Cyber Systems Engineer 3

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is seeking a Cyber Systems Engineer - Level 5 to join our team at our facility in Aurora, Colorado. 

Job Responsibilities

• Support the architecture and design of baked in cybersecurity requirements and protections 

• Provide cybersecurity system engineering implementation guidance and oversight to technical teams/implementers 

• Review and Assess stakeholder security objectives, protection needs and concerns, security requirements, and associated verification/validation methods 

• Provide security considerations to inform systems engineering efforts with the objective to reduce errors, flaws, and weakness that may constitute security vulnerability leading to unacceptable asset loss and consequences 

• Identify, quantify, and evaluate the costs/benefits of security functions and considerations to inform analysis of alternatives, engineering trade-offs, and risk treatment decisions 

• Author, support and maintain cybersecurity program documentation & RMF package documentation:  Cybersecurity Strategies, System Security Plans, Continuous Monitoring Plans, Risk Assessment Report, Security Control Traceability Matrix, Plan Of Actions & Milestones, etc. 
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree and 12 years of relevant experience; 10 years with a Master''s; 8 years with a PhD. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Candidate must have active/current Top Secret/SCI clearance with adjudicated Full Scope Polygraph at time of application
• Direct experience developing RMF assessment and authorization documentation 
• Direct experience with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) 
• Experience of RMF (NIST 800-37) accreditation functions, including documentation, scanning, assessment, Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM) management, and all steps of the RMF process 
• Direct experience assessing the Program''s system security posture in compliance with customer requirements and directives.  
• Experience with requirements development from control listings  
• Experience with integrating Cyber Systems Engineering requirements with Program System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) initiatives 
• Experience adjusting commercial security methodologies and technologies within sensitive and proprietary customer environments in accordance with NIST 800-53 
• Ability to apply analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to issues or studies concerning the efficiency and effectiveness of Cybersecurity implementation 
• Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate with both with internal teams, internal management and external customers 
• Experience with Department of War (DoW)/Intelligence Community (IC) System Security Engineering activities  
• Possession of Security Certification or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise with all aspects of Systems Security Engineering as defined in NIST SP 800-160 
• System security architecture experience 
• Experience working with DOORS and CAMEO 
• Security related tool suites in DevSecOps pipelines 
• Experience in configuring and deploying Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) 
• Experience in Communications Security (COMSEC) 
• Experience working on a multidisciplinary team and developing technical proposals 

Experience working in an Agile execution framework 

Salary : $110 - $120