NIH Lead Security Systems Engineer


Job Location:

Bethesda, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 2 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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:
  • 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.

Required Experience:

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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:Public Trust ClearanceB.S. Computer Sci...

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