Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer will support the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Office of Information Technology, Technology Solutions Division (TSD), specifically their mission critical systems.

Your Impact to the Mission: As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer you will leverage technical knowledge and experience to support and lead the security initiative for multiple IT projects, programs, and initiatives. You will be responsible for working with a team of security engineers and actively interacting and communicating with various departments, teams, and workgroups to provide hands-on technical cybersecurity support on potential security risks and recommendations. You will be interacting with technical staff to executive staff, adjusting the communication and feedback accordingly. The Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer will be responsible for:

Supporting the response for planned and unplanned security assessments including documentation collection and review, documentation creation and maintenance, and artifact/evidence review and validation.

Analyzing and investigating potential security threats against technologies in use as well as those planned for future use.

Performing an ongoing review of industry/government best practices for system security to provide expert technical guidance for translating NIST, DHS, and TSA cybersecurity standards, policies and procedures into actionable tasks.

Determining the security impact of new technologies or policies on the TSA information security program.

Developing and presenting recommendations for changes to improve security posture.

Implementing security improvements as needed for protecting mission critical systems.

Leveraging existing government-provided security scan tools such as Tenable Security Center, Nessus, DbProtect, Venafi, Burp Suite Pro and others.

Providing security engineering subject matter expertise in coordination with enterprise architecture and technical review boards.

Developing and maintaining information security program strategic and tactical goals and objectives and program outreach/communication plans.