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Principal Cyber Security Engineer

The Vertex Company
Indianapolis, IN Full Time
POSTED ON 2/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/22/2025

V2X is growing! V2X is looking for a Principal Cyber Security Engineer to join our team!

The Principal Cyber Security Engineer will join our Cyber Engineering team in Indianapolis, IN as a key contributor in the implementation of cyber engineering for our embedded and avionics products as well as systems for DoD platforms. This position is in a technical growth area, and we need individuals who can apply their technical knowledge and experience to system security engineering and program protection concerns within the key areas of cybersecurity, anti-tamper, software assurance, and threat and design vulnerability analysis. The successful candidate exhibits a high degree of creativity and ingenuity, is a motivated self-starter, and demonstrates the ability to provide leadership and guidance to a cross-functional engineering team.

Typical Duties :

The Principal Systems Security Engineer will participate in the development of embedded security solutions and or security associated to defense avionics and will be responsible for leading and executing the security efforts for secure system products. Activities will consist of developing security requirements and specifications, developing security architectures, developing interface descriptions, leading RMF assessment and authorizations and leading vulnerability assessments. The Principal Systems Security Engineer must be able to work independently and as a member of a team in coordination with engineers in development, integration, test, and modeling. The Principal Systems Security Engineer will be responsible for developing advanced system security, integrity and information assurance leveraging RMF guidelines and concepts. The Principal Systems Security Engineer should also be able to apply security methodologies existing as well as new products under development. The Principal Systems Security Engineer must be able to communicate effectively with both internal and external customers and will be required to brief senior company and customer leadership teams. Travel (up to 25%) will be required to support testing at customer sites as well as various activities during the development phase.

Required Skills :

  • Minimum of 6 years of progressive technical (hands-on) experience related to Design and Development in Systems, Hardware or Software Engineering, Anti-Tamper, Cybersecurity or Software Assurance.
  • Working knowledge of secure systems technologies, methodologies, policies, and guidelines such as NSA and CSfC
  • Extensive hands-on experience designing, implementing, testing, and fielding real-time Embedded security-oriented solutions of Department of Defense (DoD) programs
  • Demonstrated working knowledge of secure systems technologies, methodologies, policies, and guidelines
  • Experience with design, development implementation in at least one of the following areas : Anti-Tamper (HW, SW, Systems), Cybersecurity, Software Assurance
  • Strong verbal / written communications skills and ability to interact with PMs and Customers
  • Experience with requirements development, analysis, derivations, verification and / or validation
  • Ability to interact with customers to define requirements, solutions, trades, costs, implementation, system impacts, and effectiveness
  • Develop top-level Embedded system requirements, and flow down requirements and implementation concepts to subsystems
  • Experience with commercial-off-the-shelf security technologies and trusted products
  • Experience applying the DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF)
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
  • Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret level clearance

Desired Skills :

  • Familiarity with sizing engineering efforts, bidding program pursuits and budget preparation
  • Experience interfacing with senior program and functional management
  • Experience with multi-level security solutions
  • Experience with commercial-off-the-shelf security technologies and trusted products
  • High degree of technical writing experience, in developing domain focused white papers, trade studies, and technical / policy documents in support of initiatives, programs and proposals.
  • Knowledge of reverse engineering principles and methods
  • Background in both Systems Engineering and Software Engineering practices
  • Knowledge of security standards, methods, and policies; risk and threat analysis; technical security safeguards; and operational security measures.
  • Knowledge of Program Protection Plan (PPP) required by DoDI and DoDI
  • ACTIVE Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain additional program-level special clearances
  • Education Requirements :

  • in Cyber Security, Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
  • Benefits include the following : Healthcare coverageRetirement planLife insurance, AD&D, and disability benefitsWellness programsPaid time off, including holidaysLearning and Development resourcesEmployee assistance resources
  • Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time and may be modified at the discretion of the company, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
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