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Senior Systems Engineer-Cyber Security Engineer (SRP) - On-site Woburn, MA P3

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United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Aug 2025
💰 $164,000/yr($82,000/yr$164,000/yr)

About the role

Date Posted:

2025-08-04

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA311: Woburn MA 225 Presidential 225 Presidential Way Goddard Building 27, Woburn, MA, 01801 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Raytheon is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer-Cyber Security Engineer (P3)to join our elite Systems Security Engineering (SSE) team in developing solutions to protect the Warfighter’s technology advantage. Systems Security Engineering creates holistic security solutions leveraging Cyber Security, Software Assurance, and Supply Chain Risk Management to support Program Protection Implementation on embedded weapons systems. Join our highly visible team and perform technically challenging assignments, which will directly contribute to protecting our nation and our Warfighters. This is an on-site position at Raytheon in Woburn, MA.

What You Will Do

  • Implement proper cybersecurity controls

  • Interact with customer to define SSE requirements, solutions, trades, costs, implementation, system impacts, and effectiveness

  • Maintain a Risk Management Framework Authorization to Operate for the system

  • Support developing plans and estimates, task execution, project tracking, reporting, and risk identification and mitigation plans

  • Plan and guide SSE implementations in customer systems

  • Consult and assist program line management with SSE architectures and issues

  • Define security development and test efforts implementation of security controls of networking devices, databases, operating systems, and hardware and software component

  • Integrate cybersecurity development activities

  • Developing top-level system requirements, and flowing down requirements and implementation concepts to subsystem

  • Validate secure configuration of routers, switches, firewalls, servers, operating systems, applications, and other assets, using DoD approved scanning and assessment tools such as ACAS, STIG, SCAP Compliance Checker or Evaluate STIG

  • Understanding and compliance with DoD technology release and export licensing policies

Qualifications You Must Have

  • Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and 5 years of prior relevant experience

  • Active and transferable U.S. government issued DoD Secret security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

  • Experience in Cybersecurity Engineering

  • Experience with NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF)

Qualifications We Prefer

  • Experience with cybersecurity toolsets including anti-virus, vulnerability scanning (Tenable Nessus/ACAS), HIDS/NIDS, host-based or endpoint security solutions (e.g. Trellix/ePO/ESS), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) and centralized auditing tools (familiarity with Splunk or QRadar)

  • Experience in generating Cyber Security and/or program protection requirements, design and architecture artifacts, plans, and/or policies

  • Security systems engineering involving various computer hardware and software S/W operating system and application solutions in both a stand-alone and in LAN/WAN configurations

  • DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level-II Compliant Certification (e.g. Security+, CISSP, CEH, or equivalent)

  • Security features and/or vulnerability analysis of various operating systems as defined by DoD or Intelligence agencies

  • Experience implementing DISA STIGs on various operating systems

  • Experience with IT and/or network and system security administration, including building virtual machines, operating system security configuration, and account management best practices for UNIX, MS Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Cisco systems

  • Linux Bash scripting and Python scripting experience

  • Understanding of Systems Engineering requirements, specifications, and experience implementing DoD and Federal IA Certification and Accreditation Processes, IA controls and developing and maintaining associated certification and accreditation documentation

  • Familiar with NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF), as described in NIST Special Publication 800-37

  • Familiar with Program Protection Plan (PPP

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