Lead Discovery GmbH is hiring: Cybersecurity Engineer, Lead in Bedford

Spend your days applying your diverse cyber security technical skills to a wide variety of complex and unique challenges that make a direct impact to our sponsor’s mission.

This person will be part of a team that tackles cyber security engineering challenges and delivers solutions. In this role, the candidate will provide hands-on cyber security engineering analysis and system integration crossing multiple areas, such as firewalls, networks, and IDS / IPS. The candidate must be able to collaborate and work on multi-disciplinary teams.

The technical work areas include the architecture, analysis, and prototyping of cyber security technologies. The work will cover a variety of security areas, which may include:

• Cloud computing; mission assurance; secure configuration management; identity credential and access management; enterprise application integration; computer network defense; cross domain solutions; network / telecommunications security; and data security best practices.
• You will have the opportunity to make an impact on the United States Government decision making.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing technical expertise, engineering direction, and guidance across multiple projects to define systems, security, and data architectures.
• Assessment of technology solutions; and develop implementation and integration strategies to improve security operations and network defense.
• Perform independent assessments of selected information technologies, mission processing systems, and associated acquisitions.
• Recommend investments to enhance information security.
• Apply policy and governance for mission requirements, evaluate technical standards and advancements for improving enterprise-wide cyber security.
• Support the architecture, analysis, and prototyping of cyber security technologies.
• Participate in studies, prototypes, market surveys, and product evaluations to identify tools and methods to bridge existing gaps and introduce new capabilities to address evolving threats.
• Collaborate across government and industry to collect lessons learned, leverage best-of-breed tools and processes, and identify hard problem focus areas.
• Partner with government leadership and working groups to develop enterprise plans and roadmaps to support a “future view” of technologies for the IC.
• Knowledge of cross domain solutions, mobility, data security, identity credential and access management trends.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field, including but not limited to: Cyber Security, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, or related field and 8+ years applicable experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Must have TS/SCI clearance for consideration.
• Experience with computer network defense technologies used in the IC, DoD, and commercial domains.
• Knowledge of securing and protecting virtualized and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with government acquisition and system engineering processes.
• Familiarity with mobile app programming languages and scripting tools (e.g., Java, Python, C, C++).
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical decision-makers.
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team.
• Understanding of the Cyber Security new and emerging technologies and trends.
• Familiarity with system security engineering processes.
• Enthusiasm and a desire to learn and grow.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Familiarity with operational cyber concepts and objectives.
• Familiarity with composition of executables.
• Knowledge of virtualized and cloud environments.
• Ability to work independently and independently learn new technologies, languages, platforms, etc.
• Current DoD 8570 Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP)-approved certification.
• Experience engaging with senior government leaders.
• Understanding of, and experience in, the IC and DoD cybersecurity communities.
• Experience developing strategies and CONOPS.
• Strong interest in cybersecurity problems and advanced persistent threats, covering both operations and research.
• Experience with cyber threat indicators and prioritizing cyber threats.
• Superior customer engagement and communication skills.
• Experience writing requirements and operational concepts for government acquisitions.
• Experience with Splunk and other big data cyber tools.
• Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret.

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph.

Work Location Type:

Hybrid.

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