Engineer, Cybersecurity Job Description
Engineer, cybersecurity
provides guidance and direction for cybersecurity planning, implementing security principles, and using general security management best practices.
Engineer, Cybersecurity Duties & Responsibilities
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Work with other company functions (Marketing, After Sales, Industrial Operations, IT) to define product and service specifications
Coordination of activities and eventually people with a strong focus on results and on continuous improvement
Interface with various (also non - technical) divisions external suppliers
Participate in system and subsystem reviews
Supply all technical input for product literature, labels, technical manuals
Perform needed Calculations and simulations
Will conduct security assessments, provide security consultation to military and DoD civilian personnel within PACAF A3/A6I AOR
Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) during annual A&A validation (continuous monitoring) by conducting on-site validation and review using National/DoD/AF standards
Provide updates through AF central FISMA database repository, Enterprise Information Technology Data Repository (EITDR)
At the Government’s request, shall augment unit inspection preparation team providing required expertise in Vulnerability Management, Physical Security, Emission Security (EMSEC), and network security consulting
Engineer, Cybersecurity Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Engineer, Cybersecurity
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CISSP, II, IAT, CISM, CCNA, SSCP, GSEC, OWASP, CEH, III
Education for Engineer, Cybersecurity
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the engineer, cybersecurity job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Technical, Education, Information Technology, Science, Technology, Information Systems
Skills for Engineer, Cybersecurity
Desired skills for engineer, cybersecurity include:
But not limited to:
Architectural requirements
Cybersecurity organization practices
Operations
Principles
Risk management processes
Security best practices in large-scale environments
Engineering and threats and vulnerabilities
IIS
Methodologies
Desired experience for engineer, cybersecurity includes:
Fuzzing techniques
Threat modeling and risk assessment software
CAN Analysis Tools
Secure coding techniques
Solid English is considered mandatory for this role
Six years relevant security experience
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an engineer, cybersecurity. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for engineer, cybersecurity
- Work with unique data sets, security appliances, services and product teams to create complete and holistic analyses
- Create an elaborate model focusing on network traffic due to malware and cyber threat detection that will analyze and predict and their security risks
- Integrate process monitoring and management solutions
- Provide comparison and updates on documentation of services by outside vendors
- Participate in technical committees and industry activities
- Stay abreast of new software and security technologies
- Work with cross divisional team to roll out security protocols to divisions
- Serve as technical liaison to the Developmental Testing Agent at NUWC the Operational Testing Agent at COTF during test planning and execution
- Provide technical support to both program offices in the drafting and promulgation of Acquisition and Test and Evaluation (T&E) documents, to include Cybersecurity Strategy (CSS), T&E Strategy (TES) T&E Master Plan (TEMP)
- Provide expertise during annual A&A validation and Command Cyber Readiness Inspections (CCRIs) and Command Cyber Operational Readiness Inspections (CCORIs) by maintaining up to date knowledge for USCYBER evaluation processes and criteria and supporting continuous monitoring efforts through DISA Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS), conducting on-site validation and review using National/DoD/AF standards
Qualifications for engineer, cybersecurity
- Review and respond to all alarms within the teams’ SLA
- Mentor Level I and Level II Cybersecurity Engineers
- Demonstrated and proven experience in Security Incident Event Management, Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems, Firewalls, Content Filtering Technology, Data Loss Prevention, Configuration Management and Monitoring, End-Point Protection, Database Security and Log Collection and Analysis
- Experience with Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) is highly desirable
- Strong working knowledge of IT systems and networking technologies
- Associates degree (minimum) or related IA experience
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of engineer, cybersecurity. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for engineer, cybersecurity
- Responsible for developing and documenting system artifacts including network diagrams, data topology, and Plan of Actions & Milestones (POA&M)
- Manages HP's vulnerability assessment processes
- Detects vulnerabilities in existing on-premises technologies, but with a focus in go-forward environment such as public cloud IaaS/PaaS services – AWS, Azure
- Evaluates security-relevant infrastructure services such as Active Directory, Web Proxies, Firewalls, against HP policy and industry best practices
- Evaluates network/firewall change requests vs
- Combines industry expertise with a thorough understanding of information and security technology to direct development of remediation or mitigation plans
- Recommends and coordinates the development, enhancement, organization, and maintenance of HP's security assessment solutions and processes
- Acts as an extended part of the Incident Monitoring and Response team when required
- Develops and maintains internal Cybersecurity tools and solutions
- Demonstrates advanced capabilities to develop custom programs, scripts, enhancing off-the-shelf products or established tools
Qualifications for engineer, cybersecurity
- Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering degree with some applicable security design knowledge base
- Must currently possess a Secret Level or higher clearance
- Experience in the development, monitoring, and enforcement of CyberseIA procedures and processes for classified information
- 3-5 years in Cyber Security position
- In depth knowledge of and working experience with ACAS/NESSUS, DISA STIGs, SCAP, HBSS/McAfee, PKI
- Experience in TCP/IP networking and design (especially regarding FW/IDS deployment)
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of engineer, cybersecurity. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for engineer, cybersecurity
- Collaborate with other disciplines to create information assurance requirements implementation plans, cyber defense models, visualizations of risk, and validate defense designs, to determine appropriate models and initial designs
- Incorporate platform and system integration considerations into designs which will establish nominal baseline behaviors, identify anomalies, provide continuous monitoring and assessment of cyber risk
- Generate, interpret, and tailor security and information assurance requirements
- Develop complex test plans and unit tests, participate in testing of system controls and evaluate unit test results
- Participate in security-focused reviews of program/project designs, risk identification, risk mitigation design and analysis, validation of cyber-risk mitigations, residual risk tracking
- Ensure that system(s) and network(s) designs support the incorporation of Information Assurance vulnerability solutions
- Develop material, such as example hacks and social engineering tactics against our own project environments, for awareness and training purposes for our project personnel
- Experience with Code Coverage, build tools, Code signing infrastructure is a plus
- Monitor security alert queue – investigate and triage events based on criticality
- Experience in performing security analysis or reporting utilizing Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) Technologies
Qualifications for engineer, cybersecurity
- Familiar with current DoD C&A/A&A process - DIACAP, RMF, PIT
- Master degree or equivalent in computer science, information security or telecommunication
- Good knowledge of Java (JSE/J2EE), python and SQL database experience (Oracle, MariaDB)
- Good knowledge of Spring, GWT (Google Web Toolkit), HTML/CSS/Java Script
- Good knowledge of Cloud Computing (OpenStack, VMware, etc)
- Good knowledge of Linux (RedHat preferable)
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Our growing company is looking for an engineer, cybersecurity. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for engineer, cybersecurity
- Support with the the administration of cybersecurity products in the program's development and test environment
- Create or revise the program's technical documentation
- Assist in the maintenance of the Log Archiving (Splunk) platform
- Work within current change management processes to apply system updates and patches, provide support for supported security tools
- Documenting Cybersecurity exceptions and working with other senior Cybersecurity team members to update procedures where appropriate
- Actively participate in Cloud design sessions for AWS and Azure build-out, for sandbox, non-prod and prod environments
- Investigate next generation encryption technologies
- Investigate next generation secure element technologies
- Study hypervisor and other software based security mechanisms
- Research next generation secure architectures, providing support to the architecture and systems groups
Qualifications for engineer, cybersecurity
- Produce and distribute weekly reports to identify the state of the environment
- Configure and maintain Web/Email and IDS/IPS policies
- Perform database maintenance on Web/Email and IDS/IPS management consoles
- Network engineering knowledge
- Ten years in software product development, certification, or related field
- Three plus years in engineering process development preferred
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of engineer, cybersecurity. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for engineer, cybersecurity
- To support the procedures implementation and to track their completion
- To monitor the process and perform security gate review
- To support choice of technical tools
- To develop and Implement training
- Review applicable Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) updates to identify updates that need to be addressed to maintain the accreditation status for both systems
- Interpret STIG checklist items and research appropriate remediation or mitigation for those items, test recommendations and work with the system administrators and application developers to ensure the recommendations do not break functionality
- Conduct the annual contingency plan and disaster recovery review
- Support Cyber Security Inspections (CSI) by producing deliverables or evidence to demonstrate compliance with inspection requirements
- Create accreditation related documentation for the stand-alone developer workstations to support the migration to an accredited network
- Manage the vulnerability scan remediation process
Qualifications for engineer, cybersecurity
- Experience using IA/CS tools
- Knowledge of IA/CS tools
- Working experience with Hardware Trust Anchors (HSM, TPM)
- 4-6 years of experience working in Information Security, Cybersecurity, or related field
- 2 years of scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or other similar program)
- 1 year of experience with industry standard encryption, certificate management, wireless communication protection