System Security Engineer (SSE)

Essential Job Functions

• Ensure the development and delivery of cybersecurity and program protection capability for DoD acquisition programs through the implementation of an approach based on cost, schedule, performance, and risk.
• Lead the evaluation and balancing of security contributions to produce a coherent security capability across the technology system and the DoD acquisition program, integrating all aspects of system security.
• Assist in conducting trade-off analyses and integrate contributions from system security engineering disciplines such as anti-tamper, cybersecurity, exportability features, hardware assurance, software assurance, supply chain risk management, and security specialties (personnel security, industrial security, physical security, etc.).
• Focus on Cyber survivability to assess the ability of the system to perform its mission and functions, in the face of cyber-attack, by the anticipated adversaries, and to operate effectively in a cyber-contested environment.
• Author and update the program protection plan (PPP) document.

Some Of The Specific Tasks

• Provide a program protection assessment of requirements documents to program management.
• Identify critical program information (CPI) including inherited designated science and technology information.
• Determine vulnerabilities and threats to CPI.
• Identify personnel required to fulfill all pertinent program protection roles to engineering and program management.
• Perform risk analysis.
• Recommend appropriate security controls for an acquisition program.
• Provide technical support to register an acquisition program with the applicable component(s) cybersecurity program.
• Document program protection planning in the systems engineering plan (SEP), PPP, and system security plan (SSP).

Required Skills

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
• Bachelor Degree in an engineering discipline or Cybersecurity, plus at least 12 years’ experience, with at least 5 of those being specifically focused on cybersecurity.
• Understanding of systems engineering processes.
• Experience or training in some or all of the following: supply chain risk management, anti-tamper, SBOMs, CPI, criticality analysis, and PPPs.
• Self-starter with the ability to work without direct supervision.
• Ability to work within a team context.
• Ability to daily provide high quality support and customer service to the Government customer in a high visibility position.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Strong interpersonal abilities, including ability to tactfully negotiate resolution to competing programmatic demands and requirements.
• Strong customer service mentality.

Desired Skills

• CISSP-ISSEP certification.
• Bachelor Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering.
• 20+ years of experience working in the arena of cybersecurity.
• Experience mitigating cyber and program risk through supply chain management.
• Familiarity with AR70-77 and NIST 800.160 pertaining to "Technology and Program Protection."
• Experience working in systems engineering.