Senior Cyber Engineer

About the role

SAIC is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to support the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) Information Technology Programs for the Department of the Navy. This initiative leverages advanced technologies and integrates critical defense systems to optimize ship maintenance through IT applications, systems, and training, ensuring sustained mission success in naval ship maintenance operations.

Responsibilities

• Architects, plans, configures, deploys, maintains, and upgrades COTS/GOTS and custom toolsets to address vulnerabilities and/or implement security controls.
• Applies a combination of expert engineering knowledge of enterprise IT and security solutions to design, develop, and/or implement solutions to ensure they are consistent with enterprise architecture security policies and support full spectrum military cyberspace operations.
• Designs, tests, and implements secure operating systems, networks, security monitoring, tuning and management of IT security systems and applications, incident response, digital forensics, loss prevention, and eDiscovery actions.
• Includes security control design and solution planning at the system, mission, and enterprise level, security-in-depth/defense-in-depth, and other related IAM/ISSO/ISSE support functions.
• Involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access.
• Researches and evaluates cyber capabilities and new security tools and products against operational requirements and introduces them to the enterprise in alignment with IT security strategy, and troubleshoots and problem solves technical and non-technical issues.
• Provides recommendations for the development of formal policies and procedures to facilitate the protection of Government sensitive unclassified and classified information and the security of the various PSNS and IMF information systems and networks.
• Reviews PNSY, NAVSEA, DoD, and DoN policies, procedures, and guidelines and provides recommendations to support the creation and updating of appropriate policy documents for implementation.
• Aids in the development of policies and procedures for implementation and provides support in implementing these mechanisms and processes.
• Supports Planning, Analysis, Reporting, and Inspections.
• Supports Policy development, Training, Records Management, Cybersecurity Workforce (CSWF) management, Programs, Accounts, Spills.
• Supports RMF activities.
• Supports security Scans, Vulnerability Management (VM), Incident Response, o Host-Based Security Systems (HBSS), Security Information Event Management (SIEM), and NNPP.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Networks & Cybersecurity (or related field of study) or additional years of experience considered in lieu of degree.
• Expertise: Ten (10+) years of experience in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, and network security, specializing in system administration, risk management, and incident response.
• Skills: Skilled in designing, implementing, and managing secure infrastructure solutions, as well as conducting vulnerability assessments using tools such as Splunk, Kibana, Qualys, and Tenable. Extensive background in administering and securing networks, including configuring firewalls, endpoint protection policies, and troubleshooting complex system and network issues. Extensive background in storage architecture, including NetApp and Pure Storage. Proficient in compliance and risk management tasks, ensuring adherence to RMF, STIGs, and DoD cybersecurity standards. Expertise in vulnerability scanning with ACAS and Nessus, as well as coordinating system patches and updates.
• Certification: Must be DoD 8570 compliant in one or more of the following CompTIA CASP+CE, Security+CE, Network+CE, CYSA+, GCIH, GIAC , or CEH.
• Nice to Have/Desired: Certified in AWS, AWS CCP, EC-Council, or Scrum.

Pay

The target salary range for this position is $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.