Cyber Security Engineer IV

Cyber Security Engineer IV

Caribou Thunder

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Requisition#: NC10000

Date Posted: 7/12/2023

Salary: $165K-$185K

Security Clearance: Secret with the ability to obtain TS/SCI

Education: Bachelor’s degree

Experience: 9 years

(7 years with a Master’s degree)

Position Summary

Caribou Thunder is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cyber Security Engineer IV to join our dynamic Cyber engineering team. As a Cyber Security Engineer IV, you will be an integral part of the team responsible for designing, developing, documenting, testing, and maintaining full-spectrum cyber solutions. This position requires a hands-on, solutions-oriented mindset, advanced technical knowledge, and proficiency in various cybersecurity tools and technologies.

Complete Description

As a Cyber Security Engineer IV, you will provide technical leadership and support modifications related to the design and accreditation of new mission capabilities, ensuring compliance with DoD cybersecurity requirements, policies, and procedures.

• Participate within an Agile environment, meeting in regular scrums, and developing stories to move the cyber posture forward.
• Establish/adhere to strict program control processes to ensure mitigation of risks and supports obtaining Assessment and Authorization (A&A) of systems.
• Support program test milestones through pre-test preparations, participating in the tests, analysis of the results, and preparation of required artifacts supporting authorization.
• Assist the program test team in identifying where cybersecurity requirements may be inhibiting mission requirements and develop/recommend solutions that balance the overall risk to the system and mission requirements.
• Assist in the implementation of the required government policy (i.e., NIPSOM, NIST), making recommendations on process tailoring, participating in and documenting process activities.
• Perform assessments of non-technical Risk Management Framework (RMF) artifacts received as Government Furnished information (GFI), identify where those artifacts deviate RMF control requirements, and draft Deficiency Reports (DR).
• Manage/Perform “lock-down” of systems to include STIG settings, patch updates, Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA), Information Assurance Vulnerability Bulletins (IAVB), Time Compliance Network Orders (TCNO), and Time Compliance Technical Orders (TCTO).
• Perform analysis to validate established cybersecurity controls and requirements and recommend cybersecurity safeguards.
• Oversee/prepare/update eMASS Test Results (TR), Authorization Boundary Diagrams (ABD), Network Topologies, Flow-diagrams, Hardware and Software listings, Ports, Protocols, and Services Management documentation, and Plan of Actions and Milestones (POAM) supporting regular updates to eMASS packages and continuous monitoring activities.

Minimum Requirements

• Current CISSP certification (or other DoD Approved 8570 Baseline; IAM Level II)
• Security engineering skills with a thorough understanding of routing and switching, firewalls, IP, timing sources, and other cybersecurity technologies
• Understanding and application of OCD/federal cybersecurity policy (i.e., DoDI 8500.01, NIST SP 800-53, etc.)
• Thorough knowledge and experience working with enterprise Mission Assurance support service
• Thorough understanding and previous experience working in an Agile framework

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with Software Assurance (SA) static and dynamic code analysis
• Experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions (e.g., QRadar/LogRhythm)
• Experience with Host eased security system (H3SS)
• Experience with Windows and Linux servers

Company Description

Caribou Thunder, LLC is a Woman Owned, HUBZone Certified, Native American Owned, SBA and SDB Certified global engineering services company, incorporated in 2006.

Caribou Thunder is a Global Service Provider supporting a wide variety of DoD, Space, and Intelligence programs with consistent growth since inception to over 100 associates and $10M in annual sales with solid performance in 35 states across the U.S. and 22 countries around the world. Caribou Thunder, LLC is an established Defense contractor with nearly 20 years of experience delivering engineering services worldwide. We offer industry leading salaries, flexible work life balance, full range of benefits (career development and mentoring, PTO, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401k match). Caribou Thunder, LLC offers meaningful career opportunities within a true team-based environment, where each and every employee matters, contributing to a higher goal supporting National Security programs. 

Caribou Thunder, LLC is committed to hiring and maintaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. United States citizenship is a requirement for all positions.

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