Cybersecurity Engineer

Description

Leading with our people, Digital Consultants mission is to deliver the highest level of professional solutions while being a trusted partner and advisor to our customers. With a culture of practicality, opportunity, and creativity we remain dedicated to being honest, trustworthy, respectful, and ethical in everything we do. We are a certified SBA 8(a) small, disadvantaged business that supports multiple IT customers within the Federal, civilian and private sectors. Digital Consultants also offers our employees growth opportunities, competitive wages, and a full benefits package. Our founding principles, Fairness and Common Sense, make working here more than a job, it’s the Digital family.

Digital Consultants is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Engineer to provide cybersecurity support services in support of Counter-UAS and traditional Airspace Security networks and systems for a sponsor located in Washington, DC. We are looking for a skilled and motivated individual who is eager to enhance their technical expertise while ensuring the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of critical systems.

Duties to include: 

• Lead complex cybersecurity tasks to completion within scope and budget. 
• Prepare, implement, and ensure compliance with cybersecurity policy, to include Assessment and Authorization requirements. 
• Plan, implement, upgrade, and/or monitor cybersecurity measures to improve cyber defense and maintain a cyber-resilient network; assess cybersecurity vulnerabilities for risks and propose and implement remediation actions or risk mitigation strategies. 
• Ensure appropriate security controls are in place that will safeguard digital files and electronic infrastructure; and respond to computer security breaches to re-establish protections and make required reports. 
• Serves as a senior-level cybersecurity SME within the team. 
• Assume responsibility for contributing to work plan development, reaching project milestones. 
• Lead specific cybersecurity project tasks. 
• Conduct analysis of appropriate consulting tools to satisfy program requirements and create project deliverables. 
• Perform analyses and make diagnoses, as well as define symptoms and problems, and develop conclusions. 

Requirements

Education:

• Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer, Electrical, or Electronics Engineering, or Mathematics with a concentration in computer science or equivalent 
• Clearance: Top Secret/SCI 
• Certifications:
• IAT Level III Certification 

Experience: 

• Ten (10) years of experience preparing, implementing, and ensuring compliance with cybersecurity policy, to include Assessment and Authorization requirements.  
• Experience may include plan, implement, upgrade, and/or monitor cybersecurity measures to improve cyber defense and maintain a cyber-resilient network; assess cybersecurity vulnerabilities for risks and propose and implement remediation actions or risk mitigation strategies; ensure appropriate security controls are in place that will safeguard digital files and electronic infrastructure; and respond to computer security breaches to re-establish protections and make required reports. 

Digital Consultants, an inclusive and welcoming company, is fully committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, age (40 or older), disability, Veterans status or any other protected characteristic.

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