Information System Security Engineer (ISSE)-Senior with Security Clearance

Quantech Services Inc.; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantech Services is seeking an experienced Information System Security Engineer to join our team in Fort Meade, MD. The ISSE-Senior will perform security assessments, validate requirements, and design security into multi-enclave environments to meet DoD and NSA/CSS RMF standards.

Requirements include active TS/SCI with poly, DoD 8570 IASAE Level 3, ISSEP and CISSP certifications, and 20 years of ISSE experience on comparable programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or related discipline is required.
• A Master's degree may substitute for two years of experience; reduces requirement by two years.

Responsibilities

• Perform requirements gathering and analysis.
• Serve as the primary security engineering representative on engineering teams for secure networking, computing and enclave environments.
• Apply cyber security policy and workforce knowledge to design and implement secure environments.
• Interact with the customer and project team members.
• Lead security engineering on architectures, systems or components.
• Support enforcement of trusted relationships among external systems.
• Contribute to security planning, risk analysis, and risk management.
• Identify security requirements for Government data handling.
• Provide security planning and risk management.
• Design system or network configurations across multiple enclaves.

Skills

Security engineering

Requirements analysis

System design

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IA

MS substitute for experience

Job description

Quantech Services is seeking an experienced Information System Security Engineer to join our team in Fort Meade, MD. The ideal candidate is a seasoned information security professional with proven expertise in the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense security operations and compliance. Specifically, the Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE)-Senior shall perform, or review, technical security assessments of computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Cybersecurity standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies. Validate and verifies system security requirements definitions and analysis and establishes system security designs. Design, develop, implement and/or integrate Cybersecurity and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, and enclave environments to include those with multiple enclaves and with differing data protection/classification requirements. Build Cybersecurity into systems deployed to operational environments. Assist architects and systems developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application of Agency

Security policy and enterprise solutions. Support the building of security architectures. Enforce the design and implementation of trusted relations among external systems and architectures. Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the system development life cycle. Contribute to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations. Review certification and accreditation (C&A) documentation, provide feedback on completeness and compliance of its content. Support security authorization activities in compliance with NSA/CSS Information System Certification and Accreditation Process (NISCAP) and DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF), the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) process, and prescribed NSNCSS business processes for security engineering. Job Duties

Job Duties

• Perform requirements gathering and analysis of said requirements
• Participate as the primary security engineering representative on engineering teams for the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and/or integration of secure networking, computing, and enclave environments
• Apply knowledge of Cybersecurity policy, procedures, and workforce structure to design, develop, and implement secure networking, computing, and enclave environments
• Interact with the customer and other project team members
• Participate as the primary security engineering representative on engineering teams for the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and/or integration of Cybersecurity architectures, systems, or system components
• Support the Government in the enforcement of the design and implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures
• Support security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management
• Identify overall security requirements for the proper handling of Government data
• Provide security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management
• Perform system or network designs that encompass multiple enclaves, to include those with differing data protection/classification requirements
• Recommend system-level solutions to resolve security requirements

Please see standard Work, Physical and Mental Requirements for all Quantech roles.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

This is largely a sedentary role mostly sitting; however, some filing may be required . This would require the ability to move files, or boxes with file data, open filing cabinets and bend or stand as necessary, ability to lift up to 40lbs.

Mental Demands:

Reading; communicate effectively (verbal and written); maintain emotional control and professionalism.

Job Requirements Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. A Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or related discipline may be substituted for two (2) years of experience, reducing the requirement to eighteen (18) years of experience.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, four (4) additional years of ISSE experience may be substituted.

Clearance:

Active TS/SCI clearance w/a FS polygraph.

Certifications:

• DoD 8570 compliance with IASAE Level 3 is required.
• Both Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) and CISSP Certifications are required.

Experience:

• Twenty (20) years’ experience as an ISSE on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity to include recent experience within the last five (5) years with Cybersecurity principles and technology, including access/control, authorization, identification and authentication, PKI, network and enterprise security architecture is required.

Security clearance required TSSCI - Full Scope Poly