Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

Torch Technologies

Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation's top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country.

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providing support to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/HBD), Theater Battle Control Division at Hanscom AFB, MA. The Theater Battle Control Division manages efforts focused on developing, acquiring, fielding and sustaining programs that support worldwide communications, Battle Management, Command & Control, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C2

ISR), Tactical Air Control, Air/Ground Surveillance, Time Critical Targeting, Combat Identification, Radar Imagery, Integrated Air/Missile Defense, and Mobile/Fixed C2

ISR Performance, Exploitation & Dissemination Facilities.

• Assist with development of System Security Management Plans, Program Protection Plans, Security Risk Analyses, OPSEC Plans, Computer Certification and Accreditation, Security Vulnerability and Countermeasures Analyses, Security Concepts of Operations, and other system security engineering-related documents identified in MIL-STD 1785, DoWI 5000.02, Operation of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, and DoWI 8510.01
• Support the system/application Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) effort to include assessing and guiding the quality and completeness of A&A activities, tasks and resulting artifacts mandated by governing DoW and Air Force policies (i.e., Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• Update, monitor, and manage information in systems for the program office
• Process and manage system user account requests and process tools
• Process and manage system port/protocol and access control list requirements.
• Processandmanag system Public Key Infrastructure(PKI) identification and authorization requirements
• Manage the distribution, implementation, remediation, and tracking of system security updates and configurations as required by the DoW
• Recommend policies and proceduretoensure information systems reliability and accessibility to prevent and defend against unauthorized access to systems, networks, and data
• Conduct risk and vulnerability assessments of planned and installed information systems to identify vulnerabilities, risk, and protection needs
• Promote awareness of security issues among management and ensuring sound security principles are reflected in organizations' vision and goals
• Conduct systems security evaluations, audits and reviews
• Recommend systems security contingency plans and disaster recovery procedures
• Recommend and implementing programs to ensure that systems, network, and data users are aware of, understand, and adhere to systems security policies and procedures
• Participate in network and systems design to ensure implementation of appropriate systems security policies
• Recommend initial, or updates to, software and configurations to new or existing system security mechanisms
• Obtain waivers to mandated security mechanisms/policies which would be detrimental to system performance and impact the system's mission
• Facilitate the gathering, analysis and preservation of evidence used in the prosecution of computer
• Provide leadership assistance in the analysis of the design, development, integration, implementation and testing of cybersecurity requirements
• Develop risk-based strategies to address identified gaps
• Review,analyze, and assess implementationsofcybersecurity (i.e RMF security controls) throughout the open systems architecture and associated services, derived requirements specifications, design documents &design implementation
• Collaborate with stakeholders (Government and commercial) to ensure the system is approved by all Authorizing Officials via the RMF A&A process
• Provide technical advice in the area of systems security across all systems and supports
• Develop recommendations for the Government regarding how well designs satisfy current requirements and business goals
• Maintain databases that reflect receipt, storage, inventory, and disposition of classified information to include data entry, updates, and generation of reports
• Support Government program office in audits of Government classified holdings to ensure proper accountability
• Maintain databases of classified visits and clearance levels
• Perform inspection, inventory, logging, storage, documentation, transmittal and internal distribution of classified information received
• Evaluate Contractor…