Principal, Cyber Security Engineer

Ignite Digital, has an exciting opportunity for a Principal, Cyber Security Engineer in Charleston, SC to support our client engagements within the federal government. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with strong cybersecurity skills and a strong work ethic. This position serves an important role in supporting a DevSecOps software development program and producing business process improvements. The individual will implement state-of-the-art best cybersecurity practices to ensure software code meets rigorous security audits and testing.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, develop, and implement cybersecurity code review solutions within current business processes to optimize efficiencies in collaboration with software developers.
• Identify methods to collect, analyze, and manage data with the goal of making recommendations to accelerate the Risk Management Framework process within a DevSecOps environment.
• Conducts vulnerability testing and scanning, incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning and provides analytical support for security policy development and analysis.
• Evaluated incident response procedures and capabilities through Red Team exercises.
• Exploited system and network vulnerabilities and misconfigurations for the purpose of gathering data from target or adversary automated information systems or networks and to enable operations and intelligence collection capabilities.
• Monitored, analyzed, and detected Cyber events and incidents within information systems and networks.
• Planned, implemented, managed, monitored and upgraded security measures for the protection of the organizations data, systems and networks.
• Developed security assessment plans for systems, including the objectives, scope, schedule, required documentation, possible risks, and other logistical items for security assessments; developed cloud service provider testing approach from security perspective.
• Evaluate the performance and applicability of software code review tools against customer and client requirements
• Foster collaborative business relationships with stakeholders, business partners, and team members
• Assist in the training and development of the command workforce to increase the ability to produce secure software code

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ability to obtain a DoD security clearance
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Information Systems
• Fifteen (15) years in cyber security to include: Maintained the information security activities to preserve the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of information resources in compliance with applicable security policies and standards.
• Experience performing cybersecurity requirements definition, security risk assessment, systems analysis, systems design, security test and evaluation, certification and accreditation, and systems hardening.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Risk Management Framework (RMF)/ FedRAMP system certification.

• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and work independently and quickly transition to reassess priorities.
• Must have Security+ certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active DoD security clearance
• Knowledge of the system development life cycle, software project management approaches and requirements, design and test techniques including experience working in a DevOps/DevSecOps delivery environment
• Experience in mentoring/training/coaching others in technical concepts
• Adapts quickly to new situations, is willing to learn new technologies and works well in a team environment, leading individual projects without the need for supervision

*Ability to obtain a DoD Government Security Clearance is mandatory for this position*

Salary: $150k+ to align with education, certification, & experience