Summary
Senior Information Assurance Engineer
Hybrid Schedule: In person, in the Washington, DC office twice a pay period.
The Senior Information Assurance Engineer is responsible for the design, development, testing, and evaluation of information systems throughout the systems development life cycle.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate on cybersecurity designs to meet specific operational needs and environmental factors (e.g., access controls, automated applications, networked operations, high integrity and availability requirements).
- Design hardware, operating systems, and software applications to adequately address requirements.
- Develop detailed design documentation for component and interface specifications to support system design and development.
- Ensure design and development activities are properly documented (providing a functional description of implementation) and updated as necessary.
- Implement designs for new or existing system(s).
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- BS degree in Cybersecurity or a related discipline
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, testing, and implementing security systems within an organization's IT Network
- ISC(2) CISSP, ISC(2) CCSP, EC-Council CEH or equivalent certification
- Background check
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of the organization's enterprise information security architecture.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles and organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation).
- Knowledge of information security systems engineering principles (NIST SP 800-160).
- Knowledge of information technology (IT) security principles and methods (e.g., firewalls, demilitarized zones, encryption).
- Knowledge of the organization's evaluation and validation requirements.
- Knowledge of systems testing and evaluation methods.
- Knowledge of various types of computer architectures.
- Knowledge of secure configuration management techniques (e.g., Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), cybersecurity best practices).
- Knowledge of software development models (e.g., Waterfall Model, Spiral Model).
- Knowledge of software engineering.
- Knowledge of system design tools, methods, and techniques, including automated systems analysis and design tools.
- Knowledge of system life cycle management principles, including software security and usability.
- Knowledge of the systems engineering process.
- Knowledge of embedded systems.
- Skill in developing and applying security system access controls.
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