Position Title: Cybersecurity ISSE
Position Type: Onsite
Location: Chantilly, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI CI Poly

Description:
We are seeking a Cybersecurity Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to support our customer with ICS/SCADA systems in acquisitions, development, operations, and disposal. The ISSE will apply security engineering principles, concepts, methods, and practices to ensure the protection of mission-critical assets within ICS/SCADA systems. This role requires collaboration across organizational teams to secure the assessment, acquisition, integration, and operation of these systems. The ISSE will play a vital role in safeguarding industrial control systems, ensuring a safe, secure, and resilient operational environment against current and emerging cyber threats.

Responsibilities:

• Define security requirements for ICS systems in collaboration with security stakeholders, including system engineers, program managers, security control assessors, and authorizing officials.
• Provide independent cybersecurity advice and guidance for ICS/SCADA systems to government stakeholders.
• Develop or review security designs and architectures for ICS/SCADA systems.
• Advise ICS/SCADA engineers on the best methods to remediate vulnerability findings.
• Support engineering analysis of alternatives, trade-offs, and risk treatment decisions.
• Guide system providers and programs in developing cybersecurity documentation for the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to deliver secure systems.
• Brief diverse audiences on complex ICS/SCADA and cybersecurity issues.
• Implement and assess cybersecurity solutions using current security scanning tools.
• Travel may be required to support program activities.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in system and/or security engineering, supporting U.S. Government customers subject to Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503.
• B.S. or M.S. degree in a technical field
• Professional cybersecurity certification (CISSP, CCSP, CASP ).
• Experience implementing NIST SP 800-82 and NIST SP 800-53 guidelines.
• Experience defining system security requirements with security stakeholders.
• Experience developing and reviewing ICS/SCADA system security designs and architectures.
• Ability to support engineering analysis of alternatives, trade-offs, and risk treatment decisions.
• Experience developing cybersecurity documentation for the RMF process per NIST SP 800-37 Rev 2.

Desired:

• Experience presenting communications to senior leadership, including ISSMs, ISOs, and security directors.
• ICS/SCADA security certification such as Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP).
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycle processes.
• Experience advising government ISSMs on ATO extensions and body of evidence reviews.
• Experience guiding systems through the RMF approval process according to NIST-800-37.
• Experience providing independent ICS/SCADA cybersecurity advice to government stakeholders.

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