What are the responsibilities and job description for the Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) (MD) (Mid/Sr.-TS/SCI w/FSP-Onsite) position at Maintec Technologies?
Industry : Government & Policy
Job Category : Information Technology - Computer Network Security
We are currently seeking an Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to support a nationally significant and fast-paced program. An ISSE is needed to provide support for adding new capabilities to a complex system with an exacting interface, performance, and security requirements. The selected individual will become part of a team of Security Engineers working on solving challenging issues on a large, significant program. The position requires a solid understanding of security practices and policies as well as hands-on vulnerability testing experience. The selected individual will collaborate with other engineers and technical experts in providing improvements to our operational, test, integration, and development systems.
Responsibilities :
The selected candidate will have numerous responsibilities from day to day drawn from a wide array of activities. The strongest candidates will have experience working in these areas :
- Validating and verifying system security requirements and establishing system security designs for large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
- Identifying and implementing appropriate information security architectures and functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.
- Recommending and developing technical solutions, products, and standards based on current and desired system security architecture.
- Assessing and mitigating system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle.
- Leading and / or contributing to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification, and awareness activities for various system and networking operations.
- Effectively collaborating with other internal technical experts on a day-to-day basis.
- Communicating with Program Managers and POCs from customer organizations when necessary regarding Security issues of significant importance.
- Participating in program increment planning and related agile team activities.
- Working closely with System Engineering, Test Engineering, and Integration teams to ensure that the hardware and software architecture and implementation meet the security requirements for processing classified information.
- Analyzing and assessing system implementation against multiple security compliance policies and recommending and implementing enhancements.
- Evaluating the impact of new development on the operational security posture of the system.
- Evaluating, reviewing, and testing security-critical software.
- Proposing, assessing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
- Auditing and assessing system security configuration settings using common methodologies and tools.
- Managing and enforcing security strategies and policies that affect various components of the geographically distributed systems.
- Evaluating security solutions to ensure they meet customer-specified requirements for processing classified information.
- Providing configuration management for security-relevant information system software.
- Serving as a subject matter expert in security architecture including providing advice to Program Managers, Customer technical experts, and internal program teams.
- Formulating security compliance requirements for new system features.
- Identifying and remediating security issues throughout the system.
- Supporting risk assessment, risk management, security control assessment, continuous monitoring, service design, and other IA program support functions.
- Working with development teams to enrich team-wide understanding of different types of vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and remediation approaches.
- Planning and conducting security verification testing of relevant type 1 devices.
Required Qualifications :
Preferred Qualifications :
Skills and Certifications [note : bold skills and certification are required]
TS / SCI w FS Poly
CISSP
Security Clearance Required : Yes
Visa Candidate Considered : No
