Job Description

The client is looking for an Information Systems Security Engineer will be responsible for performing, and reviewings, technical security assessments of computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations and recommend mitigation strategies.

Essential Job Functions

• Validates and verifies system security requirements definitions and analysis and establishes system security designs.

• Designs, develops, implements and/or integrates IA and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, and enclave environments to include those with multiple enclaves and with differing data protection/classification requirements.

• Builds IA into systems deployed to operational environments.

• Assists architects and systems developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application of Agency security policy and enterprise solutions.

• Enforce the design and implementation of trusted relations among external systems and architectures. Assesses and mitigates system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle.

• Contributes to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations.

• Reviews certification and accreditation (C&A) documentation, providing feedback on completeness and compliance of its content.

• Applies system security engineering expertise in one or more of the following to : system security design process; engineering life cycle; information domain; cross domain solutions; commercial off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf cryptography; identification; authentication; and authorization; system integration; risk management; intrusion detection; contingency planning; incident handling; configuration control; change management; auditing; certification and accreditation process; principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, availability, and access control); and security testing.
• Support security authorization activities in compliance with NSA/CSS Information System Certification and Accreditation Process (NISCAP) and DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF), the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) process, and prescribed NSA/CSS business processes for security engineering.
• Participate as a security engineering representative on engineering teams for the design, development, implementation and/or integration of secure networking, computing, and enclave environments.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Due to the nature of this position and the information that employees will be required to access, U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as an ISSE on programs and contractsof similar scope, type, and complexity is required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• DoD 8570.01-M compliance with IASAE Level 2 is required. CISSP Certification is required.

• Required Security Clearance: TS/SCI with Counterintelligence Polygraph.

Desired Skills:

• TS/SCI with Full-scope polygraph is desired.