Information System Security Engineer, NK-02-0061

Cyber B.A.T. Inc•Annapolis Junction, MD

About The Position

Cyber B.A.T. is seeking an Information Systems Security Engineer to support the assessment, design, and implementation of secure systems and architectures in mission-critical environments. This role will focus on identifying and mitigating security risks, validating security requirements, supporting RMF and authorization activities, and integrating information assurance throughout the system lifecycle.

Requirements

Twelve (12) years of experience as an ISSE on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity to include recent experience within the last five (5) years with Cybersecurity principles and technology, including access/control, authorization, identification and authentication, PKI, network and enterprise security architecture is required.
Four (4) years of additional ISSE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
DoD 8570 compliance with IASAE level 2 is required.

Nice To Haves

Love solving difficult technical challenges
Enjoy collaborating and sharing knowledge
Like working where your voice actually matters
Appreciate a culture that celebrates wins and supports growth

Responsibilities

Perform, or review, technical security assessments of computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies.
Validate and verify system security requirements definitions and analysis and establish system security designs.
Design, develop, implement and/or integrate IA and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, and enclave environments to include those with multiple enclaves and with differing data protection/classification requirements.
Build IA into systems deployed to operational environments.
Assist architects and systems developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application of Agency security policy and enterprise solutions.
Support the building of security architectures. Enforce the design and implementation of trusted relations among external systems and architectures.
Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle.
Contribute to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations.
Review certification and accreditation (C&A) documentation, providing feedback on completeness and compliance of its content.
Apply system security engineering expertise in one or more of the following to : system security design process; engineering life cycle; information domain; cross domain solutions; commercial off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf cryptography; identification; authentication; and authorization; system integration; risk management; intrusion detection; contingency planning; incident handling; configuration control; change management; auditing; certification and accreditation process; principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, availability, and access control); and security testing.
Support security authorization activities in compliance with NSA/CSS Information System Certification and Accreditation Process (NISCAP) and DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF), the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) process, and prescribed NSA/CSS business processes for security engineering.