Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer - (CIS0003NT) 

Your Impact:

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your Impact: . We are looking to hire a Senior System Engineer to support a full range of cyber security services on a long-term contract in Washington DC. The position is full time/permanent and will support a US Government civilian agency. The position is available immediately upon finding a qualified candidate with the appropriate background clearance. This position supports a government client and is fully a remote position

 

Responsibilities: 

·        Serving as a technical advisor and consultant to colleagues support our government customer leadership on the implementation of the Department's information systems security policy and guidelines.

·        Assisting government leadership in making integration decisions, analyzing design constraints and trade-offs in system and security design, and ensuring integrity of customers mission objectives, while protecting customer assets from cyber threats and vulnerabilities.

·        Advocating for, influencing and/or defending policy and program decisions among Department leaders and high-ranking officials across government and develop novel solutions that impact matters of national significance related to the customer’s Cybersecurity mission.

·        Collaborating with internal and external customer stakeholders and national experts to budget for, architect, and design enterprise cybersecurity solutions.

·        Reviewing security and privacy requirements to isolate system needs and translating those requirements into secure technical and operational specifications.

·        Conducting and evaluating design reviews and conducting security risk assessments, gap analyses, and business impact analyses to detect system weaknesses, identifying the depth and breadth of needed security controls, and making targeted recommendations to address issues and mitigate risks.

·        Designing and evaluating networks that are secure from known and perceived methods of cyber-attack on all elements including but not limited to wired and wireless elements, Cloud-based, and virtual environments, incorporating secure controls.

·        Establishing defense in-depth mechanisms to detect, deflect, or mitigate cyber-attacks on networks and communications systems and structures.

·        Designing and evaluating security solutions

·        Assisting with the analyzing software risks, understanding likely points of attack, and determining how software will mitigate potential attacks.

·        Assisting with the review of systemic threats in deployment environments and vulnerabilities of applications and identifying application vulnerabilities, taking into consideration security controls, recovery strategies, contingency plans, and testing and evaluation.

·        Executing and/or assisting development based on secure design specifications, utilizing secure tools and methodologies.

·        Tracking and correcting system defects through testing and implementation phases.

·        Providing oversight of systems testing and evaluation and test case development and mapping.

·        Developing objectives and criteria for testing programs. • Assisting with testing frameworks and contingency plans.

·        Develop system concepts and work on the capabilities phases of the systems development lifecycle

·        Translate technology and environmental conditions (e.g., laws, regulations, policies and technical standards) into system and security designs and processes.

·        Provide recommendations for investment standards and policies that drive how controls will be applied across the organization

·        Support customer’s needs with Executive orders such as 14028

 

Here's What You'll Need:

 

Requirements:

·        Must be a U.S. Citizen clearable to Public Trust 6C

·        Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree; Master’s preferred; other work experience and certifications considered in lieu of degree requirements

·        5+ years establishing, managing and maturing security and compliance programs in federal and private sector focused on delivering complex Security IT solutions, resolving business challenges through technical implementation

·        5+ years of experience with cloud platforms and services, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

·        5+ years of experience with governance, risk assessment and compliance for FISMA, FedRAMP, and NIST SP 800 series including NIST SP 800-37 and NIST SP 800-53, system security plans, security and privacy controls, POA&M management, assessment and authorization (A&A), Authority To Operate (ATO) and continuous monitoring processes

·        Experience with the protection of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and hybrid multi-cloud environments with a broad set of security technologies and processes with application security, data security, network security, encryption, key management, identity and access management, cloud access service brokering, zero trust networking

·        Experience with DHS CISA Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), and Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) 3.0 Reference Architecture

·        Understanding of Agile and DevSecOps industry standard practices including security assessments of code through the Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline • Understanding of containerization and serverless technologies

·        Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.

·        Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen clearable to Public Trust 6C

Minimum Education: Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree; Master’s preferred; other work experience and certifications considered in lieu of degree requirements

Minimum Years of Experience: 5+ years of experience

Required Certifications: ITIL 4 Foundation Certified or willing to complete one year from hire

Preferred:

·        Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

·        Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

·        Experience with Okta Multi-factor Authentication services

·        Microsoft Authentication and Identity Management technologies (EDR XDR)

·        MCSE, MCITP, MCTS and/or SANS Certification

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Primary Location

: United States-District of Columbia-Washington-20388-WDC0

Job Posting

: Jun 4, 2025, 1:52:47 AM

Job

: Systems

Organization

: CMS

Job Type

: ExperiencedJob Classification: Fulltime-Regular

Work Locations

: 20388-WDC0 Patriots Plaza I 395 E Street SW Washington 20024Capabilities: Intelligence