What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Software Assurance Engineer IRES - SSFB/HSV position at Jacobs?
Position Title : Junior Software Assurance Engineer
Location : Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO or Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL
Relocation Assistance : None available at this time
Remote / Telework : NO - Not available for this position
Clearance Type : DoD Secret
Shift : Day shift (Mon-Fri)
Travel Required : Up to 10% of the time
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Description of Duties :
The Junior Software Assurance Engineer supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract. The candidate will :
- Learn to perform software security audits identifying risks associated with software and provide a comprehensive security assessment for the MDA IC ISSM. This will include known vulnerabilities published to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
- Discover and compile a list of dependencies / bill of materials for software being audited.
- Use of various tools to discover vulnerabilities within a software application.
- Use various programming / scripting / query languages to correlate industry best practices for secure software development.
- Identify common security issues including input validation, error and exception handling, logging, access controls, SQL
- Injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), etc. and articulate how to mitigate or reduce their impact.
- Help correlate Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) vulnerabilities and other policies with vulnerabilities discovered and documenting them to be consumable by a wide audience.
- Monitor a queue of requests for software security audits.
- Assist with developing reporting metrics for team activities.
- Occasional Interaction with requesters of varied backgrounds to determine use-case scenarios, understand application architecture and to help determine risk mitigation strategies.
The successful candidate will :
Resumes, in month and year format, must be submitted with application in order to be considered for the position. The selected candidate may be assigned as an employee for one of our teammate companies.
