Data Security Engineer (Senior)

Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance - REQUIRED

 

Overall Assignment Description:   develops and oversees the execution of long-term data security strategies to maximize systems, applications and infrastructure quality and efficiency. Provides technological, business and tactical guidance and leadership to the CDO/DCDO. Identifies opportunities for enhancing the Data security capabilities to support and achieve overall agency objectives. Assists the CDO with external industry boards or organizations. 

Duties include:

• Identifies opportunities for enhancing the data security capabilities to support and achieve 
  overall agency objectives
• Identify improvements to processes and workflows, related to physical and logical data 
  protection
• Collaborate with Information Security, Network Security and compliance teams to validate 
  that Data security design, processes and procedures align with broader agency policies, 
  standards and requirements.
• Plan and execute the protection of information found on NGA networks, working with 
  employees to make sure they are educated on security protocol
• Participates in team discussions to understand and provide inputs to system security 
  requirements
• Assists in leading day-to-day delivery to ensure team meets or exceeds service level 
  obligations to internal customers.
• Provide work investigating complex technical matters on a global scale spanning multiple 
  disciplines such as storage technologies, network security, identity management, data 
  destruction methodologies, and workflow integration.
• Collaborates within team to clarify work objectives, address and resolve issues, and generate 
  creative solutions to challenges and opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities and explain how to avoid them

Skills and Experience:
Required:

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent 
  Senior level experience as a Data Security Engineer
• Demonstrated experience in information security or related field
• Demonstrated experience developing data security standards
• Experience in application level, database, file system and full disk encryption

Desired:

• Experience with Talend, Sqoop, AWS Glue or related data transformational tools
• Experience in Hadoop
• Experience in AWS (S3, RDS, CloudWatch, EC2, etc.)
  Experience in MPP databases (such as Aurora, Redshift, Snowflake, Netezza, Teradata, Greenplum)
• Experience with Oracle
• Experience with Symmetric Key Cipher and Asymmetric Cryptography