Associate Systems Engineer - Cybersecurity

Company Overview:

ANSER enhances national and homeland security by strengthening public institutions. We provide thought leadership for complex issues through independent analysis, and we deliver practical, useful solutions. ANSER values collaboration, integrity, and initiative and we are client focused in all that we do. Because we were established for the purpose of public service and not for profit, we measure our success in the impact of our service.

Position Overview:

ANSER is seeking a Systems Engineer to support a federal program in cybersecurity planning, analysis, development, and promulgation of cybersecurity strategies. In this role you will provide engineering support, technical and analytical cybersecurity research, compliance and verification program support and Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) support.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Provide Cybersecurity (CS) Engineering Review Group Governance Board secretariat functions for the monthly community meetings to address technical CS challenges of major DoD systems, networks and interconnections; Non-classified Internet Protocol (IP) Router Network (NIPRNet) hardening subject matter expertise (SME) for the Department.
• Research and maintain relevant statistics regarding NIPRNet hardening projects and provide input to scorecard efforts; prepare responses to queries on CS engineering principles from the White House, Congressional Staffs, Defense Science Board, DoD Inspector General, Government Performance and Results Act and Freedom for Information Act Information
• Support requests for information and data; and day-to-day technical CS engineering support for critical mission infrastructure protection and safe information sharing with foreign partner cross domain connection requirements.
• Provide CS technical and analytical research and support for strategies, policies, and capabilities, funding and budgeting, and associated management methodologies.
• Assist with metrics, cybersecurity, secure and resilient architectures, cyber technologies, and risk assessment methodologies. Support the integration of these methodologies and associated services into measurement tools mapped to actionable and measurable CS metrics, emphasizing the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) security controls and Risk Management Framework.
• Assist with cyber analytics enabling informed, timely, effective, and accurate enterprise assessments for cyber and information technology portfolios and capabilities.
• Support the implementation and use of metrics and enterprise scorecards to track and analyze implementation and execution of DoD CS objectives, as defined by DoD CS strategies, policies.
• Identify and aggregate all major CS metrics efforts within the Department; support collaboration among major metrics efforts; leverage academic and industry experts; create and maintain dashboards to house, aggregate, and display data; support community collaboration and teaming through meetings and working group.
• Assist with implementing business transformation, portfolio management, or decision support methods, processes, and tools, to include measuring the execution and performance of the Department’s cybersecurity programs.
• Support plans and programs activities including CS portfolio management/focus team/issue paper support; program review support; responses to Congressional, Inspectors General, and other stakeholders' reports and audits; Legislative, Executive, and other Federal document review support, and Computer Network Defense oversight activities.