- Location
- Bethesda, MD
- Workplace
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Lead
- Education
- Bachelor
- Clearance
- Required
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- ApplyToJob
Description
cFocus Software seeks a Lead Security Systems Engineer to join our program supporting the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This position is fully remote. This position requires a Public Trust or the ability to obtain a public trust clearance.
Qualifications:
Duties:
Qualifications:
- Public Trust Clearance
- B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, or cybersecurity engineering.
- Experience supporting large federal IT environments.
- Experience implementing Zero Trust Architecture.
- Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments.
- Experience designing secure enterprise infrastructure.
- Experience supporting FISMA and RMF compliance activities.
Duties:
- Lead the engineering, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise security architectures supporting NIH mission systems.
- Provide technical leadership for security engineering initiatives across multiple operating environments.
- Develop secure architecture roadmaps supporting modernization and enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Review and approve engineering designs to ensure alignment with NIH cybersecurity standards.
- Engineer, implement, and maintain secure enterprise infrastructure supporting Windows, Linux, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Lead system engineering efforts for enterprise servers, virtualization platforms, storage, identity infrastructure, and supporting technologies.
- Develop secure baseline configurations using federal cybersecurity guidance.
- Design resilient and highly available system architectures.
- Support enterprise configuration management and lifecycle management activities
- Lead implementation of NIH Zero Trust Architecture initiatives.
- Design identity-centric security architectures utilizing least privilege principles.
- Implement continuous authentication and authorization capabilities.
- Support micro-segmentation, software-defined perimeters, and secure access technologies.
- Develop Zero Trust implementation strategies aligned with NIST SP 800-207.
- Engineer enterprise security controls protecting systems, networks, applications, and cloud environments.
- Integrate cybersecurity technologies into existing NIH infrastructure.
- Develop secure engineering standards and technical implementation procedures.
- Conduct architecture reviews and security engineering assessments.
- Support technology refresh and modernization initiatives.
- Design secure cloud architectures supporting Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, and hybrid environments.
- Implement cloud-native security controls.
- Support secure cloud migration initiatives.
- Engineer identity federation and secure cloud connectivity.
- Integrate cloud monitoring and security services.
Skills
AWSAzureLinuxCybersecurityCompliance
