Cyber Security Project Engineer

Residency Status: ALL CANDIDATES MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN

Security Clearance: ALL Candidates MUST currently Possess an Active TS/SCI w/FS polygraph for consideration of this position.

Time Type: Full-Time, Daytime Schedule – 100% onsite

Company Benefits: Yes

Salary Range: $140k to $180k - The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

**Application Note: All candidates will have to complete a matrix template showing experience for each task on the job description.**

Close Date: 9/26/25

Company Overview

NAOVI (Novel Applications, Inc.) is a premier technology services company that provides solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Information Management and Systems Integration. NAOVI is a business that combines experience, creativity, flexibility, pragmatism, and cost-effective solutions in order to deliver measurable business value to our clients.

Headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, NAOVI employs engineers, analysts, IT specialists and other professionals who strive to be the best at everything they do.

NAOVI is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. Visit our company website at www.novelapplications.com to review and apply for our current openings.

Job Description

NAOVI has a career opening for a Cyber Security Project Engineer and it's team members will be responsible for managing the office system assessment and authorization processes as well as security engineering expertise in the systems development lifecycle in advancing new cyber security utilities to fruition that enable threat awareness, monitoring of cyber threats, and other forward thinking enablement activities in support of the agency's strategic goals.

Required Technologies/Tools

• Demonstrated experience in cyber security, InfoSec, security engineering, or network engineering.
• Demonstrated experience with vulnerability scanning tools.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting test results.
• Demonstrated experience assessing systems against information assurance policies and regulations.
• Demonstrated experience communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and performing security testing.
• Demonstrated experience developing risk assessment and certification reports.
• Demonstrated experience leading security accreditation efforts for enterprise systems.
• Demonstrated experience recommending mitigating countermeasures to identify threats, vulnerabilities, or shortfalls.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux operating system.
• Demonstrated experience writing and reviewing documents such as requirements specifications, system architecture, design documents, test plans, or security plans.
• Demonstrated experience decomposing functional requirements into technical requirements.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing existing systems and identifying necessary corrective actions and improvements.
• Demonstrated experience preparing program documentation such as CONOPS, SSP, and preparing materials to support system accreditation.
• Security Clearance: Active TSSCI w/FS polygraph. No clearance sponsorship for this position.
  
  

Desired Technologies/Tools

• Demonstrated experience with creating and maintaining integrated master schedules.
• Demonstrated experience with offensive security practices.
• Demonstrated experience explaining protocols, technical procedures and processes clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  
  

Active Relevant Certifications

• Relevant certifications
  
  

Other Relevant Technologies/Tools

• Experience assisting the agency with shepherding multiple IT systems through the Assessment and Accreditation (A&A) processes.
• Experience assisting with continuous monitoring of IT systems that are required to sustain accreditation of these systems.
• Experience being knowledgeable in Networking, Linux, Windows, Log analysis, Malware detection and mitigations, and the A&A process of systems.
• Experience collaborating with agency personnel to improve agency requested metrics.
• Experience in providing responses to questions from system security managers.
• Experience in creating A&A documentation such as System Security Plans (SSP) and Continuous Monitoring plans.
• Experience identifying countermeasures to the latest IT threats.
• Experience identifying potential exploitation vulnerabilities and proposing mitigation approaches for ongoing IT operations.
• Experience performing configurations of security related systems.
• Experience utilizing various security tools to perform log analysis, security incident response, vulnerability scanning, and automation of repetitive tasking’s.
• Experience decomposing government requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience participating in and briefing at information systems architectural boards at the Group level.
• Experience working in a 24-hour, 7 day (on-call rotation) a week environment providing in-depth Tier 2 and Tier 3 level support and problem resolution for technology products and applications.
• Experience coordinating engineering projects including performing technical risk assessments, de-conflicting implementations, and resolving technical questions or conflicts.