Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect - GTRI-ICL

Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.   

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Project/Unit Description

Trusted Interoperable Systems and Architectures Division
Information and Communications Laboratory
Georgia Tech Research Institute

The initial assignment for the candidate chosen will be completing tasks in support of the design, development and operation of a secure cloud-based infrastructure as part of the Medicaid Enterprise System Transformation (MEST) project. MEST is a multi-year project sponsored by the Georgia Department of Community Health with the goal of developing a modular enterprise system to manage Medicaid in Georgia.

Job Purpose

The Cybersecurity Research and Development Systems Architect designs and develops new systems, applications, and solutions for external sponsors’ enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks. The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect is responsible for driving adoption, identifying and defining new security objectives and controls and helping with the organization’s automated security validation development. This researcher also performs vulnerability analysis and exploitation of applications, operating systems and/or networks. The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect designs and implements Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) security solutions, and applies those ICAM solutions to advanced problem domains such as federation and trusted information sharing within select target communities of sponsors and project stakeholders. The Architect ensures system security needs are established and maintained for operations development, security requirements definition, security risk assessment, systems analysis, systems design, security test and evaluation, certification and accreditation, systems hardening, vulnerability testing and scanning, incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning. The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect also provides analytical support for security policy development and analysis, integrates new architectural features into existing infrastructures, designs cyber security architectural artifacts, provides architectural analysis of cyber security features and relates existing systems to future needs and trends. In addition, the Architect embeds advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction, provides engineering recommendations, and resolves integration and testing issues. The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect serves in a consultative role, defining controls for different platforms, including definition of protection rule sets, and threat mitigations for potential threats. The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect also interacts, advises, and counsels on a regular basis with internal staff as well as project sponsors and other stakeholders from the communities in which these solutions are implemented.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build templates to assist SMEs in providing critical system information
• Conduct product or system design synthesis translating requirements into physical architectures for cyber system of low complexity
• Contribute to technical reports and diagrams detailing product or system attributes
• Identify and define new security objectives and controls to assist with system cybe