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Location

Annapolis Junction, MD | United States

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Job description

CyberTrend’s leadership has 40 years of experience in the industry, and the company continues to serve as a technology leader on many defense projects and programs. Formed in 2010, CyberTrend has long-standing partnerships and clients, including partners like AWS and IBM, government agencies, the intelligence community, and defense contractors. We provide talented and exceptionally qualified IT, architectural, system, and software engineering personnel.

Requires TS/SCI with Poly Clearance

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 Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) process, the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) process, and prescribed NSA/CSS business processes for security engineering. 

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. DoD 8570.01-M compliance with IASAE Level 2 is required CISSP Certification is required. Four (4) years of ISSE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Qualifications
- Participate as a security engineering representative on engineering teams for the design, development, implementation and/or integration of secure networking, computing, and enclave environments 
- Participate as a security engineering representative on engineering teams for the design, development, implementation and/or integration of IA architectures, systems, or system components 
- Participate as the primary security engineering representative on engineering teams for the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and/or integration of secure networking, computing, and enclave environments 
-Participate as the primary security engineering representative on engineering teams for the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and/or integration of IA architectures, systems, or system components 
-Support the Government in the enforcement of the design and implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures 
- Apply knowledge of IA policy, procedures, and workforce structure to design, develop, and implement secure networking, computing, and enclave environments 
-Support security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management 
-Identify overall security requirements for the proper handling of Government data 
- Interact with the customer and other project team members 
- Perform system or network designs that encompass multiple enclaves, to include those with differing data protection/classification requirements 
-Provide security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management 
- Recommend system-level solutions to resolve security requirements 
-Support the Government in the enforcement of the design and implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures Benefits:

• Generous and competitive paid time off, scaled based on time in service, plus eleven paid annual holidays.
• CyberTrend pays 100% of the cost for the following benefits for its full-time employees: including medical (base plan), dental, vision, disability, life, EAP, and more.
• CyberTrend contributes 10% of your monthly gross salary to a SEP-IRA account. This retirement plan is non-contributory for the employee, has no vesting period, and is 100% owned and managed by the employee.
• Educational assistance up to $5,250 annually for work-related acitivies upon prior approval
• Training assistance up to $3,000 annually for work-related activities upon prior approval

CyberTrend provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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