Cyber Systems Engineer Senior Technical Specialist - CO CYS Support

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Program Description:

The program provides Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support in the areas of Cybersecurity and Management to improve the Information Assurance (IA) posture of a National customer. The contracts Core Capabilities are: IA Management, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) coordination and reporting, Risk Management Framework (RMF) application, IA compliance measurements and metrics, Assessment and Authorization (A&A), Vulnerability Management, and Cyber Defense support.

Position Description:

The Cyber Squadron (CYS) SETA provides support to the customer in the area of Cybersecurity. Daily tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Identify baseline, capability and coverage gaps
• Recommend process improvements
• Plan future requirements and capabilities
• Support specific technical efforts to enable mission assurance, resiliency, and defensive cyber operations
• Assist with validation and verification of CYS activities. Provide research, independent analysis, documentation, Concept of Operations development, planning, capability assessments and proof of concept activities
• Assess current and proposed changes to relevant processes, procedures, applications and infrastructure
• Articulate priorities, risks, issues and opportunities
• Ensure future capabilities are sound, meet documented requirements and standards and are maintainable for CYS operations.
• Brief senior leaders on current efforts, blockers, and needs
• Develop multi-year plan and receive support/buy off from senior leaders
• Develop and lead the incident response plan for unique missions
• Design and develop solutions and briefings for leadership
• Support squadron personnel with in-depth analysis of mission sets and drive operational priorities

Required:

• 12 to 15 years with BS/BA or 10 to 13 years with MS/MA or 7 to 9 years with Ph.D.
• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
• Able to support customer's core hours (0730-1400; Mon - Fri)
• DoD 8570 L3 certification in IAT or IAM
• Ability to assist CYS with all aspects of cyber identification, protection, detection and response in order to be able to understand and recommend approaches and solutions to enable the CYS mission
• Experience with the customer's operations environment; mission systems familiarity
• Highly developed oral and written communication skills necessary to work with a wide variety of personnel, including the executive level, technical experts, and non-technical mission experts
• Demonstrated experience in systems engineering, requirements development and technical analysis of requirements leading to analysis of alternatives, multi-year planning, and solutions engineering
• Experience with active and passive CND solutions and the analytics used to perform Defensive Cyber Operations with Mission Assurance to include Syslog, Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), IDS, Full Packet Capture, Elastic Stack, SIEM (ArcSight, LogRhythm, Splunk, Etc)
• AWS/C2S Cloud familiarity/experience and associated AWS/C2S Cybersecurity Services
• Ability to work in highly decentralized organization requiring both virtual and physical interaction with mission partners across organizational boundaries.
• Experience navigating Governance, Risk Compliance tools (GRC)
• Experience working with ATO packages, including reviewing their security relevant artifacts
• Experience collaborating with Information System Owners to understand needs/requirements
• Ability to work multiple high priority projects and manage the competing timelines including sudden taskings and needs from leadership

Desired:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) or an advanced IA certification
• Self-starter requiring limited direction and supervision
• Experience briefing senior customer personnel
• Ability to organize and prioritize numerous customer requests in a fast-paced deadline driven environment
• Familiarity with customer's mission and mission architecture for ground sites

EEO

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.