Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE)

Open Systems Technologies Corporation; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

11 federal holidays

Medical and dental coverage

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance

401(k) with match

Profit sharing

Job summary

Open Systems Technologies Corporation seeks an Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to support a fast-paced, nationally significant program. The ISSE will work on adding capabilities to a complex system with stringent security requirements and collaborate with security engineers across development, test, integration, and operations.

The successful candidate will validate security requirements, propose architectures, and lead risk assessments while staying aligned with customer security

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of security practices and hands-on vulnerability testing with customer tools.
• Experience applying Risk Management Framework and IT security policy.
• Familiarity with common security tooling and encryption techniques.
• Ability to configure secure desktop/server environments and communicate options clearly.

Responsibilities

• Validate and verify system security requirements and design for large-scale systems.
• Identify security architectures and ensure enterprise policy is applied.
• Assess threats and risks across program life cycle and mitigate them.
• Lead security planning, risk analysis, assessment, and awareness activities.
• Collaborate with engineers to meet security requirements in hardware/software.
• Communicate security issues with program managers and customers as needed.
• Support agile teams through security verification testing and audits.

Skills

Vulnerability testing

RMF

Security policy

Nessus

NMAP

Wireshark

Secure configurations

Communication skills

Independent/team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Security

Tools

Nessus

NMAP

Wireshark

Job description

Open Systems Technologies Corporation is a leader in the government contracting marketplace, providing Enterprise Security and Cloud Computing solutions to support large organizations. Our capabilities include supplying federal government entities and private businesses with software development, scientific and engineering technical assistance, systems integration, and enterprise security. Since its founding in 1996, OST has been committed to delivering high-quality, best-in-class results that bring added value to our clients while investing in our employees’ futures by providing exciting projects to work on, and robust benefits to include technical training and certifications, relocation assistance and a 401K match with immediate vesting.

We are currently seeking an Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to support a nationally significant and fast-paced program. An ISSE is needed to provide support for adding new capabilities to a complex system with an exacting interface, performance, and security requirements. The selected individual will become part of a team of Security Engineers working on solving challenging issues on a large, significant program. The position requires a solid understanding of security practices and policies as well as hands-on vulnerability testing experience. The selected individual will collaborate with other engineers and technical experts in providing improvements to our operational, test, integration, and development systems.

Primary Responsibilities

• 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 meets 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 effect various components of geographically distributed systems.
• Providing configuration management for security-relevant information system software.
• Serving as a subject matter expert in security architecture to include 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have a solid understanding of security practices and policies and hands-on vulnerability testing experience using Customer tools.
• Must have experience applying Risk Management Framework.
• Must have experience formulating and assessing IT security policy.
• Must have demonstrated knowledge of and experience with common security tools, such as Nessus, NMAP and Wireshark hardware/software security implementation, communication protocol, encryption techniques/tools, and web services.
• Must have experience with secure configurations of commonly used desktop and server operating systems.
• Must be comfortable working on multiple systems and components simultaneously in various configurations.
• Must have strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.
• Must be able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs.
• Must be capable of performing high quality work both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or a related discipline
• Five (5) years of experience with Defense in Depth Principals/technology (including access control, authorization, identification and authentication, public key infrastructure, network and enterprise security architecture) and applying risk assessment methodology to system development.
• DoD 8570 compliance with IASAE Level 2 or 3.
• Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) Certification.
• Computer Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification.
• Experience developing/implementing integrated security services management processes, such as assessing and auditing network penetration testing, anti-virus planning assistance, risk analysis, and incident response.
• Experience providing information assurance support for application development that includes system security certifications and project evaluations for firewalls that encompass the development, design, and implementation.
• Experience with penetration testing tools.
• Experience with scripting languages.??

OST is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has been operating since 1996 providing support on various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 11 Federal Holidays, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end-of-year profit sharing.