The Cyber Security Systems Engineer studies malware trends and applies in-depth understanding of the threat to the development and implementation of defense-in-depth strategies.
Responsibilities
Ensures products and systems comply with requirements and government information assurance and cyber security standards and practices through formal verification methods.
Verify/validate systems with specific emphasis on network operations and cyber warfare tactics, techniques, and procedures focused on the threat to information networks.
Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
Prepare assessments and cyber threat profiles of current and planned products based on sophisticated testing, research, and analysis.
Conduct research and evaluate technical performance of enterprise products and systems.
Provide feedback to design engineers and evaluate end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
Participate in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements.
Review test plans/procedures and ensures they verify/validate the requirements.
Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements.
Produce high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for decision makers.
Qualifications
Experience verifying and validating systems and assessing cyber threats.
Understanding of requirements and government information assurance and cyber security standards and practices
Excellent communication and written skills
Ability to work independently.
Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level II certification (i.e., Security+ CE)
