Security Engineer
Springfield, VA

Job Description

Overview:

Every day at Perspecta, we enable hundreds of thousands of people to take on our nation's most important work. We're a company founded on a diverse set of capabilities and skills, bound together by a single promise: we never stop solving our nation's most complex challenges. Our team of engineers, analysts, developers, investigators, integrators and architects work tirelessly to create innovative solutions. We continually push ourselves-to respond, to adapt, to go further. To look ahead to the changing landscape and develop new and innovative ways to serve our customers.

Perspecta works with U.S. government customers in defense, intelligence, civilian, health care, and state and local markets. Our high-caliber employees are rewarded in many ways-not only through competitive salaries and benefits packages, but the opportunity to create a meaningful impact in jobs and on projects that matter.

Perspecta's talented and robust workforce-14,000 strong-stands ready to welcome you to the team. Let's make an impact together.

Perspecta is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories

Responsibilities:

Description:

The Systems Engineering and Integration for the National Systems for Geospatial-Intelligence (SEIN) program delivers full life-cycle systems integration and engineering services to the missions of its customer. This program is chartered to provide technical leadership for many of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA's) highest priorities and projects.

The Senior Security Engineer/Integrator is part of the Security Engineering team responsible for working closely with the government customer to evaluate security risk to ensure compliance with IC policies and standards; develop deliverables documenting the planning, policy, interfaces and architecture of technical security services. The candidate will provide project oversight and ensure integration of security requirements in accordance with agency certification and accreditation processes, and technical security engineering required to support the Agency's transition to enterprise services.

The candidate will be expected to demonstrate security/systems engineering technical competency in one or more of the following areas that include, but are not limited to:

* IC and DoD policy and procedures
* Cross domain systems/controlled interfaces
* Data marking/tagging and release
* Enterprise Audit
* Identity and Access Management
* Public Key Infrastructure
* Cloud Security
* System Assessment and Authorization

The candidate should possess knowledge and experience in preparing and briefing technical security topics to senior program leadership and senior government managers., and have demonstrated experience working collaboratively within a team comprised of both senior and junior level security engineers to foster sharing of expertise and a learning environment.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in systems engineering or related science or engineering field
* 11+ years of Security System Engineering Integration of large, complex systems
* 3+ years of development or administration of security appliances, network equipment or secure operating systems
* Proven ability to utilize systems engineering techniques and principles to determine technical security engineering requirements within complex systems
* Experience in one or more security engineering areas, specifically associated with identity management, authentication and authorization; secure communications, data marking/labeling, access and releasability; secure storage, secure communications, auditing and policy management and enforcement; network and security within cloud-based environments; cross domain/controlled interface solutions
* Knowledge and experience with security engineering policies and procedures supporting DCID 6/3 and ICD 503
* Demonstrated experience in working highly visible, major government project engineering and integration activities
* Experience in strategic and technical planning
* Networking/Infrastructure Security
* Experience associated with IC agencies and the DoD
* Excellent customer relationship and presentation skills
* TS/SCI clearance

Desired Qualifications:

* Advanced degree in a technical field
* Experience developing and implementation planning of complex systems or enterprises
* Professional certification, commensurate with experience and compliant with DOD 8570
* Working knowledge of the NSG and NGA Acquisition Processes
* Knowledge of Agile engineering and DevOps methods and processes
* Demonstrated operational experience with intelligence systems
* Experience associated with security engineering and system development integration