Information Systems Security Engineer - Entry to Mid Level (Maryland)

Information System Security Professionals at NSA play a vital role in in the architecting, designing, operating, defending, and maintaining secure state of the art Information Technology (IT) systems executing NSA's SIGINT and Cybersecurity missions. NSA is advancing technology to deliver mission outcomes. As such, Cybersecurity Professionals have the opportunity to work across a broad set of technologies including commercial cloud fabrics, artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and advanced cryptographic systems. These personnel are involved in the full life cycle of systems: designing, maintaining and monitoring the systems so they can be protected from the most sophisticated nation-state adversaries. Some examples of tasks include: 

- Design system/network architectures to enforce levels of confidentiality, integrity and availability 

- Ability to implement systems engineering principles/methodology

 - Define and manage remediation plans across applications, infrastructure, and cloud

 - Ensure compliance with cybersecurity standards and regulatory requirements (e.g. NIST)

 - Assess and mitigate risks in legacy systems, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities

 - Analyze and prioritize vulnerabilities with cross functional teams

 - Lead and provide oversight to activities to patch and harden infrastructure systems 

- Define information system security requirements and functionality 

- Review security configuration options of cloud services and recommend security configurations

 - Understand cryptography and the ability to program (Python, Java, etc.) 

- Assess effectiveness of security solutions against cybersecurity frameworks (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK)

 - Monitor the cybersecurity hygiene for a family of IT systems directing remediation of configuration and vulnerability findings to reduce the adversary risks to systems 

- Understand concepts, principles, structure and standards used to design, implement, monitor and secure operating systems, equipment, networks, applications and controls

 - Operate within teams focused on implementing and evolving procedures and security settings designed to protect data and applications in cloud environments

 - Conduct security engineering/hardening of the latest operating systems, tailoring them for use in the specific mission area 

- Ability to implement automation and artificial intelligence across the RMF authorization life cycle and into continuous monitoring