Position Overview
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Cole Engineering Services, Inc (a By Light company) is hiring a Cyber Security Engineer 3 for a position providing support to DoD software application development activities through cybersecurity requirements definition, process enhancements, and application security testing activities.
Responsibilities
- Define cybersecurity requirements for software applications to meet program requirements and objectives.
- Provide recommendations to incorporate security engineering practices throughout the system development lifecycle.
- Perform assessments of cybersecurity requirement compliance using manual and automated software analysis tools and methods.
- Perform assessments using adversarial tools, techniques, and methods against network-enabled applications and web applications to identify weaknesses, gaps, and vulnerabilities.
- Propose mitigation and countermeasures to reduce or eliminate software-level threats.
- Directly interface with the software development team to ensure software security engineering principles are applied throughout the system development lifecycle.
Required Experience / Qualifications
- Experience in software engineering, development and / or systems engineering throughout all phases of the system development lifecycle.
- Systems administration skills, experience with Linux, security settings, services, hardening of systems (STIGs, security policies);
any shell scripting or Python a plus.
- Knowledge of threat assessment and solutions to mitigate or eliminate such threats.
- Experience with offensive security tools and adversarial techniques and methods.
- Experience implementing software application solutions to comply with NIST SP 800 53 security controls.
- Formal technical documentation skills.
- Experience working with Cyber Range Environments.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, IT or related field required. Professional and / or military experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
Special Requirements / Security Clearance
This position requires certifications necessary to meet IAT II in accordance with DoD 8570.01 M. One or more of the following certifications is required immediately upon hire : GSEC;
Security+; SSCP. Maintaining required continuing education and certification status is required.
Salary Range
Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship status with a current SECRET security clearance, with the ability to attain a TOP SECRET / SCI clearance.
Security Clearance requirements will be specified in the Government's Task Order.
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