Cybersecurity SME (Platform Engineering – Senior)

Cybersecurity SME (Platform Engineering – Senior)

Clearance: Active TS/SCI

Location: Springfield, VA

Experience: At least 12 years of experience with 8 years of specialized experience

Position Overview:

This role serves as a Cybersecurity subject matter expert responsible for advising the government on the development and execution of the strategic and tactical cybersecurity program with a focus on the coordination and development of system security concepts, capabilities, and problem resolution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the implementation of technical capabilities that satisfy Intelligence Community Directive-503 (ICD-503) and the customers security requirements.
• Assist in the identification, development, and testing of automated cybersecurity capabilities.
• Receive, identify, and provide cybersecurity requirements and translate those requirements into secure technical solutions that can be understood by customers, adopters, implementers, and developers.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Assurance, or related discipline.
• Licenses/Certifications: Information Assurance System Architect and Engineer Level 1, or Information Assurance Technician (IAT I) certification, or Technical Level III Certification (as outlined by the DoDD 8140.01)
• Demonstrated experience engineering, acquiring, using and decommissioning cybersecurity tools in large enterprise projects and programs.
• Demonstrated experience and certification securing virtual systems, cloud computing/hybrid environments and data infrastructure in large enterprise environments.
• Experience implementing processes, standards, and tools within an organization based on Agile software development concepts and best practices such as DevSecOps
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences.

Desired:

• Demonstrated experience that shows ability to balance security compliance with program cost, schedule, performance, or mission needs.
• Demonstrated experience with network security architecture and systems security engineering concepts, including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g. application of defense-in-depth) and applying and incorporating security solutions into proposed information technologies.
• Demonstrated experience implementing security controls for Docker containers and Kubernetes based microservice architectures.
• Current DoD 8570/8140 cybersecurity certification and demonstrated experience developing and/or applying cybersecurity principles, policies, practices, standards, or controls.
• Demonstrated experience working on or with major defense acquisitions or large R&D programs.