Cyber Security Engineer

KBR • El Segundo, CA

173d

About The Position

KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country's most critical role - protecting our national security. KBR is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to join our team in El Segundo, CA. An active TS/SCI is required to be considered for this position.

Requirements

• 5 to 10 Years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• Able to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings.
• Able to apply technical expertise, and may have knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Work is performed under limited direction.
• Exercises latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment.
• Completed work may be reviewed from a relatively long-term perspective, for desired results.
• No formal supervisory responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Deeply involved in the design, testing and implementation of state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database products.
• Conducts risk assessment and provide recommendations for application design.
• Deeply involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access.
• Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
• Uses encryption technology, penetration and vulnerability analysis of various security technologies, and information technology security research.
• Deeply involved in the design and development of new systems, applications, and solutions for external customer enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks.
• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Integrates new architectural features into existing infrastructures, designs cyber security architectural artifacts, provides architectural analysis and relates existing system to future needs and trends, embeds advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction, provides engineering recommendations, and resolves integration/testing issues.
• May interface with external entities including law enforcement, and intelligence/government agencies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree