Senior Systems Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your Impact: . We are looking to hire a Senior System Engineer to support a full range of cyber security services on a long-term contract in Washington DC. The position is full time/permanent and will support a US Government civilian agency. The position is available immediately upon finding a qualified candidate with the appropriate background clearance. This position supports a government client and is fully a remote position

Responsibilities: 

·        Serving as a technical advisor and consultant to colleagues support our government customer leadership on the implementation of the Department's information systems security policy and guidelines.

·        Assisting government leadership in making integration decisions, analyzing design constraints and trade-offs in system and security design, and ensuring integrity of customers mission objectives, while protecting customer assets from cyber threats and vulnerabilities.

·        Advocating for, influencing and/or defending policy and program decisions among Department leaders and high-ranking officials across government and develop novel solutions that impact matters of national significance related to the customer’s Cybersecurity mission.

·        Collaborating with internal and external customer stakeholders and national experts to budget for, architect, and design enterprise cybersecurity solutions.

·        Reviewing security and privacy requirements to isolate system needs and translating those requirements into secure technical and operational specifications.

·        Conducting and evaluating design reviews and conducting security risk assessments, gap analyses, and business impact analyses to detect system weaknesses, identifying the depth and breadth of needed security controls, and making targeted recommendations to address issues and mitigate risks.

·        Designing and evaluating networks that are secure from known and perceived methods of cyber-attack on all elements including but not limited to wired and wireless elements, Cloud-based, and virtual environments, incorporating secure controls.

·        Establishing defense in-depth mechanisms to detect, deflect, or mitigate cyber-attacks on networks and communications systems and structures.

·        Designing and evaluating security solutions

·        Assisting with the analyzing software risks, understanding likely points of attack, and determining how software will mitigate potential attacks.

·        Assisting with the review of systemic threats in deployment environments and vulnerabilities of applications and identifying application vulnerabilities, taking into consideration security controls, recovery strategies, contingency plans, and testing and evaluation.

·        Executing and/or assisting development based on secure design specifications, utilizing secure tools and methodologies.

·        Tracking and correcting system defects through testing and implementation phases.

·        Providing oversight of systems testing and evaluation and test case development and mapping.