Clearance Required: TS/SCI Full Scope Polygraph (active)

Onsite: 100% Onsite work (non-negotiable)

Type: Full-Time/Direct-Hire

Note: Available Immediately & Benefits posted below

Location: Chantilly, VA

Skill Level: 5 years to SME

Introduction:

Cyrten is seeking Systems Engineers for a long-term program supporting an IC customer in Chantilly, VA. This position requires an active TS/SCI full-scope polygraph clearance.

The Systems Engineer will provide technical expertise and guidance to drive the future of online operations, including designing and developing infrastructure, integrating new technologies, and supporting current operations. The position requires evaluating, integrating, and testing new technologies, conducting security assessments, and collaborating across organizational boundaries.

• Deliver and integrate new technical solutions and guidance for online operational objectives.
• Design, build, configure, and maintain infrastructure and infrastructure components.
• Understand the tradecraft necessary for conducting secure online operations.
• Keep current with internet technologies and services and evaluate their applicability and security implications.
• Evaluate new technologies, components, and services for applicability to the Customer’s activities.
• Integrate new technologies and services into an existing baseline with minimal disruption to operations.
• Research, develop, maintain, and document new methods, technology, and services for integration into online operations.
• Conduct quick-turn security and product assessments for new technologies.
• Communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries.
• Fully describe and document mission solution architecture and interfaces.
• Comply with the Customer’s Risk Management Framework.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagements and track work requirements and action items.
• Implement changes to current technical and networking solutions based on partner requirements, legislation, and policy.
• Conduct functionality testing for new and existing operational systems and applications.

Role:

• Demonstrated experience evaluating new technologies and services for compatibility with existing systems.
• Demonstrated experience researching and developing new technologies, services, or methods for integration into existing systems and baselines.
• Demonstrated experience integrating new technologies and services into existing systems and workflows.
• Demonstrated experience creating evaluation, integration, and test plans for new technologies, services, and components.
• Demonstrated experience with networks and network components, including understanding network architecture diagrams and related information.
• Demonstrated experience with Virtual Private Servers, Virtual Private Networks, and Virtual Private Clouds.
• Demonstrated experience with virtual environments and emulated mobile devices.
• Demonstrated experience with Android O/S, including understanding how the operating system works and its security settings.
• Demonstrated experience with domestic and foreign social media and security implications associated with utilizing social media sites.
• Demonstrated experience with commercial messaging applications and their security configurations.
• Demonstrated experience performing technical analysis on networks and applications to evaluate security and applicability to online operations.
• Demonstrated experience with browser security settings and add-ins.
• Demonstrated experience with technical troubleshooting related to networks, hardware, internet services, and mobile applications.
• Demonstrated experience consulting with customers to determine present and future user requirements.
• Demonstrated experience communicating complex technical topics to non-technical individuals.
• Demonstrated experience defining, analyzing, tracking, and reviewing requirements.

Nice to Have:

• Demonstrated experience working with commercial cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience utilizing network monitoring tools.
• Demonstrated experience with an understanding of network fundamentals, TCP/IP routing, switching, firewalls and VPNs, Ethernet, DS1, T1, routing concepts and routing protocols, HSRP, VRRP, DHCP, switching, 802.1Q, STP, VLANs, EtherChannel, IP Addressing, Subnetting, and VPN.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud networking concepts.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Tor as a means of obfuscating online activities.
• Demonstrated experience with internet encryption protocols.
• Degree or educational background in computer science, information science, systems engineering, or a related discipline.

Salary:

• No 3rd party vendors or candidates
• US Citizenship Required
• Active TS/SCI - FSP is Required