System Security Engineer

Title: System Security Engineer (SSE)

Location: onsite 5 days a week in Warren, Michigan

Duration: 9-month contract to hire

Salary upon conversion: Dependent on years of experience with LCATs

Must be able to obtain DoD secret clearance

Must Haves:

• 10 years of experience within either a System Engineer or Cybersecurity background (Open to a strong system engineer who is open to learning the Cybersecurity side)
• Strong understanding of systems engineering processes
• Experience performing vulnerability / risk assessments
• Mitigating cyber/program risks through supply chain management
• Bachelors Degree in an Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance

Plusses:

• Program Protection Plan experience
• Active Secret Clearance
• Familiar with AR70-77
• CISSP-ISSEP Certifications

Day to Day:

Insight Global is looking for a System Security Engineer for one of our largest defense clients out of Warren, MI that will be fully onsite. This person will be responsbile for ensuring 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. They will lead the evaluation and balancing of security contributions to produce a coherent security capability across the technology system and the DoD acquisition program, in order to integrate all aspects of system security. This person will also assist in conducting trade-off analyses and will 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.). There will be a 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. Other responsbilites include:

• Provide a program protection assessment of requirements documents to program management
• Identify critical program information (CPI) including inherited designated science and technology information
• Determine the threat to CPI
• Identify personnel required to fulfill all pertinent program protection roles to engineering and program management
• Identify vulnerabilities to CPI
• 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)

$40/hr to $60/hr : Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education. Benefit packages while on contract for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.