Information System Security Engineer

At Farfield, we are committed to delivering trusted expertise to our government clients. As we grow, our focus is on increasing opportunities for you to grow with us while still delivering the same excellence customers have grown to expect from us.

We continually evaluate our environment to provide a place where your career is packed with opportunities to grow and you have the ability to demonstrate your passion to our customers.

We focus on building a team where each employee is a valued member.

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Farfield provides support to multiple agencies across the United States Government in many locations. That means many different opportunities to follow your career path without changing companies every few years.

Employee driven...customer focused. We build, operate, and secure networks and infrastructure.

Requires a Top Secret / SCI clearance with a polygraph and U.S. Citizenship

• Participate as a security engineering representative on engineering teams for the design, development, implementation, and / or integration of secure networking, computing, and enclave environments.
• Develops and maintains system security certification and accreditation services for our Information Technology (IT) Refresh and Reset Program in accordance with contractual requirements.

Reviews and evaluates complex customer security issues and implements corrective actions as needed. Interfaces with customers, various locations, and vendors to resolve security problems and provide information on containment or resolution.

• Ensures that problems have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user's requirements.
• Develops and maintains Splunk dashboards and possible back-end Splunk tie into other tools and services.
• Advises on best practices of design, development, and continuous monitoring of an information system.
• Advises on vulnerability management and scanning practices.
• Apply knowledge of Information Assurance policies, procedures, and workforce structures to design, develop, and implement secure networking, computing, and enclave environments.
• Interact with the Information Community (IC) customers and other project team members to support the customer in the enforcement of security designs of systems and architectures.
• Support security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management using the Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Identify overall security requirements for the proper handling and protection of government data.

Basic Qualifications :

• Seven (7) years of experience as ISSE.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical related discipline from an accredited college or university or equivalent is required.

Seven (7) years of additional Information Technology or engineering experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.

• Experience in Security Solutioning in a customer service arena.
• Cyber and / or IT certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), or CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) for DoD 8570 compliance is required.
• Expertise providing strong written and verbal communication conveying solutions and best practices required.

Physical Requirements :

• Ability to handle stress & work under pressure.
• Ability to use MS Office.
• Analytical or critical thinking skills.
• Interpersonal & people skills.
• Move about freely in a lab setting.
• Speaking.
• Repetitive motions.
• Working with data.
• Working with machine operations.
• Working with numbers or figures.

Farfield Systems will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants who are unable to utilize our online application system due to a disability.

Please send your request to [email protected] or call us for assistance at 410-874-9363.

Farfield Systems is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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