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Location: Columbia, MD/remote

The Company:

Based in Columbia, MD, Attila Security is the leader in portable IP security. The company’s award-winning GoSilent platform was originally developed at NSA to protect government employees from advanced cyber attacks. Built for the cloud world where traditional network perimeters have disappeared, GoSilent helps global enterprises protect their most precious asset - DATA - wherever it resides. By providing visibility, control and threat defense across physical, virtual and cloud applications, Attila protects connected devices from the tidal wave of cyber activity estimated to cost the global economy more than $600 billion annually.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a senior-level engineer with technical experience coordinating US Government (USG) cybersecurity certifications. The ideal candidate should be seeking a principal technical position, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, and will be involved in mission critical technology decisions. As a small company, Attila can offer candidates autonomy and the ability to participate in all aspects of the architecture, design, development and deployment of our products and services. Telecommuting is available, with limited travel to the Columbia office on demand.

Responsibilities:

• Coordination and project management with USG cybersecurity certification bodies and associated test labs
• Creation and maintenance of documentation for USG cybersecurity certifications
• Identifying feature gaps within existing products that must be met to obtain cybersecurity certifications
• Writing requirements to close the feature gaps
• Development and presentation of training materials on USG cybersecurity certifications
• Regularly reporting progress on projects to various stakeholders

Required Qualifications:

• University degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent job experience
• 5+ years experience with obtaining USG cybersecurity certifications
• Working knowledge of NSA’s NIAP program and associated protection profiles
• Demonstrated experience with NIST’s FIPS CAVP and CMVP programs
• Exposure to NSA’s CSfC program and associated capability packages
• Knowledge of Linux OS, kernel, networking and iptables
• Solid understanding of PKI, X.509 certificates and key management
• Working knowledge of VPN technologies and protocols, such as IPSec

The following additional areas are not required, but desirable:

• Exposure to the DISA STIG’s and associated security policies
• Relevant programming experience (in any traditional language), enough to read/review code
• US citizen with security clearance or willingness to be sponsored for clearance in the future

Interested? Please send your resume and cover letter to careers@attilasec.com 

Location: Columbia, MD/remote

The Company:

Based in Columbia, MD, Attila Security is the leader in portable IP security. The company’s award-winning GoSilent platform was originally developed at NSA to protect government employees from advanced cyber attacks. Built for the cloud world where traditional network perimeters have disappeared, GoSilent helps global enterprises protect their most precious asset - DATA - wherever it resides. By providing visibility, control and threat defense across physical, virtual and cloud applications, Attila protects connected devices from the tidal wave of cyber activity estimated to cost the global economy more than $600 billion annually.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a senior-level engineer with experience in Firmware/Software programming for embedded Linux targets on constrained hardware platforms. The ideal candidate should be seeking a principal technical position, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, and will be involved in mission critical technology decisions. As a small company, Attila can offer candidates autonomy and the ability to participate in all aspects of the architecture, design, development and deployment of our products and services. Telecommuting is available, with limited travel to the Columbia office on demand.

Responsibilities:

• Development and maintenance of the build system for Attila’s embedded Linux distros
• Low level integration for embedded targets (e.g., bootloaders, BSPs, drivers, kernel config)
• Technical interface with hardware design partners and vendors
• Mentor for less experienced embedded developers
• Regularly reporting progress on tasks to various stakeholders

Required Qualifications:

• University degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent job experience
• 5+ years development experience with Linux in embedded environments
• Thorough knowledge of the Linux kernel, root file system and partitioning schemes
• Solid understanding of Linux package managers, in general – APT and RPM, in particular
• Experience with RedHat and Debian Linux distributions
• Relevant work with embedded build systems, such as Yocto, BuildRoot, etc
• Integration/development with BSPs and software drivers
• Experience with shell scripting and use of Linux command line utilities

The following additional skills are a plus:

• US citizen with security clearance or willingness to be sponsored for clearance in the future
• Experience with board bring-up in an ARM-based embedded system environment
• Use of GitHub/GitLab and Git tools
• Relevant programming experience with C/C++ and traditional make files
• Exposure to interpreted programming languages, such as Python or Java
• Working knowledge of VPN technologies and protocols, such as IPSec

Interested? Please send your resume and cover letter to careers@attilasec.com 

Location: Columbia, MD/remote

The Company:

Based in Columbia, MD, Attila Security is the leader in portable IP security. The company’s award-winning GoSilent platform was originally developed at NSA to protect government employees from advanced cyber attacks. Built for the cloud world where traditional network perimeters have disappeared, GoSilent helps global enterprises protect their most precious asset - DATA - wherever it resides. By providing visibility, control and threat defense across physical, virtual and cloud applications, Attila protects connected devices from the tidal wave of cyber activity estimated to cost the global economy more than $600 billion annually.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a mid-level network operations engineer with experience deploying solutions into the Amazon AWS Cloud. The ideal candidate should be seeking a technical position and not a managerial role. As a small company, Attila can offer candidates autonomy and the ability to participate in all aspects of the design, development and deployment of our products and services. Telecommuting is available, with limited travel to the Columbia office on demand.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecture and orchestrated deployment of cloud-based components
• Scalability, reliability and monitoring of production cloud-based services
• Active development on Attila’s products and services

Required Qualifications:

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Significant experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and associated services
• Familiarity with orchestrated cloud deployment tools, such as Ansible and Terraform
• Working knowledge configuring and troubleshooting routers, switches and firewalls
• Server high availability, scalability and load balancing
• Linux-based networking and iptables
• Working knowledge of VPN technologies and protocols, such as IPSec

The following additional skills are a plus:

• Experience with GitHub (or similar VCS) and Git tools
• Familiarity with shell scripting
• Relational database management (e.g., Postgres, SQL, replication)
• Virtual machine deployments via VMware ESXi or Hyper-V
• Security principals, such as PKI, sandboxing and certificate authorities
• Exposure to Python programming

Interested? Please send your resume and cover letter to careers@attilasec.com