[Remote] Endpoint Security / ESS Engineer (Journeyman)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DecisionPoint Corporation seeks a Journeyman Endpoint Security / ESS Engineer to support endpoint-security administration and compliance for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The role specializes in McAfee/Trellix tools, investigating security events and agent issues, coordinating endpoint remediation, and maintaining evidence for security-control and authorization activities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical specialist for the McAfee/Trellix endpoint-security technologies supporting the DoD Endpoint Security Solutions environment
• Support administration, configuration, maintenance, and monitoring of approved endpoint-security tools and services
• Implement and maintain approved endpoint-security policies, configurations, exclusions, rules, and enforcement settings
• Monitor endpoint agents for connectivity, communication, deployment, update, and operational-health issues
• Investigate unhealthy, inactive, noncommunicating, outdated, or improperly configured endpoint agents
• Diagnose policy-enforcement failures, update failures, deployment errors, and endpoint-protection gaps
• Implement Government-approved corrective actions and validate that endpoint protections have been successfully restored
• Review ESS reports and dashboards to identify security events, compliance issues, policy failures, and remediation needs
• Investigate endpoint-security alerts and events and coordinate response activities with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, and Government teams
• Coordinate McAfee/Trellix agent deployment, upgrade, repair, removal, and replacement activities with Task 4 infrastructure personnel
• Support endpoint-remediation activities involving operating-system configurations, security policies, agents, signatures, content updates, and approved software
• Confirm that endpoints receive required policies, signatures, content, and product updates
• Validate endpoint compliance following remediation, configuration changes, maintenance, or agent deployment
• Track endpoint-security findings, assigned owners, corrective actions, dependencies, deadlines, and closure evidence
• Support vulnerability remediation associated with endpoint-security configurations, agent health, or protection status
• Collect and maintain logs, screenshots, reports, configuration information, and other evidence supporting remediation and compliance
• Create and update incident, problem, change, and remediation tickets in the designated workflow platform
• Support cybersecurity incident reporting by gathering relevant endpoint data, event details, logs, timelines, and investigative evidence
• Escalate significant events, persistent policy failures, widespread agent-health issues, and unresolved compliance deficiencies
• Coordinate with system administrators and asset-management personnel to reconcile endpoint records, agent status, and authoritative inventories
• Support security-control testing and provide endpoint-security evidence for RMF, ATO, ATC, audit, and inspection activities
• Develop endpoint-security compliance reports, agent-health summaries, event metrics, trend analyses, and briefing materials
• Maintain endpoint-security procedures, configuration documentation, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and technical knowledge articles
• Recommend technical and process improvements that strengthen endpoint protection, agent health, monitoring, and compliance reporting

Skills

• Active Secret clearance or higher
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant cybersecurity, endpoint-security, information-assurance, or information-security experience
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification
• Hands-on experience administering or supporting McAfee endpoint-security technologies
• Experience supporting DoD Endpoint Security Solutions in an enterprise environment
• Experience with McAfee or Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator, Endpoint Security, McAfee Agent, threat-prevention modules, firewall policies, and web-control capabilities
• Experience monitoring and remediating unhealthy, inactive, noncommunicating, or noncompliant endpoint agents
• Experience troubleshooting agent deployment, policy enforcement, signature updates, content distribution, and endpoint-protection failures
• Experience analyzing endpoint-security events, alerts, logs, dashboards, and compliance reports
• Experience coordinating endpoint remediation with infrastructure, desktop-support, network, application, and cybersecurity teams
• Familiarity with Host Based Security System technologies or legacy McAfee capabilities used within DoD environments
• Experience supporting cybersecurity incident analysis, evidence collection, escalation, and reporting
• Knowledge of the DoD Risk Management Framework, NIST SP 800-53 controls, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, and applicable DoD endpoint-security requirements
• Experience providing technical evidence for ATO, ATC, security-control assessment, audit, or inspection activities
• Familiarity with ACAS or Tenable, STIG Viewer, SCAP tools, eMASS, ServiceNow, or comparable cybersecurity and workflow platforms
• Experience reconciling endpoint-agent status with configuration-management or asset-inventory records
• Experience developing endpoint-compliance reports, agent-health metrics, event trends, and remediation dashboards
• Additional certifications such as CySA+, CASP+, CISSP, Trellix product certifications, or equivalent cybersecurity credentials
• Familiarity with current DoD 8140 cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills
• Ability to manage multiple endpoint-security events, remediation activities, and technical dependencies in a structured enterprise environment

Benefits

• This position is remote.

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