Senior Systems Engineer: Cybersecurity & Architecture (Hybrid)

ITnova; Severna Park (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental & Vision benefits

Company paid life Insurance

401k

Paid-time-off

Paid holidays

Job summary

ITnova is seeking a Systems Engineer to support modernization and cybersecurity initiatives for airport, transportation, and government clients. You will assess environments, identify risks, and develop future-state architectures and improvement roadmaps.

Required eight or more years in cybersecurity or systems engineering, with strong knowledge of architecture, risk management, and cloud security. Travel to client sites may be necessary; hybrid work in the DC/Baltimore area is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, systems engineering, technology architecture, or consulting.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, risk management, incident response, vulnerability management, cloud security, and modernization.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technology and cybersecurity assessments through interviews, workshops, and facility walkthroughs.
• Document current-state environments including systems, applications, infrastructure, interfaces, data flows, dependencies, and security controls.
• Develop future-state architectures aligned with client strategy, operational needs, resilience, budget, and risk.
• Identify technology gaps, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, lifecycle concerns, and single points of failure.
• Prepare prioritized recommendations, roadmaps, architecture diagrams, assessment reports, and executive presentations.
• Evaluate cybersecurity posture using frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-series, Zero Trust, and related standards.
• Recommend improvements across network segmentation, IAM, cloud security, monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, vendor access, data protection, and business continuity.
• Support environments across airport OT/IT, passenger-processing, physical security, and cloud services.
• Assist feasibility studies, requirements development, procurement documents, evaluations, proposals, and client presentations.
• Collaborate with client executives, operations personnel, engineers, IT and cybersecurity teams, and vendors.
• Provide technical leadership while contributing directly to project deliverables.

Skills

Cybersecurity architecture

Risk management

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Cloud security

Technology modernization

Client-facing skills

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, information systems, or a related discipline

Job description

ITnova is seeking a Systems Engineer to support modernization and cybersecurity initiatives for airport, transportation, and government clients. You will assess environments, identify risks, and develop future-state architectures and improvement roadmaps.

Required eight or more years in cybersecurity or systems engineering, with strong knowledge of architecture, risk management, and cloud security. Travel to client sites may be necessary; hybrid work in the DC/Baltimore area is expected.