Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect - ELSYS - On Site - Warner Robins, GA - (Open Rank)

The Cybersecurity Research and Development Systems Architect designs and develops new systems, applications, and solutions for external sponsors’ enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks.

The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect is responsible for driving adoption, identifying and defining new security objectives and controls and helping with the organization’s automated security validation development.

This researcher also performs vulnerability analysis and exploitation of applications, operating systems and / or networks.

The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect designs and implements Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) security solutions, and applies those ICAM solutions to advanced problem domains such as federation and trusted information sharing within select target communities of sponsors and project stakeholders.

The Architect ensures system security needs are established and maintained for operations development, security requirements definition, security risk assessment, systems analysis, systems design, security test and evaluation, certification and accreditation, systems hardening, vulnerability testing and scanning, incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.

The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect also provides analytical support for security policy development and analysis, integrates new architectural features into existing infrastructures, designs cyber security architectural artifacts, provides architectural analysis of cyber security features and relates existing systems to future needs and trends.

In addition, the Architect embeds advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction, provides engineering recommendations, and resolves integration and testing issues.

The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect serves in a consultative role, defining controls for different platforms, including definition of protection rule sets, and threat mitigations for potential threats.

The Cybersecurity R&D Systems Architect also interacts, advises, and counsels on a regular basis with internal staff as well as project sponsors and other stakeholders from the communities in which these solutions are implemented.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct sponsor engagement and facilitate product or system requirements gathering and analysis
• Verify cybersecurity engineering product life-cycle including definition, requirements analysis, synthesis, cyber engineering analysis and implementation
• Conduct product or system design synthesis translating requirements into physical cyber architectures for systems of moderate complexity
• Contribute to technical reports and diagrams detailing product or system attributes
• Analyze network security systems and / or information systems and safeguard networks against unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure
• Ensure Configuration Management (CM) of all associated software, hardware, and security relevant functions

Additional Responsibilities

• Lead sponsor engagement and facilitate product or system requirements gathering and analysis
• Interpret, research, and formalize Cyber Security policies, concepts, and measures when designing, procuring, adopting, and developing new Information Systems (IS) to ensure compliance with government policies, guidance, and orders
• Experience implementing required government policies and make recommendations on process tailoring
• Develop and produce technical documentation in accordance with government guidance such as Joint Special Access Program (SAP), Intelligence Community Directive (ICD), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800, and Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• Analyze network security systems and / or information systems and safeguard networks against unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure
• Ensure Configuration Management (CM) of all associated software, hardware, and security relevant functions

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Experience implementing principals of RMF and NIST publications on information systems
• Experience with examining system implementations of cybersecurity controls for their applicability and their level of effectiveness
• Experience with designing security and continuous monitoring plans for systems
• Experience with developing cybersecurity requirements for information systems within acquisition and sustainment lifecycles

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance
• Experience with developing cybersecurity technical documentation in accordance with DoD RMF guidelines
• Experience performing system accreditation, security analysis, information assurance, and / or cybersecurity for Electronic Warfare systems
• Experience with defining enterprise conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) activities
• Experience applying MBSE tool suites to enable the use of model-based best practices in DoD acquisition and system life cycle support

Travel Requirements

Education and Length of Experience

Levels 3, 4

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Mathematics, or related field
• 3 years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Mathematics, or related field
• 0 years of related experience with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Mathematics, or related field

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.