Principal Systems Safety Engineer - RMF

Associates Systems LLC; Tewksbury (MA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Associates Systems LLC in Tewksbury, Massachusetts is seeking qualified candidates for a Full Time on-site position. The role requires the ability to obtain a U.S. government issued security clearance. The salary range for this position is between $160K and $185K, complemented by benefits including health, dental, vision, PTO, and holidays.

Responsibilities include defining systems engineering requirements, ensuring compliance with security standards, and supporting program management activities. Candidates should have strong project management and cybersecurity skills.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance required.
• Experience with NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) controls.
• Familiarity with DoD technology release and export licensing policies.

Responsibilities

• Interact with the customer to define SSE requirements.
• Develop plans and estimates for project execution.
• Ensure compliance with NIST RMF controls.
• Support program management with SSE architecture issues.
• Define the implementation of security controls.
• Integrate cybersecurity development activities.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Project management

Cybersecurity knowledge

Risk management

Job description

Job Overview

All Qualified candidates will be responded to in 24 hours or less. Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance required. This effort is on‑site. Employment type: Full Time - Direct. Rate: 160K - 185K. Benefits: including Health, Dental, Vision, PTO, Holiday.

Responsibilities

• Interact with the customer to define SSE requirements, solutions, trades, costs, implementation, system impacts, and effectiveness.
• Develop plans and estimates, task execution, project tracking, reporting, and risk identification and mitigation plans.
• Ensure compliance with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF) controls.
• Consult and assist program management with SSE architecture and issues.
• Support the development of bids and proposals.
• Define security development and test efforts implementation of security controls of networking devices, databases, operating systems, and hardware and software component.
• Integrate cybersecurity development activities.
• Develop top‑level system requirements and flow down requirements and implementation concepts to subsystem.
• Understanding, and compliance with, DoD technology release and export licensing policies.