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Security Engineer

Afognak Native Corporation, Alutiiq LLC, and their subsidiaries

Security Engineer

Bethesda, MD
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    JOB DUTIES:

    • Serves as a leading technical SME for the department, establishing an understanding of organizational values and current and future technical needs of an organization of this size and complexity, developing long-term strategy and direction for the Build credibility for the organization with leading technical vendors and providers and bring innovation to the organization.
    • Develop market research results, white papers, and presentations for leadership regarding emerging technologies and alternative White-board partial or complete solutions as requested. Solutions should be comprehensive, including hardware, software, licensing, maintenance and support. 
    • Assists with the day-to-day managerial, operational, and tactical aspects of multiple or large-scale projects.
    • Utilizes processes, systems, tools, and organizational resources to initiate, plan, control, execute and close projects and programs associated with technology development and implementation.
    • Creates clear agreement as to services and service levels to be delivered to all stakeholders, including identifying and documenting acceptance criteria, anticipated benefits, and success. 
    • Implements engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures in accordance with organizational methodology to ensure profitable and successful execution and sustainment of
    • Proactively supports changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
    • Creates, compiles, reviews and submits high-level deliverables.
    • Creates and maintains reporting mechanisms to show the overall health of the technology project portfolio, including program and project status, issues and action items.
    • Understanding of data science and data processing.
    • Advanced understanding of the industry, market segment, and emerging technologies.
    • Strong management and leadership abilities.
    • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple tasks at once.
    • Ability to work well in an organization and coordinate across various groups.

    TASK AREA SPECIALIZATION:

    Provide the Cybersecurity Division with expert-level technical support in day-to-day operations, including:

    • Review regulatory security policies, as well as best practices, and develop the technical solution required in order to implement those requirements on servers, routers, firewalls and other LAN/WAN.
    • Provide system, network, security engineering expertise, and guidance for all aspects of information assurance, including those systems required to meet DoD regulations.
    • Ensure technical system documentation required for A&A packages are complete and clearly supports validation and ATO in accordance with system security
    • Work with IA artifacts and tooling to include vulnerability testing and related network/system test tools; eg. Retina, Nessus, STIG Compliance Checker, ACAS, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), and more.
    • Perform self-assessment and hardening of system servers, applying STIGs, SCAP and ACAS scans, and other Generate a Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) report and remediate findings.
    • Comprehensive understanding of DoD MHS services and programs, and other usability standards, as well as user interface design.
    • Comprehensive understanding of DoD/DHA IT Security and IA policies, directives, and publications; and shall maintain awareness of relevant cyber- related policy changes.
    • Comprehensive understanding of federal security regulatory requirements   and security frameworks, including RMF, NIST SP 800-series, FISMA, FIPS, FedRAMP,
    • Demonstrated experience using IA artifacts and tooling to including vulnerability testing and related network/system test tools, g. Retina, Nessus, STIG compliance checker, ACAS, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), and more.

    Required Skills

    REQUIREMENTS:

    • 7+ years of system architecture and engineering Preference is in a DoD space.
    • 3+ years of technical leadership experience
    • Four-year degree
    • Secret clearance required.
    • Must meet DoD 8570 requirements

     TASK AREA SPECIALIZATION:

    • Relevant experience must be supporting system security authorization processes under RMF and previous regulations.      
    • Hands-on experience with IA artifacts and security penetration tools.

     

    Required Experience

  • Qualifications

    REQUIREMENTS:

    • 7+ years of system architecture and engineering Preference is in a DoD space.
    • 3+ years of technical leadership experience
    • Four-year degree
    • Secret clearance required.
    • Must meet DoD 8570 requirements

     TASK AREA SPECIALIZATION:

    • Relevant experience must be supporting system security authorization processes under RMF and previous regulations.      
    • Hands-on experience with IA artifacts and security penetration tools.