Lead Cybersecurity Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver innovative and secure architectures, solutions and strategies for enterprise IT and the cloud for government customers
• Provide recommendations on ensuring systems are specified, designed, developed, implemented, integrated, and sustained to meet security, resiliency, and safety needs, goals and objectives
• Research and develop unique, cutting-edge technical capabilities and processes for understanding, assessing, and analyzing system and technology resilience and security
• Collaborate with senior government officials, providing technical and strategic advice to cyber challenges identified by the government
• Apply knowledge of network architectures, security technologies, zero trust and cyber threats to provide customers the ability to protect, detect, and respond to cyber-attacks directed against customer systems
• Leverage your vision and expertise to advance the state of the art in the use of AI/ML and zero trust to improve the security posture of government systems.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; 6 years of related experience with a Master’s degree; or 3 years of related experience with a PhD; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• Advanced ability to architect secure solutions at the enterprise level and to apply zero trust principles to the architecture of complex systems
• Expertise applying security controls and best practices for network security, identity and access management, application security, data protection, and endpoint security
• Knowledge of security logging, telemetry, analytics, and orchestration technologies and their application within enterprise security architectures and zero trust
• Experience creating security reference architectures, standards, and design patterns for enterprise use
• Familiarity with emerging security technologies and patterns
• Strong knowledge of common attack techniques and threat landscapes
• Experience with cybersecurity technologies and tools, trends, and emerging capabilities
• Ability to lead and work with others to solve challenging technical problems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences to include government senior executives
• Must possess a Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant professional certifications
• Understanding of security architecture frameworks and methodologies
• Experience conducting or consuming threat modeling and translating results into design requirements
• Experience with U.S. Government policy guidance, including NIST RMF, NIST CSF, DoD 8500, CNSSI Instructions, Cybersecurity Executive Orders, NIST SP 800 Series instructions, and NISPOM
• Recognized expertise in space systems, space and ground mission platforms, mission applications, and modeling & simulation
• Familiarity with digital modelling and leveraging functional network digital twins to the point accelerate cyber testing functions as early as possible in the acquisition lifecycle
• Experience in incorporating the digital models into the cyber exercises and test range environments
• Electronic Warfare & RF Engineering: Deep understanding of EW pillars: Electronic Attack (EA), Electronic Protection (EP), and Electronic Support (ES)
• Technical knowledge of network protocols (e.g., IEEE 802.11, tactical datalinks, cellular, custom military waveforms) and protocol stacks
• Understanding of vulnerability research, payload delivery mechanisms over RF mediums, and embedded systems exploitation