Cyber Security Engineer

Description:

• Providing technical expertise, engineering direction, and guidance across multiple projects to define systems, security, and data architectures.
• Assessment of technology solutions; and develop implementation and integration strategies to improve security operations and network defense.
• Perform independent assessments of selected information technologies, mission processing systems, and associated acquisitions.
• Recommend investments to enhance information security.
• Apply policy and governance for mission requirements, evaluate technical standards and advancements for improving enterprise-wide cyber security.
• Support the architecture, analysis, and prototyping of cyber security technologies.
• Participate in studies, prototypes, market surveys, and product evaluations to identify tools and methods to bridge existing gaps and introduce new capabilities to address evolving threats.
• Collaborate across government and industry to collect lessons learned, leverage best-of-breed tools and processes, and identify hard problem focus areas.
• Partner with government leadership and working groups to develop enterprise plans and roadmaps to support a “future view” of technologies for the IC.
• Knowledge of cross domain solutions, mobility, data security, identity credential and access management trends.

Qualifications:

• Must have TS/SCI clearance for consideration.
• Experience with computer network defense technologies used in the IC, DoD, and commercial domains.
• Knowledge of securing and protecting virtualized and cloud environments
• Familiarity with government acquisition and system engineering processes
• Familiarity with mobile app programming languages and scripting tools. (e.g., Java, Python, C, C++)
• Strong communications skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical decision-makers.
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team.
• Understanding of the Cyber Security new and emerging technologies and trends.
• Familiarity of system security engineering processes.
• Enthusiasm and a desire to learn and grow.
• Extensive expertise in cybersecurity, with deep knowledge of emerging threats, attack vectors, and security trends.
• Proven leadership experience in managing cybersecurity teams and driving security initiatives.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and execute security projects effectively.
• Experience with security governance, risk management, and compliance frameworks.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field with 6-8 years of significant leadership responsibilities experience
• Familiarity with operational cyber concepts and objectives
• Familiarity with composition of executables
• Knowledge of virtualized and cloud environments
• Ability to work independently and independently learn new technologies, languages, platforms, etc.
• Experience engaging with senior government leaders.
• Understanding of, and experience in, the IC and DoD cybersecurity communities
• Experience developing strategies and CONOPS
• Strong interest in cybersecurity problems and advanced persistent threats, covering both operations and research.
• Experience with cyber threat indicators and prioritizing cyber threats.
• Superior customer engagement and communication skills
• Experience writing requirements and operational concepts for government acquisitions.
• Experience with Splunk and other big data cyber tools.
• Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Industry-recognized certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CCSP are required.
• Experience with security operations centers (SOCs) and incident response management