Zero Trust Engineer II; TS​/SCI

Zero Trust Engineer

ACO Advanced Resilience is seeking an experienced Zero Trust Engineer to provide on-site support to the Advanced Resilience portfolio in the area of next-generation classified network development for enterprise-scale computing and operational functions.

Successful candidates will provide expert technical advice and guidance to the government on all aspects of enhancing resilience and survivability against sophisticated cyber and physical threats.

The role involves supporting the development of authenticated, secure connections from untrusted devices in untrusted environments. This includes the use of traditional ICAM, biometrics, and novel sensing of the environment. The solution will authenticate the end device, the user, and the environment to allow private communication in public environments and will be implemented on multiple endpoints to enable general purpose clients to connect to decentralized services across a wide variety of transport types and levels of service.

Key responsibilities include:

• Coordinating meetings and assessing technical progress of performers.
• Projecting performance outcomes and ensuring project management best practices are followed.
• Preparing and delivering technical reports, briefings, and presentations to government officials and technical stakeholders.
• Evaluating emerging technologies and monitoring development of novel solutions.
• Contributing to the development of resilient classified networks, services, endpoints, and architectures.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (master’s degree preferred).
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, network development, network security, and/or enterprise systems.
• First‑hand experience with research and/or development of secure platforms, security software for endpoints, and information security software systems.
• Substantial experience with decentralized software services across a wide variety of transport types and levels of service.
• Substantial experience with private key encryption, authentication mechanisms, access control mechanisms, and endpoint security.
• Familiarity with security systems and services, concepts of Zero Trust, and continuous integrity.
• Ability to work with little oversight to achieve team goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively convey complex technical information to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• A high degree of initiative, excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and reliability.
• Familiarity with general systems engineering principles for management of complex systems development.

• Experience with a wide variety of endpoint hardware and form factors (workstations, servers, fixed, mobile, etc.).
• Experience with distributed services.
• Experience with classified network certification and accreditation, including required DOD cybersecurity activities.
• Experience with clandestine or covert operations.
• Experience with cyber operations.
• Experience working with special access programs (SAPs) / CAPs.
• Experience with agile development methodologies.

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