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Attention! Remote role with 25% travel! Apex is seeking a highly accomplished SELinux Policy Engineer with demonstrated success supporting Software Development Teams and large software projects. For this position, we'll be asking you to work with a diverse team of exceptional engineers to produce a security enhanced, custom, built up Linux distribution, newly developed and existing software applications. General Job Duties
- Experience in implementing solutions to real security problems. Experience with system architecture, design, test and implementation.
- Ability to identify security vulnerabilities in the system components or network devices and provide innovative solutions.
- Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.
- Experience working with Secure Linux based servers, troubleshooting Linux boot issues and providing fixes as required.
- Produce reports and documents in support of system requirements and security certifications, write/contribute to white papers.
- Intimately familiar with Linux OS security processes, issues, and challenges.
- Be a leader and mentor to junior engineers.
- Past performance within the DoD, or a similarly regulated environment
- Experience with the RMF process
- Experience leading a team doing SELinux Policy development
- Experience troubleshooting others SELinux policy
- Understanding of RefPol and its limitations
- Experience doing formal policy analysis
- Solid understanding of the TCP/IP stack
- Experience with packet analysis tools (such as Wireshark) and analyzing Protocol Data Units (PDUs)
- Strong ability to read and understand code written by other people
- Experience with common Linux scripting / shell utilities
- Bash/sh / Python / Perl / Awk / Sed, etc
- Experience with the following tracing/debugging tools:
- Strace, Ltrace, Ftrace, gdb, etcFamiliar with technologies to enable applications to run with least privilege, and avoid full root permission, including Linux Capabilities (getcap/setcap), seccomp, containers, etc
- Experience with managing and securing Linux Containers (LXC), Docker Containers
- Experience working within virtualized environments
- kvm / qemu, libvirt, VirtualBox, etc
- Comfortable reading / compiling / debugging / customizing the Linux Kernel
- Familiar with enhanced Linux security hardening techniques
- cgroups, namespaces, seccomp, capabilities, SELinux, etc
- Have worked within an Agile methodology utilizing Scrum Teams
- Ability to take strategic guidance and execute in a self motivated manner
- Passionate about learning new technologies, tools, and platforms
- Experience with Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence).
- Experience with tools such as Bitbake, Yocto, WindRiver Linux
- Have taken a Yocto/WindRiver/OpenEmbedded based project from inception to market
- Experience with preempt-rt, or other preemptable Linux solutions
- Masters Degree and 5+ years of professional Linux systems/software engineering experience; Bachelor's degree and 7+ years, or In lieu of a degree you may substitute 6+ years of experience
- Must be a U.S. Citizen, eligible for a security clearance with the DoD
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with respect to all above requirements.
- 401(k) match
- Highly Competitive Salary
- Health Benefits
- Up to 15 Paid Vacation days / year
- 10 Paid Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement
Vacancy expired!