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Cybersecurity Tools Administrator

Arlington, Virginia, United StatesRemoteFull Time$100,200–$203,400 /yrPosted 2 months ago

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Role summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Cybersecurity Tools Administrator to manage and configure a suite of cybersecurity tools supporting network operations across various environments including CorpsNet, SIPRNet, and cloud platforms. This role is crucial for defensive cyberspace operations and the incident response lifecycle, ensuring tools for threat detection, prevention, SIEM, and vulnerability scanning are operational and secure. Responsibilities include installation, configuration, integration, maintenance, performance monitoring, and documentation of security tools. The position requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, with a minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity tool administration. Preferred qualifications include relevant certifications and familiarity with SIEM integration and automation.

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.
Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.
Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

Job Description:

The Cybersecurity Tools Administrator is responsible for proposing, developing, installing, managing, operating, maintaining, integrating, and configuring a suite of cybersecurity tools that support network cybersecurity operations across the program. These tools provide layered protection across endpoints, peripherals, data, email, web, and networks in environments such as CorpsNet, SIPRNet, cloud platforms, DMZ segments, network boundaries, and endpoint devices. This role supports defensive cyberspace operations and the full incident response lifecycle by ensuring that critical capabilities—including threat detection and prevention, traffic segmentation controls, data rights management, compliance to connect, SIEM, vulnerability scanning, and security operations infrastructure—are fully operational, tuned, and secured.

The Work:

  • Propose, install, configure, integrate, and maintain cybersecurity tools across multiple environments (CorpsNet, SIPRNet, cloud, DMZ, boundary networks).
  • Manage the operation and continuous tuning of cybersecurity tools supporting endpoint, network, email, data, and web protection.
  • Monitor resource utilization and system performance, ensuring tools remain operational, efficient, and securely configured.
  • Support deployment of new cybersecurity solutions and upgrade existing toolsets.
  • Maintain secure configurations, backups, and documentation for all security tools.
  • Develop and maintain cybersecurity security plans, diagrams, and related artifacts.
  • Integrate SIEM data, ensuring logs and telemetry flow properly and support threat detection and incident response.
  • Support vulnerability scanning capabilities and defensive cyberspace operations infrastructure.
  • Maintain and update network architecture diagrams and configuration baselines.
  • Collaborate with cybersecurity, network, and incident response teams to ensure tool effectiveness and alignment with mission needs.

    • Here's what you need:

  • Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field; or 4 years additional equivalent work experience.
  • Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience proposing, developing, installing, managing, maintaining, integrating, and configuring cybersecurity tools across enterprise environments.
  • Proficiency in threat detection and prevention tools, traffic segmentation controls, data rights management technologies, SIEM platforms, vulnerability scanning tools, and defensive cyberspace operations infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity toolsets across environments such as CorpsNet, SIPRNet, cloud platforms, DMZs, and network boundaries.
  • Demonstrated ability to maintain secure configurations, monitor performance, and contribute to new tool deployment.

    • Preferred Qualifications

  • Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CAP, or similar cybersecurity credentials.
  • Familiarity with SIEM integration, automation, and orchestration technologies.
  • Ability to maintain documentation, diagrams, and system baselines with high accuracy.

    • Eligibility Requirements

  • Must be a US citizen (No Dual Citizenship)
  • Must possess an active Secret clearance

    • As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

    The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is:
    $100,200—$203,400 USD
    What We Believe
    As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. We have an unwavering commitment to creating a culture in which all our people are respected, feel a sense of belonging, and have equal opportunity. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included. This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.
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    Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
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    The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information.
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