Cyberspace Warfare Development Engineer

DEFTEC Corporation • Chesapeake, VA

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About The Position

Cyberspace Warfare Development Engineer
DEFTEC delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. We are inspired by our clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements. Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Cyberspace Warfare Development Engineer supports NATO's capability development by designing, documenting, and validating cyber capabilities in alignment with operational needs and guidance from ACT's Program Director. This role involves translating operational requirements into detailed capability specifications, including functional and non-functional requirements, developing and supporting capability architectures, and creating implementation plans that address scope, timelines, cost, and risk. The engineer will build and maintain Communities of Interest across NATO organizations, Nations, Industry, and Academia to validate products and foster collaboration. Additional responsibilities include contributing to feasibility studies, foresight analysis, technical and operational assessments, and experimentation campaigns, as well as participating in meetings, workshops, and conferences with up to 20 days of travel annually within NATO boundaries. The position also requires performing additional tasks as directed by the COTR to ensure successful delivery of cyberspace capability development initiatives.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in system engineering activities, including definition, implementation and engineering of complex cyber defense and/or cyberspace capabilities is essential. In general, management experience, team leading, participation and/or contribution to the above activities will not suffice to qualify.
• Master's degree in engineering, systems engineering or computer science. A bachelor's degree and 5 years of recent experience in system engineering, capability development and implementation in a military context will be considered in lieu of a master's degree.
• Proven recent (at least three within the last five years) post-degree hands-on experience in authoring specifications, architectures, functional analysis and designs, preferably in the area of military information and cyber systems. Experience at the level of management, overseeing, participating or supporting shall not be accounted for.
• Post-degree education in CIS security and cyber defense disciplines, as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Security Expert or ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
• Post-degree hands-on experience in architecture drafting, preferably using NATO Architectural Framework (NAF) or similar standard (e.g. TOGAF).
• Expert-level certification at the level of Program Management Professional (PMP), AXELOS Management of Successful Programs (MSP) or Project Professional Qualification (PPQ).
• Demonstrated experience in planning, coordinating and executing workshops for various stakeholders including governmental agencies, academia and industry.

Responsibilities

• Based on NATO operational needs, requirements, literature review, and high-level direction and guidance from ACT Program Director, develop, describe and document cyber capabilities, including:
• Develop, analyze, validate, complete and enhance capability requirements, departing from operational requirements, to translate them into specifications for the capability description.
• Develop or support the development and documentation of capability architectures.
• Develop or support the development of capability specifications, including functional and non-functional specifications.
• Develop or support the development of implementation plans, including analysis of scope, timelines, cost and risk.
• Build and maintain Communities of Interest (NATO organizations, Nations, Industry, Academia) dedicated to the development and implementation of cyberspace capabilities, in close coordination with the Technical Director and ACT Cyberspace Federation & Partnership SME.
• Use those Communities of Interest to develop and validate the products resulting from tasking 1, above.
• Support and contribute to other capability development activities, including feasibility studies, foresight analysis, technical and operational analysis, experimentation campaigns, etc.
• Inform, organize and participate in meetings, workshops, conferences and other events, and travel to attend those, as needed, generally within NATO's boundaries for up to 20 days per year.
• Perform additional tasks related to the contract, as required by the COTR.

Benefits

• DEFTEC offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

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