Information Systems Security Engineer 2

Job Description:

• The Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) shall perform, or review, 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.
• 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.
• Supports the building of security architectures.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• Fourteen (14) years experience as an ISSE on programs and contracts of 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.
  • Four (4) years of ISSE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• DoD 8570.01-M compliance with IASAE Level 2 is required CISSP Certification is required.
• Experience to manually review network diagrams, network device configurations, termination points for VPNs and working knowledge of software TLS security.
• Maintain flexible and non-traditional Risk Management Framework (RMF) review of unclassified/classified networks to assess and prescribe countermeasures for secure communications.
• Familiar with applying different security standards and frameworks.
• Ability to create security assessment reports, adhoc technical/administrative tasks, keen writing skills and leadership qualities.
• Strong crypto, network and cloud computing background.

Clearance

• Active TS/SCI Full Scope Clearance required.

TS/SCI with FS Polygraph