Information Systems Security Engineer - ISSE

CyberCore Technologies; Corridor North (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CyberCore Technologies in the United States seeks a Senior Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to lead security design, risk assessment, and enforcement across large-scale networks. The role requires hands-on vulnerability testing and collaboration with system engineering, test, and integration teams to ensure security requirements are met.

Candidates will plan security verification testing, support continuous monitoring, and advise program managers and customer engineers on security

Qualifications

• Experience with security architectures and security policy enforcement.
• Familiarity with risk analysis, certification, and continuous monitoring.
• Knowledge of security testing and vulnerability assessment methods.

Responsibilities

• Validate and verify system security requirements across large-scale systems.
• Lead and contribute to security planning, risk analysis, and awareness activities.
• Collaborate with engineering, test, and integration teams to meet security requirements.
• Advise Program Managers and customer engineers on security issues of significance.

Job description

CyberCore is looking for a Senior Information System Security Engineer (ISSE)

This position requires a solid understanding of security practices and policies as well as hands‑on vulnerability testing experience. The selected candidate will have numerous responsibilities from day to day drawn from a wide array of activities. The strongest candidates will have experience working in these areas:

• Validating and verifying system security requirements and establishing system security designs for large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
• Identifying and implementing appropriate information security architectures and functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.
• Recommending and developing technical solutions, products, and standards based on current and desired system security architecture.
• Assessing and mitigating system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Leading and/or contributing to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification, and awareness activities for various system and networking operations.
• Effectively collaborating with other internal technical experts on a day-to-day basis.
• Communicating with Program Managers and POCs from customer organizations when necessary, regarding Security issues of significant importance.
• Participating in Program Increment Planning and related agile team activities.
• Working closely with System Engineering, Test Engineering, and Integration teams to ensure that the hardware and software architecture and implementation meet security requirements.
• Analyzing and assessing system implementation against multiple security compliance policies and recommending and implementing enhancements.
• Evaluating security solutions to ensure they meet customer-specified requirements for processing information.
• Evaluating the impact of new development on the operational security posture of the system.
• Evaluating, reviewing, and testing critical software.
• Proposing, assessing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
• Auditing and assessing system security configuration settings using common methodologies and tools.
• Managing and enforcing security strategies and policies that affect various components of geographically distributed systems.
• Providing configuration management for security-relevant information system software.
• Serving as a subject matter expert in security architecture including providing advice to Program Managers, Customer technical experts, and internal program teams.
• Formulating security compliance requirements for new system features.
• Identifying and remediating security issues throughout the system.
• Supporting risk assessment, risk management, security control assessment, continuous monitoring, service design, and other IA program support functions.
• Working with development teams to enrich team-wide understanding of different types of vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and remediation approaches.
• Planning and conducting security verification testing of relevant type 1 devices.