2027 New Grad Information Security Engineer

Title: 2027 New Grad Information Security Engineer Location: Costa Mesa, California, United States

Our Space Classified IT and Cyber Team builds and secures the IT systems. We're hiring an entry-level Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) who wants hands-on experience. You'll harden, scan, and automate real systems in our unclassified environment, both on premises and in AWS and Azure, working alongside the system administrators, network engineers, and security staff who run them.
WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Harden Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems to DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), check your work with SCAP tools, and document the results

• Secure AWS and Azure environments: identity and access, logging, encryption, and compliance checks with tools like AWS Security Hub and Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Write Ansible playbooks and scripts that apply and verify security settings

• Build and test hardened images, patches, and configuration changes before production rollout

• Help run ACAS (Tenable) scans and work findings to closure with system and network engineers

• Configure and tune security tools such as Splunk and Trellix

• Write authorization documentation: security plan sections, diagrams, and assessment evidence

• Follow change control and document what you build

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• VMware vSphere, Active Directory, and enterprise storage, and how to secure them

• DoD cloud security: impact levels and the Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide

• DoD security tooling, including ACAS, the SCAP Compliance Checker, Evaluate-STIG, and Splunk

• How systems earn an authorization to operate (ATO) under RMF and JSIG

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Must be pursuing or have recently completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on program.

• Able to start full time in 2027.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Comfort on the Linux and Windows command line

• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, subnetting, DNS, VLANs

• Scripting in at least one of Python, Bash, Yaml, or PowerShell

• Clear written communication

• AWS or Azure experience, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AZ-900, or a free-tier project

• A home lab on any hypervisor (Proxmox, Hyper-V, KVM, VirtualBox, or ESXi)

• Hands-on with STIG Viewer, SCAP Compliance Checker, OpenSCAP, or Nessus (Essentials counts)

• Windows Server, Active Directory, or Group Policy experience

• Ansible, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tools

• Familiarity with RMF, NIST SP 800-53, or NIST SP 800-171

• Storage basics: RAID, iSCSI and NFS, and snapshots versus backups