Senior Security Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

1 Accord Consulting, LLC is a growing information and technology business founded on the basic principle of delivering customer mission success, while providing flexibility to maintain a work life balance. We hire the best, most driven, and talented people to help us support all our customers.  With certified experts consulting our clients, we can address the customer’s mission.

Senior Security Engineer

Required Qualifications:

• AD (+10) years of relevant experience
• BA/BD (+6) years of relevant experience
• Master's degree (+4) years of relevant experience, or PHD (+2) years of relevant experience
• Must have one of the following DoD approved certifications to meet the category/level IAT-2 (DD 8570) requirement for this position: Security+, GSEC, SSCP, CCNA-Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), CASP, GCIH, or GCED
• Required Education & Experience: High School/GED (+12) years of relevant experience
• AD (+10) years of relevant experience
• BA/BD (+6) years of relevant experience
• Master's degree (+4) years of relevant experience, or PHD (+2) years of relevant experience
• Job Stipulations: Top secret Clearance with Polygraph
• Must have one of the following DoD approved certifications to meet the category/level IAT-2 (DoD 8570) requirement for this position: Security+, GSEC, SSCP, CCNA-Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), CASP, GCIH, or GCED

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide support for a program, organization, system, or enclave’s information assurance program
• Provide support for proposing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies
• Maintain operational security posture for an information system or program to ensure information systems security policies, standards, and procedures are established and followed
• Assist with the management of security aspects of the information system and performs day-to-day security operations of the system
• Evaluate security solutions to ensure they meet security requirements for processing classified information
• Perform vulnerability/risk assessment analysis to support certification and accreditation
• Provide configuration management for information system security software, hardware, and firmware
• Manage changes to system and assesses the security impact of those changes
• Prepares and reviews documentation to include System Security Plans (SSPs), Risk Assessment Reports, C&A packages, and SRTMs
• Audit reduction tools (SEAR, SPLUNK)
• Provide identification and fixing of problems within existing systems, design, and implementation of new systems and enhancement of existing systems
• Participates in analysis, design, and new construction of next generation IT systems
• Responsible for understanding the needs of the customers and the realities of commercially available IT products and creating requirements that will allow implementation by the development team
• Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of a work products in Technical Process Area associated with the ISO/IEC 15288
• Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of multiple work products in
• Perform analysis of technical alternatives for a project and make preliminary recommendations
• Independently analyze and recommend alternatives for elements of project’s technical designs
• Supervise or coordinate the work of other contractor engineers or technicians on a project
• Analyze and propose appropriate engineering standards and process for a project
• Assist in conducting an evaluation to determine its suitability for project implementation
• Assist in developing a new or innovative approach to a technical or engineering issue

1 Accord Consulting is a high-level engineering company providing a collaborative environment focused on technical excellence and meaningful contributions.