Information Security Systems Engineer Position Summary
In this position you will work on developmental and operational teams responsible for system security engineering services of developmental and operational systems for our federal government client in a highly secure and sensitive environment. Essential responsibilities and activities include but are not limited to:

• Provide system security engineering services and/or products to ensure secure reliable and uninterrupted availability of the Sponsor's developed and deployed systems and networks.
• Provide core security engineering principles are implemented into assigned programs information systems architecture.
• Perform analysis and evaluation to design, implement, test and field secure systems, networks, and architectures. Work closely with the architects, engineers, and developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.
• Enforce the design and implementation of trusted relations among external systems and architectures.
• Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Contribute to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations.
• Review assessment and accreditation (A&A) documentation, provide feedback on completeness and compliance of its content.
• Apply system security engineering expertise in the following to: 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.
• Provide security requirements to architects, engineers and developers.
• Verify systems implementation and provide mitigation recommendations to facilitate secure systems for A&A and Continuous Monitoring support.
• Serve as the security subject matter expert for the A&A and Continuous Monitoring processes.
• Provide guidance to the System Owners and System Teams and recommend implementation strategies.
• Support the Government to resolve conflicting system security engineering requirements.

Position / Candidate Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and may meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. Citizenship, for access to classified information; active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph clearance REQUIRED
• Education/Experience: Technical or Business Discipline and/or Experience Supporting the Federal Government and
• A Bachelors Degree in Engineering and 8 Years of Experience

Abilities

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Identify and understand the speech of another person.

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