Cyber Architect

Position: Cyber Architect Staff
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* Description:

** This applicant will join an organization of highly skilled engineers with a wide variety of backgrounds  This organization designs and develops the highest quality products using the best processes and tools to accelerate adoption and transition of modern and unrivaled secure capabilities  This team surpasses it's competition and is shaping the industry by delivering value, excellence, innovation, efficiency, and security

This Cyber Architect candidate is responsible for ensuring that cyber security requirements are properly defined, decomposed, allocated, assessed, and implemented into a system architecture to produce a cyber resilient security design solution for the target platform  Air System or Weapon System   This includes participating in working groups, design reviews, and formal artifact reviews alongside other Subject Matter Experts  SMEs  within the overall platform;

and providing security expertise to ensure that cyber security is considered early in the product development lifecycle

This applicant is expected to lead a range of cyber risk analysis and security assessment methods; identify and define appropriate mitigations to address cyber vulnerabilities, feature changes, or obsolescence; develop documentation for specific installations and configurations necessary to obtain Authorizations to Operation  ATOs  in support of program schedules; and drive Plans of Actions and Milestones  POAMs  to mitigate open cyber risks

This applicants efforts will align to the technical execution of a range of model based engineering initiatives, including interpreting existing documentation and technical inputs to develop models, and conducting experiments with cutting edge technology/processes to drive rigor and digital engineering transformation in our Aeronautics Programs of Record  Likewise, the applicant will support the building of relationships and partnerships with leading DoD technology performers to capitalize on unique skillsets and capability offerings that drive efficiencies and effectiveness in our products and any follow on new business capture

The ideal candidate will communicate effectively with a range of audiences, technical and non technical, and will function effectively on an engineering team to create a collaborative environment that allows for the establishment of mission goals, itemized planning of tasks, and prioritization of tasks that drives the efficient execution of objectives

Must be a US citizen  This position is located at a facility that requires special access and a secret clearance updated within the last 5 years to be considered

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* Basic Qualifications:

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* B S  degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Security, or Information Technology - or equivalent applied experience

3  years of experience in Systems Engineering

4  years of experience with System and/or Security Architecture

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Skills:

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* Experience utilizing Joint Special Access Program  SAP  Implementation Guide  JSIG , Committee on National Security Systems Instruction  CNSSI  1253, and NIST SP 800 37 Risk Management Framework  RMF  to design and harden information systems commensurate with customer needs

Experience executing Systems Engineering processes  i e , requirements management, requirements decomposition, system modeling, integration & test

Experience analyzing, decomposing, and allocating system architectures, requirements, and models

Experience ensuring that cyber security requirements are properly defined, decomposed, allocated, assessed, and implemented into a system architecture to produce a cyber resilient security design solution for the target platform

Prior software engineering / development experience for embedded platforms

Experience with engineering change processes and/or configuration control processes

IASAE Level II - IAW 8570 or higher certification  CASP  CE, CISSP, CSSLP

Experience with Agile project management tools  JIRA, Version One, etc  

Experience developing security architecture representations  e g  Accreditation Boundaries, Physical Diagrams, Logical Diagrams, Functional Diagrams, and Rack Layouts , system design modeling  UML, SysML, Rhapsody, Cameo, Magic Draw , as well as requirements management

Experience performing vulnerability analysis, using automated assessment tools, and identifying risks and mitigations

Experience with the development and sustainment of real time embedded systems  avionics systems or similar

Experience with Real Time Embedded Operating Systems  e g  Green Hills INEGRITY, LynxOS, VxWorks, Yocto

Background/knowledge working with information systems/environments that utilize the Open Mission Systems  OMS  standard and Universal Command and Control Standards Initiative  UCI  message set

Experience conducting technical trade studies, experiments, and assessments

Expertise/knowledge in both compliance testing and penetration testing methodologies

Experience developing…