Senior Cyber Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation's space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators.

Join us and take your place in space. The Defense Systems Group (DSG) provides analysis-based decision support to senior leaders on space architectures, policy and strategy, technology development, warfighter capability enablers, systems integration, defense industrial base, and threat reduction to help shape existing and future space missions across the national security space (NSS) enterprise. DSG is unique at Aerospace as it not only directly supports major customers, including the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command, Air Force Material Command, and senior leadership at the Pentagon, but also provides a broad range of technical support across the national space enterprise, maintaining vertical responsibilities with customers’ portfolios as well as horizontal, matrixed responsibilities across the corporation.

Additionally, DSG provides deep technical expertise to the Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) in the conception, design, acquisition, launch and operations of satellite, launch vehicle, ground control, and range systems. As the Senior Cyber Engineer on the Enterprise Mission Infrastructure and Platform (EMIP) team, you will be responsible for providing matrixed technical and programmatic leadership and support across multiple Space Force program offices such as Battlefield Management Command, Control, Communications, and Space Intelligence (BMC3I), Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI), the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC), among others.

This role provides critical accreditation, cyber security, and systems engineering support for our various customers and users along with acquisition planning and execution support for their current and future needs across all classification levels. You will facilitate the definition of security objectives, develop system security requirements and verification methods, and support mission-critical engineering decisions by providing a cybersecurity-informed perspective. Your work will ensure that security objectives, protection needs, assurance requirements, and risk management strategies are clearly defined, implemented, and validated.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time on-site at our facilities in Colorado Springs, CO or El Segundo, CA.

• Provide comprehensive cybersecurity systems engineering support to government and contracted personnel in the areas of architecture, configuration management, security assessments, and navigating accreditation issues/concerns
• Engineer, implement and monitor security measures for the protection of cyberspace systems, networks and information throughout the system development lifecycle
• Review and design security architecture for next generation space mission systems and provide recommendations on security improvements to the system's baseline
• Identify and define system security requirements and develop detailed cybersecurity designs that align with mission objectives
• Identify and recommend strategies for mitigation and/or removal of ground and space cybersecurity vulnerabilities
• Participate in risk management activities to ensure cybersecurity risks are evaluated and effective mitigations applied in accordance with security directives
• Provide cybersecurity expertise in support of critical decision points and provide ground truth assessments of security events/activities and posture
• Review cybersecurity test procedures for requirements satisfaction, including participation in Test Readiness Review activities and witnessing of test events