IT Test Engineer - Security Cleared Contract

IT Test Engineer is required to join a household name and marquee employer in the advanced technology and systems space, operating at the forefront of critical systems in multiple sectors spanning defense, engineering and industry.

For this particular contract you will need to have current or previously held security clearance. As the IT Test Engineer you will be responsible for planning, development, conducting and reporting on IT infrastructure testing. This will also include to plan, execute, and analyse Real Time test results from test events and experiments involving newly developed and evolving services and infrastructure.

Candidate requirements:

- Experience in test engineering; system-of-systems and large IT environments.
- Experience performing test activities in support of software and system requirements, design, development, testing and sustainment
- Experience with risk and analysis assessments
- You will also need to have current security clearance status
- Experience with HP Quality Center - Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- Experience with testing of the following components and products:
- Cross Domain Security services, including one-way data transfer, data labeling, email and file inspection, inter-domain attribution
- Boundary protection systems, including Firewalls and intrusion detection/protection systems
- Experience in security aspects of access control services, Active Directory and PKI solutions with Smartcard services
- Mobile device security to include smartphones and tablets
- Network security including Network Access Control solutions.
- Virtualization including VMWare, Hyper-V and CITRIX XenDesktop and XenApp client.
- End point device security including anti-virus protection, host intrusion protection, vulnerability assessment.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft product security and configuration concepts including Operating System Group Policy Objects (OS GPO's), MS SQL 2012 and MS LYNC 2013, System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Orchestrator, and System Center Operations Manager
- Red Hat Enterprise 7 (RHEL7)
- Scripting knowledge including regular expression development (REGEX) and PowerShell

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

My client is offering an initial 6 months contract on a very long term and greenfield project.