Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree, plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS: Department of Defense Secret security clearance is preferred at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
Responsibilities for this Position
ROLE AND POSITION OBJECTIVES:
As an Advanced Systems Engineer - Portfolio Cybersecurity Lead for Fleet Ballistic Missile Auxiliary and Training Systems, you will coordinate the day-to-day cybersecurity systems engineering work across a portfolio of simulation, test, training, and support systems serving the Ohio-class fleet and future Columbia-class submarines.
Our portfolio develops, maintains, and enhances systems that allow engineering teams to integrate and test Fire Control capabilities in lab environments and help prepare the fleet to operate those capabilities. You will help establish and carry out a consistent cybersecurity engineering approach across the portfolio while tailoring implementation to each system's mission, architecture, operating environment, life-cycle phase, and authorization boundary.
You will lead the engineering work that turns cybersecurity policy and risk decisions into implementable system requirements, designs, configurations, tests, and objective evidence. You will coordinate cybersecurity activities throughout the Risk Management Framework life cycle, including requirements and control allocation, system security documentation, control implementation statements, risk and vulnerability analysis, verification planning, assessment evidence, remediation plans, Plans of Action and Milestones inputs, continuous monitoring artifacts, and authorization package support.
This role combines technical leadership with direct engineering execution. You will perform security analyses, contribute to secure system and network architectures, evaluate designs and proposed changes, support system hardening, investigate vulnerabilities and noncompliant configurations, develop and execute verification methods, and work with engineering teams to implement and validate practical mitigations. You will help ensure that cybersecurity is built into the system development life cycle rather than treated only as an end-stage compliance activity.
You will lead and mentor systems engineers performing cybersecurity work across the portfolio. You will establish clear priorities, delegate and coordinate technical tasks, review work products and evidence, promote reusable methods and lessons learned, and drive risks, findings, dependencies, and corrective actions to closure. You will partner closely with systems, software, hardware, infrastructure, integration, test, configuration management, program cybersecurity, security, and customer teams to provide clear status, risk assessments, options, and recommendations.
We encourage you to apply if you have any of these preferred skills or experiences:
- Experience leading cybersecurity or systems security engineering across multiple systems, products, programs, or authorization boundaries.- Experience applying the Department of Defense Risk Management Framework and NIST guidance, including NIST SP 800-37, SP 800-53 and 800-53A, or systems security engineering concepts from NIST SP 800-160.- Experience translating security controls, policies, and customer requirements into allocated, traceable, and verifiable engineering requirements.- Experience developing and maintaining system security plans, security architecture descriptions, control implementation statements, risk assessments, assessment evidence, remediation plans, Plans of Action and Milestones, or continuous…