Cyber Security Systems Engineer (Must have an active Secret clearance)
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Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance and DHS Suitability
Epic Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Epic is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architecture and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations.
Job Title: Cyber Security Systems Engineer
Work Location: Virginia / Florida
Responsibilities include:
- Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading edge cybersecurity system
- Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design & Development Lead and Chief Engineer
- Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architecture, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
- Representing the voice of the user in development
- Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams
- Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures
- Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system
Required Skills:
- Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
- 8+ years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, detailed design of system components, and direct automation / orchestration experience with larger systems
- Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams
- Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor
- Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role
- Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
- Advanced experience with AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform cloud deployment and management tools
- Demonstrated experience with AWS services such as Amazon EMR, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, AWS IAM, Amazon RDS, Amazon RedShift, Amazon Athena, Amazon Sagemaker
- Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration
- Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or AWS CloudFormation/AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
Desired Skills:
- Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework
- Experience with Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and cloud architecture, design, and implementation - DevSecOps or DevOps experience
- Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g. ISO, CMMI, ITIL, etc.)
- Experience and/or familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53) - DHS experience.
Required Education:
Bachelor s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.
Desired Certifications:
- SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM/SASM, RTE, POPM, SPD, ASE, or SPC)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate / Pro
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate
- DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)