Cybersecurity Systems Engineer-045 Level 4

Cybersecurity Systems Engineer

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.

LEVEL 4:

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.

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.

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.

Education and Experience:

• HS/GED + 12 years

• Associates Degree + 10 years

• Bachelor's Degree + 8 years

• Master's Degree + 6 years

• PhD + 4 years

Oracle DBA Functional responsibilities:

• Perform  regular maintenance on Oracle database based infrastructure servers.  (e.g. Patching, vulnerability resolution and compliance checking)

• Create and maintain custom scripts to capture data, monitor for agents anomalies, and run required systems checks. Oracle.

• Perform  routine Oracle database maintenance, e.g backups, patches, log file  monitoring, daily database partition creation, SANS storage space, etc.

• Perform routine tool maintenance.

• Work with tool vendor to resolve system problems.

• May be required to create scripts beyond the capabilities of the COTS application.

• Proactively  monitor Windows/Linux system performance and improve system  architecture to maximize performance and eliminate potential problems.

• Plan, monitor, and implement backup and recovery of database solutions.

• Troubleshoot and/or provide technical support in the event of an issue.

• Work  closely with vendors, team lead, technical lead,  databasearchitects/administrators, other systems engineers,  project/program managers, and government customers to develop,  implement, maintain and upgrade IT infrastructure.

• Publish standards, policies, and procedures, and work with development staff to standardize environment and improve efficiency.

• Support  mission-focused infrastructure to ensure performance and availability  of system andenvironment Schedule and coordinate system maintenance  activities to reduce impact to production environment

• Oracle  Database Administrator (DBA) with a systems background to include  systems engineering and light project management experience

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.

Security Clearance:

• TS/SCI with CI poly