Senior System Security Engineer

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory•Cambridge, MA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Secure Solutions Group within the System’s Engineering Directorate is seeking a Senior System Security Engineer to support engineering, integrating, and deploying trustworthy secure platforms that resist cyber, reverse engineering, and supply chain threats. The group has multidisciplinary proficiencies in secure systems architecture, hardware security and resilience, software security and resilience, system validation and accreditation, and cryptography.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field.
Bachelor's degree requires 5-10 years' experience of working on System Security Engineer or other relevant position.
Master's degree requires 3-5 years' experience of working on System Security Engineer or other relevant position.
Proficiency in full life-cycle systems engineering (architecture, design, development, integration, approval, and deployment) of security technologies and components within cyber-physical systems and systems-of-systems
Experience in the design and implementation of secured systems based on system requirements, design analysis, and consideration of external vectors
Familiarity with processes and technologies for identification of critical program information and development of the associated program protection plans
Experience in the development of System Security documentation per Government requirements
Familiarity with developing and implementing Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
Understanding of supply chain operations, risk management framework, information assurance, technology protection
Familiarity with the processes and technologies for cross-domain products, including secured firmware solutions and microelectronics
An understanding of the fundamentals of cryptographic key management, public key infrastructure, and NSA’s Key Management Infrastructure, and the applications of cryptology
Experience in writing innovative R&D proposals to commercial and government sponsors
Current in-scope Secret security clearance required, Top Secret preferred.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree preferred.
Familiarity with DOORS, MATLAB, and/or Python
Flexibility to multi-task and adapt to changing priorities, technologies, and program needs

Responsibilities

Develop, execute and track the performance of security measures to protect information and network infrastructure and computer systems.
Design computer security strategy and engineer comprehensive cybersecurity architecture.
Identify, define and document system security requirements and recommend solutions to management.
Configure, troubleshoot and maintain security infrastructure software and hardware.
Install software that monitors systems and networks for security breaches and intrusions.
Monitor systems for irregular behavior and set up preventive measures.
Plan, develop, implement and update company’s information security strategy.
Educate and train staff on information system security best practices.
Able to take ownership of assignments and guide others as needed; successfully lead tasks while tracking priorities, scope, cost and schedule.
Derive plans and approaches to solving complex problems across a program lifecycle, capturing all assumptions and adapting appropriately to changes in requirements with limited direction.
Independently contributes high quality content for technical reports and presentations which shows an understanding of their task and an awareness of the intended audience. Demonstrates both confidence and success when presenting technical information during meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies for them.
Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback.