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 e-mail your resume to jobs-security@arin.net. This position will be designated under a primarily offsite work schedule but will be required to periodically work in the ARIN Chantilly, Virginia office. Please note that this is an in-house position. Relocation not provided. Any offer of employment is contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check, including references. Final candidates will need to complete a background check authorization form.

We are currently seeking a Security Engineer who will be responsible for the security aspects of building, configuring, monitoring, and reporting on a wide array of complex systems, hosts, and network devices.

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.
Assist with maintaining and evidence collection for 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.
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 security support for all critical networks and systems on a rotating basis.

Additional Duties • Contribute to the design, building, and implementation of applications and systems as needed. Provide subject matter expertise on security issues related to Linux, Unix, macOS, and Windows-based platforms and technologies. • Perform other related duties as required and assigned. • Ability and willingness to travel in accordance with ARIN travel guidelines.

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.
5-7 years of job-related experience supporting Linux or Unix environments, focusing on security practices.
Extensive experience in monitoring, supporting, and managing complex Linux and Unix systems, especially Red Hat/CentOS systems.
Have experience with Suricata, Arkime, Graylog, OpenBSD’s PF, F5, and FortiMail antispam appliances, as well as endpoint protection for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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, DNS, DNSSEC, SMTP, and HTTP.
Familiarity with git, Ansible, macOS, Windows, network operations, and database administration.
Strong Python and Bourne shell scripting experience.

Physical Requirements

Ability to pick up and maneuver computer equipment weighing 20-40 pounds.

Site Reliability Engineer

Apply: To apply for this opening, please e-mail your resume to jobs-sreng@arin.net. This position will be designated under a primarily offsite work schedule but will be required to periodically work in the ARIN Chantilly, Virginia office. Please note that this is an in-house position. Relocation not provided. Any offer of employment is contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check, including references. Final candidates will need to complete a background check authorization form.

We are currently seeking a Site Reliability Engineer who will be responsible for the reliability and automation of ARIN’s infrastructure systems and processes, with an emphasis on automation, enabling successful deployments, monitoring releases and keeping software-defined and containerized infrastructure highly available. This engineer will run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health. This position will also measure and optimize system performance and provide operational support and engineering for multiple distributed software applications and databases.

Job Description and Responsibilities

Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
Support development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
Participate in platform management and capacity planning.
Utilize Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible to automate deployments and configurations.
Manage, configure and troubleshoot operating system issues, storage, networking, and administer high-availability PostgreSQL clusters.
Continuously evaluate system security, make recommendations for related improvements and incorporate security improvements as required by ARIN policies.
Provide technical expertise in the operation of all information or database platforms and DNS zones managed by ARIN.
Establish guidelines and training for disaster recovery processes.
Evaluate and make recommendations on hardware and software products based on an assessment of operating requirements.
Provide on-call support for all critical network and system operations on a rotating basis.

Additional Duties

Perform other related duties as required and assigned.
Ability and willingness to travel in accordance with ARIN travel guidelines.