Cybersecurity Engineer, Senior

Cybersecurity Engineer, Senior

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 25%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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What You’ll Get to Do:

CACI is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to support our Air Force program in Warner-Robins GA, at AFLCMC/HBG on Robins AFB, GA. 

The desired candidate may oversee the efforts of less senior staff; develop and maintains cyber plans, strategies, and guidance to align with organizational cybersecurity initiatives and regulatory compliance; design/integrates cyber strategies; provides guidance of cyber policy and strategy as appropriate; and ensures sound principles are reflected in the organization's mission, vision, and goals.

• Provide engineering services to support testing of software (SW) that is enhanced and subsequently integrated into the AF DCGS as part of the sustainment lifecycle.

• Responsible for implementing and applying technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs, and data from malicious attack, damage, or unauthorized access. 

• Researches and maintains proficiency in tools, techniques, countermeasures, and trends in computer and network vulnerabilities, data hiding and network and device security and encryption. 

• Designs, develops, or recommends integrated system solutions ensuring proprietary/confidential data and systems are protected in accordance with mandated standards.

• Participates with the client in the strategic design process to translate security and business requirements into technical designs.

• Configures and validates secure systems, tests security products/systems to detect information security weakness.

• Generates security architecture documentation.

• Provides critical written and verbal analyses of previously generated security architecture documentation and vulnerability and risk assessments. 

• Develops and implements Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&M) to remediate findings from vulnerability and risk assessments.

• Provide innovative cybersecurity test and evaluation services that comply with RMF requirements and assist with the ATO/Fast Track process. Interview system SMEs; validate controls; HW/SW lists; topology, and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).

• Provides information assurance for digital information, ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

• Prepare a system risk rating and determine risk reduction measures based on information assurance control subject areas.

• Prepare and maintain a Risk Assessment Report (RAR). Responsibilities monitoring and testing of IT systems for vulnerabilities and indication of compromise, incident response and remediation.

• Develops appropriate cyber security policies and tracks compliance with applicable DoD standards.

More About the Role:

• Maintain cyber security protection of the AF DCGS OA infrastructure, data, and applications.

• Support AFLCMC/HBGB in executing the cyber security requirements using an RMF consistent with the principles established NIST SP 800-37, and as outlined in DoDI 8510.01 RMF.

• Provide proactive continuous monitoring activity and support the implementation and operation of an insider threat capability.

• Identify and prioritize potential threats, and document both the harmful events and what actions to take to resolve them.

• Provide enterprise sustainment picture of the AF DCGS to include the likelihood of risk impacts to the mission.

• Develop methods of Threat Modeling and demonstrate methods to optimize network security by locating vulnerabilities, identifying objectives, and developing countermeasures to either prevent or mitigate the effects of attacks.

• Follow the established Risk Management Framework (RMF) processes to achieve interim approval and/or full authority to operate.

• Ensure all requirements are met as outlined in the ODN, ICD 503 and NIST 800-37 for the development of XACTA package Body of Evidence (BOE).

• Ensure all applications being sustained for the AF DCGS are operated and maintained in accordance with DoD, DISA), AF, SAF/IG and AF OSI security guidelines, directives, and updates.

• Work with Security Control Assessors (SCA) and associated teams to improve the security of AF systems by reducing risk postures through the identification of risk reductions and mitigations.

• Communicate effectively with other system engineers, system adm