Staff Cyber Systems Engineer

2 months ago

Dulles, United States Northrop Grumman Full time

This Staff Cyber Systems Engineer position is for a Cyber Lead on a Ground Segment -focused program where the lead will provide Subject Matter Expertise for a new mission. The core goal is architecting, designing, and building security features into ground segment subsystems, components, and ground Mission-Unique Software. Prior knowledge and experience applying Cyber/Systems Security Engineering (Cyber/SSE) principles to complex systems in the early system development phase of the lifecycle is essential. The Cyber Lead is responsible for internal/external stakeholder coordination of Cyber/SSE requirements, development status, milestones, and deliverables. Exceptional customer intimacy skills are essential. Additionally, the Cyber lead coordinates multi-disciplinary activities across multiple overlapping threads and engineering specialties -- Ground Software Engineering, Cyber Software Security Assurance (C/SSA), Mission Software Integration, Systems Engineering, ISSM, ISSE, and ISSOs. The Cyber lead has primary oversight of a ISSE and C/SSA activities focused on Cyber CDRL development and Static and Dynamic security scanning of Ground Mission Unique Software. Implementing SECURITY into a DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline is part of the hands-on skills required for this position. As the Cyber Lead, strong technical qualifications are required with demonstrated leadership on complex development efforts.


Additional Responsibilities:

  • Working as a programmatic lead in a structured engineering environment, where the Cyber Lead may supervise and prioritize security requirements; identify driving requirements from Cyber Survivability/Resilience, Risk Management Framework (RMF), and/or System/Technical Requirements Document (SRD or TRD); and allocate Cyber/SSE requirements to segment/subsystem/component specifications.
  • Leading Cyber/SSE element technical presentations during engineering milestone reviews – SRR, PDR, CDR, and PSR in accordance with our internal, NG Cyber Systems Engineering Standards document.
  • As the Cyber/SSE thread-lead, project management experience is crucial, to include experience as a Cost Account Manager (CAM) within large programs required to use Earned Value Management System (EVMS).
  • Supervise C/SSA processes to include ensuring Static Code Analysis (SCA) tool(s) (e.g. Fortify) are integrated into ground software development environments; triage tools findings to prioritize remediation activities; allocate low priority findings as technical debt in the SwDLC backlog.
  • Defining programmatic Cyber guidance to shepherd software development scrum teams on secure coding practices, security-focused engineering trade studies, and other security best practices for our mission unique software development efforts.
  • Ensuring the multi-disciplinary team are remediating security tool findings by working with software developers, systems engineers, and other engineering disciplines to resolve technical and programmatic cybersecurity concerns. A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and productively with others is an essential skill, as well as distilling and communicating technical cyber backlog (POA&Ms) to internal & external leaders.
  • Understanding of Space/Ground interface control documents and security-relevant connectivity considerations at physical, electrical, and logical layers.
  • Mastery of RED/BLACK boundary definition, TEMPEST considerations, Crypto units, Cross Domain Solutions, and Controlled Interfaces within space systems.
  • Leading other Cyber/SSE personnel in the development of program CDRLs:
  • RMF SSP including SCTM, RAR, POAMs and relevant artifacts (Incident Response Plan, Contingency Plan, ConMon Plan, as appropriate).
  • Key & Certificate Management Plan (KCMP)
  • Program Protection Implementation Plan (PPIP) and Cybersecurity Strategy.
  • Ensuring systems are operated, maintained, and disposed of in accordance with security policies and procedures as outlined in the system security authorization package (SSP, RAR, SCTM, ConMon Plan).
  • Championing automation efforts across all DevSecOps disciplines to routinely accomplish SCAP SCANs, developing and running NIST 800-53a Verification Procedures and automating manual STIG check lists.


Basic Qualifications:

  • 14 years in a Bachelors Degree in STEM field; OR 12 years with a Masters; OR 9 years with a PhD. Experience can be considered in lieu of degree
  • 14 years IT security (Cybersecurity) experience in support of USG
  • 9 years technical leadership experience
  • Must have U.S. Citizenship, with active TS/SCI clearance
  • CISSP Certification
  • Familiarity with Systems Engineering processes and milestones; understanding of the requirements analysis, decomposition, and allocation process.
  • Must Have a Commitment to working on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 15 years Cyber/SSE experience in the Defense Aerospace Industry
  • 5 years experience working within restricted program areas
  • Formal EVMS project management training with CAM experience
  • Demonstrated engineering leadership experience participating in Systems Engineering milestone reviews, as the cybersecurity focal

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