Senior Platform Engineer - CyberSecurity SME (TSSCI)

About the company:  At VivSoft, we aim to solve complex federal problems using emerging and open technologies in a collaborative and rewarding environment. VivSoft is a diverse team of strategists, engineers, designers, and creators experienced in building high performance effective softwares, with impactful organizational design and organizational dynamics for software delivery. We build secure Software Factories based on DoD reference designs and NIST Frameworks for Cloud and DevSecOps. These factories deliver AI/ML Applications, Data Science Platforms, Blockchain and Microservices for DoD, Healthcare and Civilian AgenciesPosition Overview:This role serves as a Cybersecurity subject matter expert responsible for advising the government on the development and execution of the strategic and tactical cybersecurity program with a focus on the coordination and development of system security concepts, capabilities, and problem resolution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the implementation of technical capabilities that satisfy Intelligence Community Directive-503 (ICD-503) and NGA security requirements.
• Assist in the identification, development, and testing of automated cybersecurity capabilities.
• Receive, identify, and provide cybersecurity requirements and translate those requirements into secure technical solutions that can be understood by customers, adopters, implementers, and developers.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Assurance, or related discipline.
• Licenses/Certifications: Information Assurance System Architect and Engineer Level 1, or Information Assurance Technician (IAT I) certification, or Technical Level III Certification (as outlined by the DoDD 8140.01)
• Demonstrated experience engineering, acquiring, using and decommissioning cybersecurity tools in large enterprise projects and programs.
• Demonstrated experience and certification securing virtual systems, cloud computing/hybrid environments and data infrastructure in large enterprise environments.
• Experience implementing processes, standards, and tools within an organization based on Agile software development concepts and best practices such as DevSecOps
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated experience that shows the ability to balance security compliance with program cost, schedule, performance, or mission needs.
• Demonstrated experience with network security architecture and systems security engineering concepts, including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g. application of defense-in-depth) and applying and incorporating security solutions into proposed information technologies.
• Demonstrated experience implementing security controls for Docker containers and Kubernetes based microservice architectures.
• Current DoD 8570/8140 cybersecurity certification and demonstrated experience developing and/or applying cybersecurity principles, policies, practices, standards, or controls.
• Demonstrated experience working on or with major defense acquisitions or large R&D programs.