Senior Specialist, Information Security Systems Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Palm Bay, Florida, or Rochester, New York; 100% onsite in a lab environment with no remote option.

Salary: $92,500–$171,500 annually for the New York state role.

Company

hirify.global develops defense technology and end-to-end solutions across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains for national security missions.

What you will do

• Apply Systems Security Engineering methods across system architecture, design, development, evaluation, integration, testing, and maintenance.
• Lead security engineering throughout the system development lifecycle and define requirements, trade studies, costs, implementation approaches, and system impacts.
• Assess Critical Program Information, threats, countermeasures, vulnerabilities, and security and privacy controls for embedded systems.
• Develop Program Protection Plans, Cybersecurity Strategies, Security Classification Guides, System Security Engineering Plans, and RMF evidence packages.
• Support RMF accreditation and authorization, Platform IT accreditation, security testing, verification and validation, vulnerability response, and security architecture improvement projects.
• Represent program security requirements in customer meetings and collaborate with government customers, internal program teams, vendors, and leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience, or a graduate degree and at least 4 years of related experience; 10 years of related experience may substitute for a degree.
• Minimum Collateral Secret security clearance required.
• Program Protection and Systems Security Engineering experience, including accreditation activities and System Security Engineering across the system development lifecycle.
• Experience with DoD 5200.39, CPI identification and protection, NIST 800-160, RMF A&A steps 1–4, and Body of Evidence package development.
• Experience with Platform IT RMF accreditation, NIST 800-53 control assessment, and DoD software selection and approval for COTS, GOTS, and FOSS.
• Experience developing security requirements, designs, tests, configuration management, policies, procedures, and information-system maintenance activities.
• Experience with security testing and verification, vulnerability assessment, and evaluation of security architecture and vulnerability-response projects.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD 8140 or NIST 800-181 certification appropriate for the position within 6 months of starting.
• Security clearance eligibility requires U.S. citizenship.

Nice to have

• RMF A&A for embedded systems and High Assurance Device certification experience.
• ACAS, SCC, cyber defense, vulnerability assessment, Splunk or other SIEM/audit reduction tools.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering, NSA Type 1 certification, NSA High Assurance products, IASRD requirements, DISA SRGs, and STIGs.
• Windows and Linux system administration, CI/CD, agile system development, DevSecOps, and understanding of system vulnerabilities and exploitation.
• DOD 8140 IASAE certification and strong knowledge of engineering and information security systems engineering principles.

Culture & Benefits

• 9/80 schedule: work 9 of every 14 days for 80 hours, with every other Friday off.
• Benefits include health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
• Benefits and program availability may vary by hire date, schedule type, and collective bargaining agreement.
• Employment includes pre-employment substance-abuse testing and background checks where permitted by law.

Hiring process

• Applicants may undergo government security investigations and must meet eligibility requirements for classified-information access.
• Submitting a resume authorizes hirify.global to share it and related application information with subsidiaries and affiliated companies for consideration for other positions.