Cybersecurity Engineer, Governance & Compliance - Frederick, MD

ROHDE & SCHWARZ GmbH & Co. KG; Frederick (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ROHDE & SCHWARZ GmbH & Co. KG in Frederick, MD, seeks a cybersecurity professional to develop, maintain, and improve governance processes, standards, templates, and technical guidance.

The role requires translating customer, contractual, regulatory, and internal cybersecurity requirements into actionable system and engineering requirements, and mapping controls to NIST SP 800-53, CSF, DISA STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, and other standards.

Job description

• Develop, maintain, and improve cybersecurity governance processes, standards, procedures, templates, and technical guidance.
• Analyze customer, contractual, regulatory, and internal cybersecurity requirements and translate them into actionable system and engineering requirements.
• Map technical and operational security controls to applicable frameworks, primarily NIST SP 800-53, as well as NIST CSF, DISA STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, and other applicable customer or industry requirements.
• Develop and maintain System Security Plans (SSPs), security assessment reports, control implementation summaries, risk assessments, risk matrices, security procedures, and related cybersecurity documentation.
• Maintain traceability between customer requirements, system requirements, implemented security controls, verification activities, and supporting evidence.
• Support cybersecurity risk management activities including risk identification, analysis, treatment, acceptance, and residual risk documentation.
• Participate in customer cybersecurity meetings, design reviews, audits, assessments, and approval activities.
• Assist engineering teams in interpreting cybersecurity requirements and determining practical implementation approaches.
• Perform cybersecurity assessments of systems, subsystems, COTS products, software, and embedded components.
• Support threat modeling, attack-surface analysis, security architecture reviews, and security design activities.
• Review network architectures, interfaces, data flows, trust boundaries, segmentation, authentication mechanisms, logging, and security controls.
• Support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), customer deployments, onsite assessments, and other cybersecurity project activities when required.
• Contribute to cybersecurity process improvement, standardization, training, knowledge transfer, automation, and development of reusable security artifacts.
• Maintain awareness of evolving U.S. cybersecurity regulations, standards, customer requirements, and industry best practices.
• Support the broader cybersecurity organization as priorities, programs, and customer requirements evolve.