Job Type: Full-Time
Clearance: TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.
Job Summary
Castalia Systems is currently seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to join our team on an exciting program with one of our government customers. We are seeking a strong Cyber Security Engineer (CSE) OR Information Security Systems Engineer (ISSE) to assist in establishing, coordinating, and maintaining our cloud service provider (CSP) cyber security posture and perform risk analysis within the cloud security organization.
The organization manages security assessments, security compliance, change management, and continuous monitoring responsibilities across 5 cloud service providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud). The position requires a healthy mix of technical and policy knowledge. Our ideal candidate shall understand and have experience implementing services to intelligence community standards like ICD 503, NIST Risk Management Framework, and cloud technologies.
Roles and Responsibilities
A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:
- Multiple years’ relevant experience (minimum 5 years, 10+ years is strongly desired) in Cyber Security with a passion to learn in a fast-paced environment.
- The ability to analyze systems, including forensically, for malware, misuse, and/or unauthorized activity.
- Knowledge of investigation and analysis of all data sources, which may include Internet, Intelligence Community reporting, security events, firewall logs, forensic hard-drive images, and other data sources to identify malware, misuse, unauthorized activity or other Cyber Security related concerns.
- Knowledge of computing design concepts and implementation.
- Knowledge of network defense monitoring tools and systems.
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure cloud architecture or willingness to study independently to pick up expertise in one or many cloud vendors.
- Strong communication skills are required to engage with internal stakeholders and external stakeholders across intelligence community.
- Ability to conduct TEMs with cloud service providers on cyber security topics.
- Knowledge and experience of intelligence community security policies; relevant federal and private standards and requirements (e.g., ICD 503, CNSSI 1253, NIST SP 800-53).
- Experience working with a federal information security program and collaborating with Security Control Assessors (SCAs).
- Ability to understand and convey threats and impact of threats related to the results of a security assessment.
- Familiar with continuous monitoring requirements to include scan analysis for critical or high findings with common scan tools (e.g., Rapid 7, Nessus, Qualys).
- Experience with creating, monitoring, and closing system or service Plans Actions and Milestone items (POA&Ms).
- Experience with utilizing compliance tools to track Assessment and Authorization (A&A) activities (e.g. Xacta 360, Risk Vision, RSA Archer).
- Knowledge of common control provider concept within NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF).
Physical Requirements/ Work Environment
- Typical office environment.
Travel
Company Description
Castalia Systems is a proven business partner providing mission critical solutions to the Federal Government. We provide cutting edge solutions from Securing and Managing Data to Systems Engineering and Development. Castalia Systems is a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Design and Application.
With our vast knowledge of our customers needs and relevant technology, our team is able to bring successful solutions to every mission. We are one-upping our competitors by providing premium IT solutions and platforms with a cutting edge technology so it’s so evident when you compare us with anyone.
Disclaimer
Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.