Cybersecurity System Engineer Level 4 054

Cybersecurity Systems Engineer Level 4:

Responsible for strengthening the defensive posture and cyber defense  operational readiness of an IT Enterprise, our Enterprise Cyber Network  Defense (ECND) program defends and protects Government assets from  external Cyber Security attacks and Insider Threats that can potentially  cause or create data, systems, networks, and personnel vulnerabilities

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.

HBSS administrator requirements:

• Manage the functionality and efficiency of a group of computers running on one or more operating systems.

• Maintain the integrity and security of servers and systems.

• Implement, operate, and maintain network security devices

• Work with security engineering team to integrate new capabilities, plan lifecycle replacements, and provide input into the security architecture roadmaps

• Create programmatic documentation, standard operating procedures and granular process checklists

• Sets up administrator and service accounts

• Maintain system documentation

• Interact with users and evaluates vendor products.

• Make recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation and provides backup recovery

• Develop and monitor policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources

• Develop and implement testing strategies and document results

• Provides guidance and work leadership to less-experienced staff members

• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technologies as assigned.

• Participates in special projects as required.

Education and Experience:

• HS/GED + 12 years

• Associates Degree + 10 years

• Bachelor’s Degree + 8 years

• Master’s Degree + 6 years

• PhD + 4 years

Security Clearance:

• TS/SCI with CI poly