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Sr. Information Assurance Engineer bei Nextgenfed

Nextgenfed · Aberdeen, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Onsite

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Become a key contributor to NextGen Federal Technologies’ Information System Security Engineering team, where you'll architect and engineer secure systems leveraging both established and emerging technologies. In close collaboration with government stakeholders, you’ll deliver comprehensive cybersecurity services and solutions to design, integrate, modernize, test, evaluate, and sustain mission-critical security capabilities—ensuring the advancement of enterprise cyber posture.


Responsibilities:
  • Execute full-spectrum security engineering activities including research, threat modeling, protocol analysis, architecture design, validation testing, and deployment of advanced network defense mechanisms to protect enterprise information systems and application infrastructure.
  • Support stakeholders in architecting and implementing tailored cybersecurity solutions across enterprise networks, VPN infrastructures, application platforms, PKI environments, authentication protocols, and directory services to ensure robust protection of sensitive data and system integrity.
  • Conduct scheduled network vulnerability scans to detect exploitable weaknesses, evaluate threat exposure, recommend mitigation strategies, and perform comprehensive risk assessments to ensure adherence to organizational security policies and industry standards.
  • Engineer enterprise and system-level security architectures across the full software development lifecycle, translating regulatory requirements, legal mandates, and environmental constraints into actionable security controls, design patterns, and operational processes.
  • Deliver expert security analysis and guidance to translate high-level security requirements and policy mandates into actionable technical controls, ensuring seamless integration into IT components and enterprise systems through intentional design and secure configuration.
  • Deliver security engineering expertise and strategic guidance to product managers, system owners, developers, and stakeholders, while ensuring alignment and coordination of security processes within departmental lifecycle management and governance frameworks.
  • Extensive hands-on experience in architecting secure systems for Department of Defense (DoD) environments, including both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructures. Proven expertise in securing development, testing, and deployment environments; performing system security engineering; and supporting ISSM/ISSO functions throughout the full Assessment and Authorization (A&A) lifecycle in compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards.
  • Design and integrate cybersecurity architectures for systems and networks supporting multilevel security (MLS) environments, enabling secure processing and segregation of data across multiple classification levels—including UNCLASSIFIED, SECRET, and TOP SECRET—within government and defense-related infrastructures.
  • Provide operational support and engineering for enterprise system environments, including maintenance, optimization, and enhancement activities, while delivering strategic recommendations for the selection and integration of advanced security technologies.


    • Required Qualifications:
  • US Citizen
  • Active TS/SCI + CI Poly clearance required
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree ( years of experience may be substituted for degree.
  • Engineer enterprise and system-level security architectures across the full software development lifecycle, translating regulatory requirements, legal mandates, and environmental constraints into actionable security controls, design patterns, and operational processes.
  • Deliver expert security analysis and guidance to translate high-level security requirements and policy mandates into actionable technical controls, ensuring seamless integration into IT components and enterprise systems through intentional design and secure configuration.
  • Deliver security engineering expertise and strategic guidance to product managers, system owners, developers, and stakeholders, while ensuring alignment and coordination of security processes within departmental lifecycle management and governance frameworks.
  • Extensive hands-on experience in architecting secure systems for Department of Defense (DoD) environments, including both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructures. Proven expertise in securing development, testing, and deployment environments; performing system security engineering; and supporting ISSM/ISSO functions throughout the full Assessment and Authorization (A&A) lifecycle in compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards.
  • Provide operational support and engineering for enterprise system environments, including maintenance, optimization, and enhancement activities, while delivering strategic recommendations for the selection and integration of advanced security technologies.


    • Desired Skills:
  • Ability to build trust and communicate with senior leadership
  • Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
  • Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
  • Design and integrate cybersecurity architectures for systems and networks supporting multilevel security (MLS) environments, enabling secure processing and segregation of data across multiple classification levels—including UNCLASSIFIED, SECRET, and TOP SECRET—within government and defense-related infrastructures.


    • About NextGen:
    NextGen Federal Systems is an innovative technology and professional services provider specializing in advanced software solutions and comprehensive mission and business support services. We work in close collaboration with our Customers to truly understand their business and mission goals. Our approach is to design, build, implement, and manage solutions that measurably improve our client’s organizational performance. We have established and foster a corporate culture where we:
    •Treat employees with fairness and respect regardless of their position, sexual identity, race, or tenure.
    •Communicate the importance of our mission and our employees’ contributions to it, ensuring they understand how their job role contributes to the greater good.
    •Openly promote and communicate our ideas for change and adaptability.
    •Strive to achieve results as an organization.
    •Hold employees accountable to their commitments and provide incentives that encourage positive and productive behaviors.
    •Value the talents and contributions of our employees as the key factor for our success.
    •Create an environment where people can engage at all levels.
    •Encourage people to take risks and allow them to make mistakes.

    Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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