Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) – Skill Level 2

About the role

The Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) will perform and review technical security assessments of computing environments to identify vulnerabilities, non-compliance with Cybersecurity standards, and recommend mitigation strategies. This role involves validating and verifying system security requirements, establishing system security designs, and designing, developing, implementing, or integrating Cybersecurity and security system components across various environments.

Responsibilities

• Validate and verify system security requirements
• Establish system security designs
• Design, develop, implement, evaluate, and integrate secure networking, computing, and enclave environments
• Build Cybersecurity into systems deployed to operational environments
• Support security architecture development
• Enforce trusted relationships among external systems
• Assess and mitigate security risks throughout the system development life cycle
• Contribute to security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities
• Review certification and accreditation documentation for completeness and compliance
• Support security authorization activities in compliance with NSA/CSS and NIST Risk Management Framework processes

Requirements

• Ability to participate as the primary security engineering representative on engineering teams supporting the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and integration of secure networking, computing, and enclave environments, including Cybersecurity architectures, systems, and system components
• Ability to apply knowledge of Cybersecurity policies, procedures, and workforce structure to design, develop, and implement secure networking, computing, and enclave environments
• Ability to interact with customers and other project team members to support coordinated security engineering activities and project execution
• Ability to support the Government in enforcing the design and implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures
• Ability to support and provide security planning, security assessment, risk analysis, and risk management activities across systems and networks
• Ability to identify overall security requirements for the proper handling of Government data and recommend system-level solutions to resolve identified security requirements
• Ability to perform system and network designs that encompass multiple enclaves, including environments with differing data protection and classification requirements
• Twelve years of experience as an Information Systems Security Engineer supporting programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity, including recent experience within the last five years with Cybersecurity principles and technologies such as access control, authorization, identification and authentication, public key infrastructure, and network and enterprise security architecture, or sixteen years of ISSE experience if no bachelor’s degree is held
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university, or four additional years of ISSE experience may be substituted for the degree, and must be DoD 8570 compliant with IASAE II
• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph

Benefits

At Kaizen Approach, we offer a competitive salary range, a robust benefits package, and a commitment to employee well-being through healthcare, financial and family support, retirement planning, and ongoing learning opportunities. We also provide 4 weeks of PTO, 11 holidays, a gifted 401k, profit sharing, and paid training.