Junior Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide Tier III and Tier IV support to include platform services, solutions engineering and testing, identity and endpoint security, risk management, and field services.
• Provide technical assistance for IDA related deployments, including planning, engineering, testing, troubleshooting, and also installation work, including the distribution of software to workstations and servers.
• Assist and coordinate with the network operation staff to ensure that patch levels are current, and that Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) and Secure Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliance is maintained.
• Outstanding customer support and knowledge transfer.
• Test and evaluation of new Common Access Card (CAC) and middleware releases, updates, and patches.
• Resolve application bugs and defects and submitting new functional requirements.
• System Administrator and User documentation and guides.
• Assistance with integration of PKI and related IDA technologies into current and future systems.
• Review of and assistance with proposed engineering changes and upgrades.
• Representation at DoD IDA meetings and working groups.
• Provide deployment, operation, maintenance assessment & authorization, and life cycle planning support.
• Manage, track, and support the development of the SharePoint SIPRNet Token Request Portal detailing the RA services provided.
• Maintain a Sharepoint repository for all information related to the program.
• Create and maintain the policy associated with the ECA Only Locally Trusted (OLT) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Ensure the policy includes DoD Certificate Policy (CP), Certification Practice Statement (CPS), Certificate Profiles, and other supporting policy documents and approvals.
• Perform annual compliance audits of the root and issuing Certification Authorities (CAs) to ensure compliant operations of the roots and issuing CAs.
• Operate and maintain the root CAs. Operate and maintain in accordance with the applicable CP and CPS. The operation responsibilities include the creation and publication of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) and Subordinate (Issuing) CA signing ceremonies.

• 5 years experience in Information Assurance / Cybersecurity
• 5 years experience in technical positions focusing primarily on DoD or Federal PKI or PKE
• 5 years requirement identified can be concurrent and/or overlapping
• Experience in the DoD or Federal agencies dealing with the technical aspects of enabling strong authentication and robust logical access control through the use of public key cryptography and related technologies.
• History of installing, configuring, and troubleshooting IDA related products, conducting hands‑on evaluation and testing of IDA related technologies, and dealing with vendors to resolve technical issues.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to follow policies and procedures
• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand, as well as the ability to respond clearly to questions
• Aptitude to address negative situations and resolve them in a positive manner.
• Excellent team skills, must be thorough, must have excellent communications skills
• Demonstrate initiative and be results oriented with flexibility and tenacity
• Demonstrate the ability to continuously adjust priorities to reflect changing circumstances
• Ability to work in a dynamic cross-organizational team environment
• Strong dedication to provide quality customer service
• Effective problem‑solving skills and inherent decision‑making ability
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly identify the cause of issues with the system or determine if other teams need to be included in resolving an issue
• Ability to manage own projects including communications to customers as well as work as part of a larger team managed by a project manager
• Must have IAT II Certification (Security +)
• B.A. or B.S. Information Security, Computer Science or related discipline
• US Citizenship and an active Secret Security Clearance

Contractor site with 0-10% travel possible

Possible off‑hours work to support releases and outages

General office environment. Work is generally sedentary in nature but may require…