Principal System Security Engineer - P4

The Principal System Security Engineer (P4) role supports Raytheon’s Systems Security Engineering team, where you will help develop holistic security solutions for National Security Systems and protect the Warfighter’s technology advantage. This position is onsite in Woburn, MA and requires U.S. citizenship along with the ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance (INTERIM prior to start).

• Partner with customers to define System Security Engineering (SSE) requirements, architecture, solutions, trade studies, and vendor product analysis, including costs, implementation approach, system impacts, and effectiveness
• Develop, design, integrate, test, and maintain cybersecurity capabilities for National Security Systems
• Support compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF) controls
• Create top-level system requirements and flow down requirements and implementation concepts to subsystem levels
• Produce plans and estimates, track task execution, manage project reporting, and develop risk identification and mitigation planning
• Advise program management on SSE architecture and related issues, and deliver technical briefings to leadership
• Define security development and test efforts for implementation of security controls across networking devices, databases, operating systems, and hardware and software components, including associated technical documentation
• Integrate cybersecurity development activities and support test and integration efforts
• Support the development of bids and proposals

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 8 years of prior relevant experience
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required; U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• Experience in System Security Engineering and/or Cybersecurity Engineering and/or System Administration or IT/Network Administration
• Experience with NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF)

• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret security clearance
• Managerial or leadership experience
• Hands-on experience with cybersecurity tools and products, including anti-virus, host-based or endpoint security solutions such as HIDS/HIPS, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and SIEM tools, plus centralized auditing tools (Splunk, IBM QRadar, Elasticsearch)
• Linux Bash scripting or Python scripting experience, comfort using Linux/Unix command line tools, and experience with automation or orchestration tools such as Ansible
• Security systems engineering experience across varied computer hardware and software operating systems and application solutions, including both stand-alone air-gapped environments and LAN/WAN configurations
• Experience with virtualization and containerization technologies, including building and securely configuring virtual machine images; familiarity with VMWare, Open Shift, and V-Sphere
• DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level-II Compliant certification (for example, Security+, CISSP, CEH, or equivalent)
• Experience with security features and/or vulnerability analysis for operating systems defined by DoD or Intelligence agencies, including vulnerability research and cybersecurity threat research; experience with Tenable Nessus vulnerability scanning
• Experience administering IT and/or network and systems security, including operating system security configuration, hardening and patching, and account management practices for UNIX, Microsoft Windows/Server, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux; DISA STIG hardening experience is a plus
• Experience securely configuring networking devices and software-defined…