Information Systems Security Engineer

Information Systems Security Engineer

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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The Opportunity:

• The Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) shall perform, or review, technical security assessments of computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies.

• Validates and verifies system security requirements definitions and analysis and establishes system security designs.

• Designs, develops, implements and/or integrates IA and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, and enclave environments to include those with multiple enclaves and with differing data protection/classification requirements.

• Assists architects and systems developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.

• Supports the building of security architectures.

• Enforce the design and implementation of trusted relations among external systems and architectures.

• Assesses and mitigates system security threats/risks throughout the program lifecycle.

• Contributes to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations.

• Reviews certification and accreditation (C&A) documentation, providing feedback on completeness and compliance of its content.

• Applies system security engineering expertise in one or more of the following: system security design process; engineering life cycle; information domain; cross domain solutions; commercial off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf cryptography; identification; authentication and authorization; system integration; risk management; intrusion detection; contingency planning; incident handling; configuration control; change management; auditing; certification and accreditation process; principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, availability, and access control); and security testing.

• Support security authorization activities in compliance with Information System Certification Process (NISCAP) and DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF), the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) process, and prescribed business processes for security engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Participate as the primary security engineering representative on engineering teams for the design, development, implementation and/or integration of secure networking, computing, enclave environments, IA architectures, systems or system components.

• Apply knowledge of IA policy, procedures, and workforce structure to design, develop, and implement secure networking, computing, and enclave environments.

• Enforcement of the design and implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures.

• Support security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management.

• Identify overall security requirements for the proper handling of Government data and recommend system-level solutions to resolve security requirements.

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Twelve (12) years experience as an ISSE on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity to include recent experience within the last five (5) years with cybersecurity principles and technology, including access/control, authorization, identification and authentication, PKI, network and enterprise security architecture is required.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, five (5) additional years of ISSE experience may be substituted.

• DoD 8570.01-M compliance with IASAE Level 2

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