- Clearance Type: Secret
- Remote: No
- Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
- Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
Our staff at Elite Paradigm have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions that will affect people’s lives now and in the future. In order to collaborate to create the future and have fun while doing it, we seek out individuals with audacious new ideas, courage, and a pioneering attitude. Our culture is one that values intellectual vigor, cognitive diversity, and bringing your complete self to work.
To join our exceptional cyber security team in Atlanta, Georgia, we are now looking for a Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Security Engineer (Cybersecurity/Anti-Tamper Engineer) with Active Clearance. The ideal applicant will be involved in conceptualizing and architecting a secured missile armament system as part of one of our Advanced Programs. This job will require working closely with team members of various projects within the business as well as external partners and clients.
In this role, the selected candidate will (but not be limited to):
- Analyze customer’s concept of operations/employment and cyber security/anti-tamper requirements to propose, design, develop, and implement security/protection controls in compliance with government furnished implementation guides.
- Analyze existing missile system security architecture, identify and solve potential and actual security problems by architecting an updated system that is resistant to tampering and cyber-attacks using design techniques suggested in government furnished implementation guides.
- Implement security improvements/designs by assessing current situation; evaluating industry and Department of Defense (DoD) standards and trends; anticipating requirements.
- Maintain technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing publications.
- Develop technical documentation/publication to document trades studies, system designs, analysis, and results related to systems security.
- Develop standard and improvement processes for assessing, designing, implementing, and verifying security requirements.
- Support the development of the system security engineering team’s training plan for their development in knowledge and skills.
- Interface with inter-organizational management and external customers to communicate technical briefing and program status.
- Support bid proposals for systems security effort.
- Support Program Management activities to ensure cost and schedule objectives are met.
Basic qualifications for each level are listed below.
Basic qualifications for a Principal Systems Engineer level (T03) are:
- Bachelor of Science in an engineering/computer science discipline and a minimum of five (5) years of engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum two (2) years of cumulative experience in: cyber security/anti-tamper requirements development, security and cyber threat analysis, security systems engineering, cyber systems architecture development or cyber security policy development.
- Must have demonstrated experience in solving technical problems independently with minimal supervision.
Basic qualifications for a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer level (T04) are:
- Bachelor of Science in an engineering/computer science discipline and a minimum of nine (9) years of engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum three (3) years of cumulative experience in: cyber security/anti-tamper requirements development, security and cyber threat analysis, security systems engineering, cyber systems architecture development or cyber security policy development.
- Minimum five (5) years of cyber security/anti-tamper-related experience.
- Must have proven experience in communicating with all levels of peers, management and customers in a methodical, detailed and process-oriented fashion.
- Must have demonstrated experience in solving technical problems independently with minimal supervision.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with HP Fortify.
- Experience working in the defense industry or weapon system.
- Active DoD Secret Clearance with periodic reinvestigation within the last five (5) years.