Current Job Openings at ARIN

Overview

Employees describe ARIN as offering a supportive, casual, and flexible work environment that provides an atmosphere of continuous learning while being responsive to the community we serve.

Located in Chantilly, Virginia, ARIN offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, training, and education reimbursement. In lieu of stock options (we are a nonprofit, membership association), we have a generous 401(k) retirement plan.

In 2017, ARIN was named a Top Workplace by The Washington Post.

Security Engineer

Apply: To apply for this opening, please email your resume to jobs-security@arin.net. This position will be designated under a hybrid work schedule and will be required to periodically work in the ARIN Chantilly, Virginia, office. Please note that this is an in-house position. Relocation not provided.

We are currently seeking a Security Engineer who will be responsible for analyzing existing and future systems, reviewing security architectures, and developing solutions that integrate information security requirements to manage information protection proactively. This individual will be responsible for monitoring events on both internal and external systems - ensuring that all systems adhere to ARIN’s security policy. The Security Engineer will be setting up and analyzing intrusion detection, abnormal traffic patterns, and auditing systems for known security vulnerabilities.

Job Description and Responsibilities

Proactively evaluate system and network security, make recommendations for improvement, perform preventive maintenance, and apply security updates as required by ARIN policies. Implement security practices and procedures in accordance with established guidelines.
Implement Defense in Depth principles and technology in security engineering design and implementation.
Take a lead role in implementing organization-wide compliance initiatives.
Assist the development and oversee the implementation of information security policies, strategic plans, and security initiatives that include security classification/categorization, risk and vulnerability assessments, security controls design and implementation, incident response, business continuity, security awareness, network and application security, and security audits.
Have experience with Suricata, Arkime, Graylog, OpenBSD’s PF, F5, and endpoint protection for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Evaluate, design, and establish monitoring mechanisms for performance, security, capacity, and maintenance. Monitor systems and make corrections or recommendations to resolve issues as they arise.
Review and assess information security events and logs via security information/event manager.
Provide on-call support for all critical network and system operations on a rotating basis.

Background/Skills Required

Four-year college degree, preferably in an information security or computer science-related discipline OR equivalent combination of education and experience. In lieu of education, four years of information security experience may be substituted.
Three to ten years of job-related experience supporting Linux or other Unix environments, focusing on security practices.
Proven experience monitoring, supporting, and managing complex Linux and Unix systems.
Experience with maintaining SOC 2 and PCI compliance and evidence gathering.
Ability to understand complex instructions and work independently.
Good interpersonal skills. Strong verbal and written skills.

Background/Skills Preferred

Familiarity with common Internet protocols such as TCP/IP, IPv6, DNSSEC, SMTP, and HTTP.
Familiarity with git, Ansible, macOS, Windows, Red Hat/CentOS system administration, network operations, and database administration.
Strong Python and Bourne shell scripting experience.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Apply: To apply for this opening, please email your resume to jobs-siteengineer@arin.net. This position will be designated under a hybrid work schedule and will be required to periodically work in the ARIN Chantilly, Virginia, office. Please note that this is an in-house position. Relocation not provided.

We are currently seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who will be responsible for reliability and automation of ARIN’s infrastructure systems and processes, with an emphasis on automation, enabling successful deployments, monitoring releases, and keeping software-defined infrastructure highly available. This engineer will run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health. The position will also build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications and improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of ARIN’s unique application solutions. This position will also provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple distributed software applications