Mission Systems Engineering Cyber Lead

Job Qualifications

Assessment & Authorization (A&A), RMF, Security Test and Evaluation (ST&E)

Regular

Top Secret

Top Secret/SCI

None

Cyber and IT Risk Management

Assessment & Authorization (A&A), RMF, Security Test and Evaluation (ST&E)

None

10 + years of related experience

Yes

The work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of USSTRATCOM. USSTRATCOM is a Combatant Command responsible for strategic deterrence, nuclear operations, and enterprise IT services essential to national security. It oversees Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3), Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (JEMSO), Global Strike, and Missile Threat Assessments, working closely with other Combatant Commands, Services, and defense agencies.

SCITLS will be a key component that will ensure mission success and the safety of the U.S. and its allies by providing 24/7 IT services and network support for NIPRNet, SIPRNet, JWICS, and SAP/SAR environment.

• System Lifecycle & Engineering:
  Provide multi-disciplinary engineering, integration, sustainment, and life cycle management for GOC Mission Systems and USSTRATCOM Enterprise connectivity, ensuring security requirements are addressed across all phases.
• Cybersecurity Architecture & Risk Reduction:
  Perform cybersecurity artifact consolidation, system architecture assessment, risk reduction, and secure integration across personnel, hardware, software, and support facilities.
• Risk Management Framework (RMF) & Assessment Documentation:
  Develop, review, evaluate, and endorse RMF system assessment documentation to provide written authorization recommendations to the AO, DAO, or Government Program Managers and simultaneously ensure all system authorization documentation is continuously maintained, current, and accessible to properly authorized individuals.
• Cyber Policy & Compliance:
  Provide expert input for formulating cybersecurity policies based on the RMF, leveraging advanced knowledge of DoW, National, and service-level security standards.
• Strategic Studies & Engineer Support:
  Provide IA expertise to technical studies, risk assessments, and evaluations to optimize organizational security posture & support the planning, development, testing & delivery of holistic, secure IT solutions tailored for GOC Mission Systems

• BS/MS degree in related field; may be substituted for additional years of experience
• 10+ years of experience
• Security Clearance Level: Must have a current/active Top Secret/SCI clearance
• Required
  
  Certifications:
  
  ITIL 5 Foundation certified within 9 months of start;
• Upon start date, certification commensurate with DoW 8140 Workforce i.e:
  • Accepted: SEC+/SecurityX, CASP+, CCSP, CGRC/CAP
  • Preferred: CISSP, CASP, CISM, CGRC
• Location:
  
  Offutt AFB, NE
• Proven ability to implement the Risk Management Framework (RMF), manage Assessment and Authorization (A&A) activities, conduct Security Test and Evaluations (ST&E), and maintain critical documentation like System Security Plans (SSPs) and POA&Ms.
• Expert knowledge of Department of War (DoW) & Intelligence Community (IC) cybersecurity standards, frameworks, and RMF
• Strong capability to advise and communicate information security solutions that strictly adhere to DoW security policies, compliance mandates, and customer requirements to senior leaders.
• Proficiency in conducting periodic assessments of systems, networks, and enclaves to validate security controls and identify configuration deviations.
• Experience evaluating, validating, and mitigating cybersecurity risks, tracking remediation efforts using tools such as eMASS, XACTA, ACAS, and Remedy.
• Hands-on experience ensuring network devices (routers, switches, firewalls), servers, and access control lists are properly configured, patched, and fully compliant with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) Hardware/software integration & configuration
• Ability to oversee and guide cybersecurity personnel in system analysis, patch management, and Cyber Tasking…