Cybersecurity Engineer SME

MAXISIQ • Chantilly, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

MAXISIQ is seeking Cybersecurity Engineer SME candidates to be part of a dynamic team and provide support for a Sponsor’s program. This requisition is intended to identify qualified candidates for anticipated and future opportunities as business needs evolve. The Cybersecurity Engineer will target, assess, exploit, and report risks and vulnerabilities of information systems to provide senior decision makers with actionable data. Cybersecurity Engineers are responsible for IT security/vulnerability assessments and managing overall network security using network and security-related hardware and software. This full-time position supports work performed in Chantilly, VA.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
• Prior experience with programs of similar size and complexity
• Experience with the Sponsor and the Sponsor’s mission
• Bachelor's degree and 15+ years' experience.
• Demonstrated work experience in cyber security or related IT field
• Demonstrated experience performing complex technical tasks with minimal direction
• Demonstrated experience designing, testing, or implementing IT security architecture
• Demonstrated experience performing network security analysis
• Demonstrated experience developing risk management methodologies
• Demonstrated experience analyzing test results to develop risk/threat mitigation plans
• Demonstrated experience communicating vulnerability results and risk posture to senior executives

Nice To Haves

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Experience with the Sponsor’s entitlement management programs
• PMP, SAFe Agile Certification, AWS certification

Responsibilities

• Identify and define applicable security controls and responses for the project
• Review responses, enter responses into the cyber risk management platform, and update risks
• Identify common controls and draft common control language for the cyber risk management platform
• Perform security maintenance duties, such as performing analyses of vulnerabilities and providing recommended resolutions
• Maintain awareness of system level changes, ensure proper patch levels, and upload cyclic scans to the appropriate repositories
• Achieve and maintain system accreditation, including providing guidance, plans, and evidence and maintaining documentation
• Perform regular reviews, such as audits, and review security test results
• Participate in or lead technical exchange meetings and application review boards and document action items and results
• Brief management on status

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level