Cyber Security Systems Engineer POS

Job Description

Required Education, Experience, & Skills :

11 years relevant experience

Required Skills

• Possess multi-tasking skills, be able to handle multiple A&A systems / projects simultaneously, as well as being a good communicator / facilitator. Comfortable communicating at all levels from developer / engineer to senior contractor / customer staff
• Knowledge of complex network environments involving shared networks and multiple security enclaves
• Possess the ability to bridge the technical implementation (i.e. engineering talk) into commonly understood security verbiage. Often this is a skillset and is not an actual language, frequent translation or a basic understand needs to be conveyed by the ISSE when speaking with others or when communicating in writing in order to ensure it’s easy to understand at all levels.
• Document the various security control implementations as well as gather the artifacts that support the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and ICD 503 Security Accreditation for the various Assessment and Authorization (A&A) efforts
• Document and obtain a general understanding of the architecture being developed or that was developed for each project in order to write the Systems Security Plans (SSP) / CONOPS
• Gather the information by working with various systems owners, project managers, and engineering team members in order to write various additional A&A related documents such as Contingency Plan (CP), General User Guide (GUG), Privileged User Guide (PUG), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), etc.
• Support Accreditation and Authorization (A&A) reviews by Group level ISSMs and Security Controls Assessors (SCA)
• Document the Plans of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms) implementation responses or mitigations, as well as provide all required artifacts (i.e. evidence gathering from the system owners, PMs, and engineering teams)
• Coordinating with various contractor and customer personnel to obtain the A&A content, as well as working with various customer security organizations to navigate the customer’s A&A process in order to achieve Authority to Develop (ATD), Interim Authority to Operation (IATT), and Authority to Operate (ATO) for each of the primary and secondary assigned systems
• Keep track of where each of the various A&A projects are within the customer’s A&A process and be able to fluently discuss the status at all levels
• Provide appropriate support for ATO'ed systems that are in continuous monitoring

Desired Skills

Previous ISSE experience directly supporting the customer

Various security tools and reports such as GreenLight, Xacta, RoadRunner, Illuminate, Rapid 7, NMAP, WebInspect, App Detective, and Splunk

Public, private and hybrid Cloud experience (AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc.)

Basic knowledge is helpful, but not required for the following general topics : Cloud security control implementation, PKI implementation, STIG compliance and vulnerability management, and Security, Development and Operations (SecDevOps)

CISSP or GSLC certifications

AWS Certified Security Specialty

Microsoft Office products at the expert level (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

About Sabree Software Services

Sabree Software Services, Inc. (S3) is a full-service software firm headquartered in Northern Virginia.  We support the federal government and commercial arenas by providing high quality, system / software architecture design, full-lifecycle / full-stack software development services, usability engineering, testing, and project management services. Our team is comprised of an elite network of engineers, with advanced degrees, who have been providing technical services to our customers and partners in the DC metropolitan area for over 20 years.  We are committed to delivering innovative, multidisciplinary solutions in an agile fashion.