Job Description

• Familiar with Zero Trust (ZT) architectures in addition to zero trust best practices.
• Familiar and experience with ZT vendor products and solutions such as SOAR, Identity, SIEM. Works with customers to plan and implement complex Zero Trust customer solutions.
• Serves as technical expert on executive-level project teams providing technical direction, interpretation, and alternatives. Expertise is in a particular area of Information Technology (e.g., Cybersecurity, Information Systems Architecture, Telecommunications Systems Design, Architecture, Implementation, Information Systems Integration, Software Development Methodologies, Security Engineering, Communications and Network Systems Management).
• Performs highly specialized and technical tasks associated with the most current and cutting-edge technologies.
• May serve as a technical consultant to a project or projects dealing with area of technical expertise.
• Coordinates with contract management and Government personnel to ensure the problems have been properly defined and the solutions satisfy customer needs.
• Performs complex system development, design, modeling, analysis, integration, and sustainment of systems for new or existing computer systems within an Enterprise.
• Developing and implementing testing strategies and documenting results.
• Providing system/equipment/specialized training and technical guidance.
• Serves as liaison with clients, participating in meetings to ensure client needs are met.
• Provides guidance and work leadership to less-experienced staff.
• Communicates with customers and teammates clearly and concisely.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned and may have supervisory responsibilities.
• Developing documentation on new or existing systems.
• Linux experience desired.

Standard Characteristics

• Perform, or review, technical security assessments of computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established IA standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies
• Validate and verify system security requirements definitions and analysis and establishes system security designs
• Design, develop, implement and/or integrate IA and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, and enclave environments to include those with multiple enclaves and with differing data protection/classification requirements
• Build IA into systems deployed to operational environments
• Assist architects and systems developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application security policy and enterprise solutions
• Support the building of security architectures
• Enforce the design and implementation of trusted relations among external systems and architectures
• Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle
• Contribute to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations
• Review certification and accreditation (C&A) documentation, providing feedback on completeness and compliance of its content
• Perform system installation, configuration maintenance, account maintenance, signature maintenance, patch management, and troubleshooting of operational IA and CND systems
• Apply system security engineering expertise in one or more of the following to: system security design process; engineering life cycle; information domain; cross domain solutions; commercial off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf cryptography; identification; authentication; and authorization; system integration; risk management; intrusion detection; contingency planning; incident handling; configuration control; change management; auditing; certification and accreditation process; principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, availability, and access control); and security testing.

​Skills and Tasks

• Exceptionally Complex, Inter-Discipline, Inter-Organizational.
• Can perform tasks of senior level technicians, specialists, and or managers not performed at Level 3 due to the size and/or complexity of the tasks.

Leadership/Management

• May work individually or as a key member of a senior leadership team.
• Oversees and monitors performance across several disciplines, and when required, takes steps to resolve issues.

Guidance

• Provides expert guidance and direction to Government and Vendor senior level technicians and managers.
• Directs multiple contractor and subcontractor teams through to project completion.

Training and Certifications

• DoD 8570 compliance or information assurance certification commensurate with technical objectives and services required within the task order.
• Applicable software or hardware training and certifications commensurate with the technical objectives, services required, and IT environment specified within the task order.

Capabilities and additional Requirements

• In addition to Standard Characteristics of Labor Category, advocate and recommend system-level solutions to resolve security requirements.
• Monitors and suggests improvement to IA policy.
• Interact with customers, IT staff, and high-level corporate officers to define and achieve required IA objectives.
• Provide the Government assistance to ensure that the architecture and design of information systems are functional and secure, including program of record systems and special purpose environments with platform IT interconnectivity.
• Provide expert guidance and work product evaluation to one or more security engineers that support Engineering teams for the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and/or integration of secure networking, computing, and enclave environments.

​Education and Experience

• HS/GED 12 years
• Associates Degree 10 years
• Bachelor’s Degree 8 years
• Master’s Degree 6 years
• PhD 4 years