Cybersecurity/Network Engineer

General Dynamics Electric Boat; New London (CT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Electric Boat, headquartered in Connecticut, seeks highly skilled Cybersecurity and Network Engineers to design, implement, and test software for US Navy Nuclear Submarines.

You will help build a new multi-site software development network supporting labs, ensure confidentiality and integrity of shipboard and enterprise systems, and contribute to secure architectures for next-generation submarines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software/engineering field required.
• Five+ years post-graduate engineering experience.
• DoD secret clearance with potential for Top Secret required.

Responsibilities

• Interface with hardware, systems, software, and test engineering teams.
• Architect, configure, and maintain the multi-site software development network and shipboard systems.
• Adjust configurations to remove roadblocks without compromising security or schedules.
• Prepare presentations and participate in NAVSEA design reviews.
• Tactical application administration.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Network engineering

Independent worker

Education

Bachelor’s of Science in Software/CS/Cybersecurity/CE/EE

Tools

C/C++

Java

Python

Go

Job description

Electric Boat’s Tactical Software Engineering department designs, tests, and installs software for US Navy Nuclear Submarines. Electric Boat is seeking highly skilled Cybersecurity and Network Engineers to support the architecture, design, implementation, and testing of software deliverables, and support the build out of a new multi-site software-specific development network supporting component and systems labs. This role is critical to ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of both ship-board and enterprise systems used to design the world’s most advanced submarines.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Interface closely with hardware, systems, software, and test engineering departments.
• Architect, configure, and maintain the multi-site software development network & shipboard systems.
• Adjust system configurations as needed to solve development road blocks without compromising security, compliance, or schedules.
• Prepare presentations and participate in NAVSEA design reviews.
• Tactical application administration.

Required

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s of Science degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
• Five or more years of relevant post-graduate engineering experience
• Must possess, or have the ability to obtain & maintain, a DoD Secret clearance with the potential for a DoD Top Secret.

Preferred

• COMPTIA Security+, Network+, CISSP, or CASP+ certified.
• Experience building and/or working in DevSecOps environments.
• Experience in administering and managing corporate/development networks.
• Proficiency in programming languages like C/C++, Java, Python, Go.
• Experience testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities.
• Understanding of computing environments, including virtualization, containerization, networks and protocols, identity access management, PKI, vulnerability assessment tools, etc..
• Familiarity with NIST 800-53 control families and their application.
• Experience with Linux Operating System.
• Experience with Bash scripting.
• Knowledge in configuring Cisco and Arista switches (MLAG,trunking etc).
• Knowledge of Ansibile.
• Active DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance.

Skills

• Candidate must be highly motivated, perform work independently, as well as interact with other groups and organizations in an engineering environment

Physical Qualifications

Light Lifting

Environmental Attributes

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