Information Security Engineer
Location
Reston, VA | United States
Job description
GENERAL DUTIES:
- The Information Assurance/Security Engineer will provide security engineering and information assurance support to the Government’s Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process to maintain Authority to Operate (ATO) and Authority to Connect (ATC) for mission applications and services.
- Designs, develops, monitors and documents security controls, security testing, security reporting, and plan of actions and milestones (POA&Ms) throughout systems and application lifecycles in support of mission systems.
- Provides security engineering design inputs, security design reviews, and security best practices as part of technical and change requests.
- Configures and validates secure systems, physical controls, and tests security products and systems to detect security weaknesses.
- Maintains XACTA security records for supported systems.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering, or similar technical field (additional 4 years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree)
- Certification: Requires 8570 compliance (IAT Level 2) such as CompTIA Security +
- Ideal candidates have 6 years of hands-on experience and expertise in one or more of the following:
- Support to vulnerability management, patching, information assurance and/or ATO process for Classified DoD or IC environments.
- Experience documenting and assessing security controls in CentOS/RHEL Linux Systems, Cisco Networks, VDI and/or Virtual server hosting environments.
- Experience supporting, securing and delivering hardware and software updates and enhancements through testing, security assessment and authorization, and production readiness reviews.
- Demonstrated documentation writing for security plans, tests, and reports.
- Must demonstrate strong teamwork, communication (both verbal and written), and presentation skills.
- Must demonstrate strong initiative to accept new technical challenges in complex security engineering assignments
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification(s)
- Desired Experience with one or more of the following:
- DoD or Intelligence Community IT and Application service delivery.
- Experience supporting full lifecycle A&A process for classified DoD or IC infrastructure and application service delivery.
- Experience managing ATO process through XACTA tool.
- Experience working with Special Access Programs (SAP)
- Hands-on experience with Agile software development
- Hands-on Experience with VDI hosting and virtualization with VMWare and/or Nutanix
- Experience deploying and supporting NiFi data flows
- Experience deploying and supporting Apache Tomcat webservices
- Experience working with cross-domain solutions
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