Senior Principal Application Security Engr Devsecops – Ts/Sci

Senior Principal Application Security Engr Devsecops – Ts/Sci

Requirements

• Degree in STEM field
• 9 years IT security (Cybersecurity) experience in support of USG
• Must have U.S. Citizenship, with active TS/SCI clearance
• CISSP Certification
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering processes and milestones; understanding of the requirements analysis, decomposition, and allocation process
• Must have a commitment to working on-site, inside restricted office spaces.

Responsibilities

• Working as a small team leader to prioritize application security requirements within the CI/CD pipeline.
• Negotiating security responsibilities with external IAAS & PAAS providers for every layer of the technology stack between hardware and application layer.
• Deep understanding of virtualization technologies with emphasis on cloud computing environments, particularly AWS and/or OpenStack.
• Developing security-focused assessment procedures for application containers and container orchestration environments, such as Kubernetes is essential.
• Connecting systems and subsystems having different security classification levels using approved Cross Domain Solutions and/or Data Diodes.
• Leading Cyber/SSE element technical presentations during engineering milestone reviews – SRR, PDR, CDR, and PSR in accordance with our internal, NG Cyber Systems Engineering Standards document.
• Execute Cyber/Software Security Assurance processes to include ensuring Static Code Analysis (SCA) tools (e.g. Fortify, SonarQube) are integrated into ground software development environments; triage tool findings to prioritize remediation activities; allocate low priority findings as technical debt in the SwDLC backlog.
• Defining programmatic Cyber guidance to shepherd software development scrum teams on secure coding practices, security-focused engineering trade studies, and other security best practices for our mission unique software development efforts.
• Ensuring the multi-disciplinary team are remediating security tool findings by working with software developers, systems engineers, and other engineering disciplines to resolve technical and programmatic cybersecurity concerns.
• Understanding of Space/Ground interface control documents and security-relevant connectivity considerations at physical, electrical, and logical layers.
• Leading other Cyber/SSE personnel in the development of program CDRLs: RMF SSP including SCTM, RAR, POAMs and relevant artifacts (Incident Response Plan, Contingency Plan, ConMon Plan, as appropriate).
• Ensuring systems are operated, maintained, and disposed of in accordance with security policies and procedures as outlined in the system security authorization package (SSP, RAR, SCTM, ConMon Plan).
• Championing automation efforts across all DevSecOps disciplines to routinely accomplish SCAP compliance scans, vulnerability scans, container scans, developing and running security control Verification Procedures and automating manual STIG check lists.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7 years Cyber/SSE experience in the Defense Aerospace Industry
• CSSLP certification
• Experience working within restricted program areas
• Demonstrated engineering leadership experience participating in Systems Engineering milestone reviews, as the Application Security focal.