Cybersecurity Research Assistant

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $85k - $110k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🧬 Research Scientist

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Axle Informatics

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501 - 1000 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🏥 Healthcare

🔬 Science

Biotechnology • Healthcare • Science

Axle Informatics is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, health informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations around the globe. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we develop and apply research tools and techniques that empower decision-making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by offering the responsiveness of a small business coupled with the experience, breadth, and depth of a large organization.

📋 Description

• Implement assigned security controls across Kubernetes, Linux, database, and model-serving environments • Build and operate monitoring and detection coverage, including metrics, dashboards, log aggregation, and alert routing • Run scheduled vulnerability scans across container images, hosts, and application dependencies; track findings to closure and maintain plans of action and milestones • Write and maintain Ansible and Python automation for hardening baselines and drift detection • Contribute to secrets management, network policy, and role-based access control across cluster environments • Build deterministic collectors for cluster, policy, scanning, access-control, and database configuration evidence • Help build internal AI tooling for control-catalog/documentation retrieval, evidence drafting, and scanner-output triage • Keep security documentation aligned with deployed configuration and escalate discrepancies • Test controls, alerts, policies, backups, and implementations • Document work for future assessors • Prepare security review and continuous monitoring materials with supervisors for assessors or authorizing officials • Work alongside experienced engineers on a federal authorization effort under joint supervision from the AI technical lead and lead systems administrator

🎯 Requirements

• One to three years of professional experience in IT, systems administration, help desk, network operations, or a comparable hands-on technical role • Comfort on the Linux command line • Scripting ability in Bash and Python • Demonstrated interest in security • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Security clearance • Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent professional experience or a completed technical certification program may substitute for a degree • Working knowledge of Linux system administration, ideally on RHEL-based systems such as Rocky Linux, and Ubuntu • Basic understanding of networking, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and firewalls • Basic familiarity with containers and interest in learning Kubernetes • Familiarity with version control and shared Git repositories • Ability to follow written procedures precisely and identify errors • Clear written communication • Interest in federal security authorization, NIST security controls, continuous monitoring, and evidence review • Desired: CompTIA Security+, Network+, Linux+, Kubernetes, or cloud certification; cybersecurity/information assurance coursework; NIST/security framework/compliance exposure; home lab, capture-the-flag participation, open-source contributions, or personal project; Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, or other monitoring/logging platform experience; curiosity about large language models; NIH/federal agency or federal IT experience

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage for Employees • Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays • 401K match up to 5% • Educational Benefits for Career Growth • Employee Referral Bonus • Healthcare (FSA) • Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK) • Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP) • Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN) • Axle will sponsor certification exams and study materials • Scheduled working hours for certification study