Cyber Systems Engineer (MDT)

The program provides Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support in the areas of Cybersecurity and Management to improve the Information Assurance (IA) posture of a National customer. The contracts Core Capabilities are:  IA Management, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) coordination and reporting, Risk Management Framework (RMF) application, IA compliance measurements and metrics, Assessment and Authorization (A&A), Vulnerability Management, and Cyber Defense support.

Position Description:

The Mission Defense Team (MDT) SETA provides support to the customer in the area of Cybersecurity.  Daily tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Identify baseline, capability and coverage gaps
• Recommend process improvements
• Plan future requirements and capabilities
• Support specific technical efforts to enable mission assurance, resiliency, and defensive cyber operations
• Assist with validation and verification of MDT activities. Provide research, independent analysis, documentation, Concept of Operations development, planning, capability assessments and proof of concept activities
• Assess current and proposed changes to relevant processes, procedures, applications and infrastructure
• Articulate priorities, risks, issues and opportunities
• Ensure future capabilities are sound, meet documented requirements and standards and are maintainable for MDT operations.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Current U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Favorably adjudicated Polygraph
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) or an advanced IA certification
• DoD 8570 L3 certification in IAT or IAM
• Ability to assist MDTs with all aspects of cyber identification, protection, detection and response in order to be able to understand and recommend approaches and solutions to enable the MDT’s mission
• Experience with the customer’s operations environment; mission systems familiarity
• Understanding IPv4, networking, packet capture/analysis, routing/switching infrastructure, Cross-Domain Solutions, Type 1 & 2 encryption and intrusion detection system operations/functionality
• Experience with active and passive CND solutions and the analytics used to perform Defensive Cyber Operations with Mission Assurance to include Syslog, Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), IDS, Full Packet Capture, Elastic Stack, SIEM (ArcSight, LogRhythm, Splunk, Etc)
• AWS/C2S Cloud familiarity/experience and associated AWS/C2S Cybersecurity Services
• Ability to work in highly decentralized organization requiring both virtual and physical interaction with mission partners across organizational boundaries.

Desired:

• Self-starter requiring limited direction and supervision
• Experience briefing senior customer personnel
• Ability to organize and prioritize numerous customer requests in a fast-paced deadline driven environment
• Familiarity with customer's IA processes