Cleared Cyber Security Engineer - On-Site

JOB TITLE : Technical lead Cyber Engineer

RATE RANGE : $115.00-120 / hr W2

LOCATION : Aurora, Colorado (On-Site)

JOB# : 14214857

DURATION : Initial 1-Year Contract, possible contract to hire

Clearance Requirement : Must be a US Citizen with an active DOD Secret clearance. Top Secret / SCI Clearance is preferred

REQUIRED SKILLS :

• Strong understanding of cyber architecture design principles and governance and the ability to create an architectural vision, communicate the vision, and map out a plan to execute towards the vision
• Prior experience developing requirements, defining system interfaces, and supporting system level integration to include experience with software architecture tools and techniques and with a variety of messaging and communication protocols and supporting global mission systems
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills; ability to decompose, document, and communicate architecture rationale, approach, design and governance to include strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Deep technical knowledge of the IT Development stack and DEVOPS

Job Summary :

• Technical Lead / Cyber Architect Cyber Security Engineer to join the Cyber Security Engineering team for a dynamic, high-profile program located in Aurora, CO.
• Will serve as a tech lead, responsible for assisting in the development and management of the cyber system / application architecture and may be required to provide guidance to program-level software / hardware architects.
• This person may also serve as a direct interface during important reviews, briefings, and technical exchange / demos.
• Communication and collaboration with the customer as well as with other engineering disciplines is required to ensure the program-level chief engineers and architectures support the program's needs.
• The person in this role will lead the analysis of issues that directly affect the system.
• The successful candidate will have a security conscious approach to take into consideration the systems level effect to resolving complex programs and the ability to convince leadership that the proposed solution is best for the mission (including program cost and schedule as well as the technical solution).
• The individual will work with the program and customer in the development of CONOPS for new systems, providing strategic input and planning for the system, applications, architecture and design in a dynamic, agile development environment.
• He / She will assist in the tracking of key roadmaps and deliverables.

The position requires secure software cybersecurity expertise, with containerization experience preferred, as well as guiding the secure implementation of databases.

This position requires work on-site at Aurora campus and some work will be performed at the customer location in Boulder.

The successful candidate is expected to have proven experience implementing secure coding standards, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide (ASD STIG), database security, python coding, and experience with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process and artifact development leading to a successful Authorization to Operate (ATO).

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD) pipeline and DevSecOps experience is highly desired; as is the ability to effectively perform multi-level analysis on disparate data sets, highlighting trends and developing action plans to remediate findings or program objectives, ensuring cyber is at the forefront in development.

Basic Qualifications :

• Strong understanding of cyber architecture design principles and governance and the ability to create an architectural vision, communicate the vision, and map out a plan to execute towards the vision
• Prior experience developing requirements, defining system interfaces, and supporting system level integration to include experience with software architecture tools and techniques and with a variety of messaging and communication protocols and supporting global mission systems
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills; ability to decompose, document, and communicate architecture rationale, approach, design and governance to include strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Deep technical knowledge of the IT Development stack and DEVOPS Pipeline for production systems running on the infrastructure and possess an understanding of Digital Engineering principles including Model Based System Engineering and DevOps / DevSecOps pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate the customer, all levels of management and with individual contributors on the team to include the ability to work across disciplines to find balanced approaches to technical issues

Preferred Qualifications :

• Prior experience architecting, designing, developing, and testing systems
• Prior experience porting existing software to new platforms and architectures
• Experience with Agile Development Methodologies
• Experience with cyber security engineering projects and programs for U.S. Government clients
• Understanding of security design concepts with ability to develop solutions to moderately complex IS compliance and security problems
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, HW and SW life-cycle management, & engineering change proposal processes
• Ability to establish tasks and objectives and ensure the entire team understands and can work towards the vision and objectives
• Hands-on technical experience with documented skills and experience in the following areas : Linux system administration, COTS and FOSS patch management / deployment experience
• Typically requires a minimum of Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and 10+ years of engineering experience in cyber security
• Experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF), NIST 800-37, Continuous Monitoring IAW NIST 800-137, Patching IAW NIST 800-40, NIST 800-53 and CNSSI 1253
• Experience with vulnerability assessment and analysis experience utilizing Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) and DISA STIGs
• Develop and augment automation through scripting or programming and collaborating w / teams for security functionality to meet cyber requirements
• Required Education and Certifications :
• Required Security Certification in accordance with DoD 8570.01 IAT-II for a Linux environment (e.g., Security+ CE and Linux OS Certification);
• Master of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mathematics or STEM related field.
• Scrum Master Certification
• Languages, Tools, Methodologies, Applications include :
• Angular BitBucket GITHub Junit RedHat Ansible Tower C / C++ Gradle Linux SecDevOps API CloudWatch Hibernete Maven SpringMVCC Artifactory CSS HTML Mongo Swagger AWS Suite Eclipse Java Node.

js TomCat Azure ELK Stack JavaScript Powershell Unix Bash GIT Jenkins Python VMWare

NOTE : Obtaining Security+ certification is required at start

Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans / Disabled

• While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to : job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations.
• Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life / short term disability / whole life / term life / accident and critical illness coverage;

employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.

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