Cyber Engineer SME - Blackstone Talent Group

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Product Security Engineer to join our Client's team.

Position Responsibilities:

• This position is responsible for ensuring that the developed system realizes the architecture, requirements and technical baseline.
• This Cyber SME will represent the program from a Cyber perspective in assorted Senior meetings, Conferences and Program Milestones with both Program and Customer Leadership.
• This position will be pivotal in providing a forward look at the Cybersecurity strategy across multiple task orders for the C2BMC Program.
• The Cybersecurity SME will work closely with the Chief Engineer and Chief Architect.
• Documenting lessons learned, best security engineering practices, and industry standards will be required in daily tasks.
• Responsible for working with program Operations leadership to mature cyber operations and protection measures. 

Experience Required:

• The Cybersecurity SME must have experience in analyzing design constraints, trade-offs, and detailed system and security designs to identify necessary lifecycle support.
• Apply security policies to applications that interface with one another.
• Assess the effectiveness of information protection measures utilized by system(s).
• Assess threats to and vulnerabilities of computer system(s) to develop a security risk profile.
• Build, test, and modify product prototypes using working or theoretical models.
• Conduct assessments of the application\'s security design for the appropriate security controls, which protect the confidentiality and integrity Information.
• Integrate information assurance (IA) or IA-enabled products.
• Design and develop secure interface specifications between interconnected systems.
• Design, develop, integrate, and update system security measures (including policies and requirements) that provide confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
• Design hardware, operating systems, and software applications to adequately address information assurance (IA) security requirements.
• Design or integrate appropriate data backup capabilities into overall system designs, and ensure appropriate technical and procedural processes exist for secure system backups and protected storage of backup data.
• Design to minimum security requirements to ensure requirements are met for all systems and/or applications.
• Develop architectures or system components consistent with technical specifications.
• Develop detailed security design documentation for component and interface specifications to support system design and development.
• Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan the development of a new application or modification of an existing application.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

Technical Skill Required:

• Strong Cybersecurity background to include knowledge of the following: Identity and Access Management methodologies, encryption algorithms, cryptology, database and enterprise information security architecture.
• Proficiency in the implementation of information assurance (IA) principles and requirements relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
• Experience in cybersecurity requirements evaluation and validation.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity systems engineering principles.
• Familiarity with network protocols (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol [TCP/IP], Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol [DHCP]) and directory services (e.g., Domain Name System [DNS]).
• Knowledge of STIG application and hardening operating systems.
• Knowledge of Cyber technologies (e.g., HBSS, ArcSight, ACAS, etc.) and how they impact a mission system.
• Experience in Cyber threat assessment and risk management of a mission system.
• Knowledge of cyber operations and operational impacts. 

Education required:

• Expert, authority in discipline typically with an advanced degree and 12+ years experience or bachelors with 14+ years experience or equivalent; applies advanced concepts, theories, and principles and contributes toward the development of new principles and concepts; works unusually complex problems with consultative direction; erroneous decisions would normally result in failure to achieve goals critical to major organizational objectives and damage the image of the organization’s technological capability; advises top management and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications; managerial/leadership experience or necessary skills.
• Required - DoDI 8570 certification IASAE - Level II (e.g., CISSP). 

Security Clearance Required: Secret

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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