, Elastic, or similar technologies.
Experience implementing or managing Wazuh, OSSEC, EDR, or related endpoint security technologies.
Proven ability to create, test, refine, and maintain security detections and alerting logic.
Understanding end-to-end logging architecture, including collection, parsing, data transformation, normalization, ingestion, and analysis.
Experience analyzing security events and troubleshooting complex telemetry or logging issues.
Working knowledge of Python and/or Bash for scripting and automation.
Most importantly, experience building, deploying, or substantially improving security platforms, rather than exclusively operating existing solutions.
Why This Role
This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer to have a direct impact on how security telemetry is collected, analyzed, and transformed into actionable detections. Rather than stepping into a purely operational monitoring position, you'll have the opportunity to build and improve the technology behind the security operation.
If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Benefits offerings include but are not limited to:
Medical insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision assistance
Paid Time Off
401(k) with match
To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit https://www.akkodis.com/en/privacy-policy.
The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
Pay Details: $155,000.00 to $175,000.00 per year
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Military connected talent encouraged to apply
To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.akkodis.com/en/us/candidate-privacy-policy
The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
Massachusetts Candidates Only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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