Senior Cybersecurity System Engineer

Title: Senior Cybersecurity System Engineer

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K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Innovative Projects: K ’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

Collaborative Environment:
Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

Impactful Work:
Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of Joint and multi-domain operations.

• Responsible for the review of DoW Information Technology cybersecurity postures by leveraging a deep understanding of complex technical protocols and the evolving threat landscape to systematically identify, mitigate, and manage risks through structured security frameworks while ensuring all operational strategies align strictly with legal, regulatory, and corporate policy boundaries.

• Provide Subject Matter Expert for Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) to include Cloud Enterprise CDS within the DOW. Supports DOW in execution of Raise the Bar compliance and effort to eliminate/transition Point to Point CDS, and implementation of Defensive Cyber Operations for CDS.

• Manage the DoW Scorecard for CDS, creation of briefs, development of Cloud CDS processes, CDS briefs and updates to DOW leadership.

• Serve as a Technical Advisor to the DoW CIO voting members for the Defense IA/ Security Accreditation Working Group (DSAWG) and Information Risk Management Committee (ISRMC) governance boards, prepare briefs, and ensure principals are prepared for meeting with in-depth technical reviews of presented technology and cybersecurity architectures.

• Serve as a technical member to the Cross Domain Technical Advisory Board and Information Domain Technical Advisory Boards.

• Provide in depth technical DoW Cloud compliance reviews, lead risk assessment approach based on Secure Cloud Computing Architecture framework, assist DOW organizations with cyber security engineering to support IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud environments to align to DOW Instruction, Policy, and Security Requirements Guides to include Identity, Cybersecurity Service Provider Coverage, and Boundary Protections.

• Provide technical review and risk assessments for key DOW emerging technologies to include cloud IT projects, pilots driving Zero Trust, Software Defined networking, and Cloud Edge Computing.

• Ability to collaborate and communicate critical to success. Influence policy changes to enable new technologies and overarching process improvements wrt Cybersecurity initiatives and policy to include DODI 8010.01, DODI 8530.01, CSF 2.0, Cloud SRG, Cloud SCAA, National Cross Domain Strategy Management Office (NCDSMO) Guides, and DoD Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Directive Memos. Familiarity with Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM), Comply to Connect, and OUSD(I&S) Collaboration Peripherals is key.

• Strong executive written and oral communications is paramount. Responsible for the development and refinement of Congressional reports and briefs in response to NDAA tasking to both the HASC and SASC, updates to DOW Instruction towards publishing, and key DoW and CISO policy memorandums.

• Provide support and analysis for DoW representatives preparing for various reviews and meetings

• Assist in identifying programmatic budget shortfalls and preparing…