Zero Trust Engineer ; TS​/SCI

Overview

ACO Advanced Resilience is seeking experienced Zero Trust Engineer candidates 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 candidate will support the development of secure, zero‑trust, distributed services with global reach, resilient to constantly changing network environments, and not dependent on specific modes of transport. Users of this network will be able to connect from anywhere in the world, discover available services, and re‑connect back home without configuring network connections themselves.

The candidate will coordinate meetings, assess technical progress, project outcomes, and ensure project‑management best practices. The candidate will prepare and deliver technical reports, briefings, and presentations to government officials and technical stakeholders. The candidate will evaluate emerging technologies, monitor novel solutions, and contribute 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 network development, network security, cybersecurity, and/or enterprise systems.
• First‑hand experience with research and/or development of decentralized services, databases, and networked software systems.
• Substantial experience with decentralized software services across a wide variety of transport types and levels of service.
• Substantial experience with system and network architecture, including performance and scalability assessment, design, and testing.
• Substantial experience with decentralized software services, federated software services, service discovery, and peer‑to‑peer networks.
• Experience with classified enterprise network security, VPNs, Cross‑Domain Solutions (CDS), Multi‑Level Security (MLS) systems, and encryption/COMSEC devices.
• Experience with software‑defined networking, adaptable data transport methods, dynamic traffic engineering, and resilient networking obtained through multipath and transport‑agnostic services.
• Ability to work with little oversight to achieve team goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to convey complex technical information to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• 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 developing and deploying large geographic‑scale enterprise networks.
• Experience developing and deploying mission‑specific expeditionary networks.
• Experience with the engineering and services provided by JWICS, SIPRNet.
• Experience with a wide variety of enterprise networking hardware.
• Experience with a wide variety of small home networking hardware and personal devices.
• Experience with classified network accreditation and 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.