Information Systems Security Engineer

About

The Office of Space Weather Observations (SWO) under NESDIS is responsible for advancing space weather observational capabilities to meet NOAA programmatic needs. NOAA’s Space Weather Next (SWX) program maintains and extends space weather observations from various vantage points, selected to most efficiently provide comprehensive knowledge of the Sun and the near-Earth space environment needed to protect our technological infrastructure.

The Space Weather Ground Services (SWGS) is responsible for comprehensive ground services for all SWX projects, ensuring successful implementation and operation of observing assets and ensuring the continuity of space weather measurements made by SWFO-L1 and the GOES-R series satellites.

The SWGS Mission Operations Services (MOS) program must provide a full mission satellite command and control solution to support the L1 Series with two new independently launched observatories.

Overview

Peraton is seeking an Information Systems Security Engineer to support cybersecurity activities across a new satellite ground system development program supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This position will support all cybersecurity and information assurance activities throughout the full system lifecycle—from architecture and design through integration, assessment, authorization, operational deployment and continuous monitoring.

The selected candidate will be responsible for supporting the program’s cybersecurity function, ensuring compliance with federal security requirements, and implementation of secure architecture, controls, and processes for a FISMA High-impact system. This role requires close collaboration with other program functional elements including Systems Engineering Integration and Test (SEIT), Software Engineering, Networks, Infrastructure, Architecture, Operations, Quality and program leadership to ensure cybersecurity is fully integrated into system design and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensures system security needs are established and maintained for operations development, security requirements definition, security risk assessment, systems analysis, systems design, security test and evaluation, assessment and authorization, systems hardening, vulnerability testing and scanning, incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Develops and maintains security documentation to include System Security Plan (SSP), FIPS 199, FIPS 200 and other associated compliance documentation
• Provides analytical support for security policy development and analysis.
• May interface with external entities including law enforcement, intelligence and other government organizations and agencies.
• Support in A&A assessments, ATO authorizations, security documentation, and regular scans/tests/patches.
• Support the NOAA cyber security mission by building, configuring, troubleshooting, and updating the network security capabilities that protect NOAA core networks and information.
• Monitor network connectivity and ensure high quality data transmission using standard network tools.

This position is contingent on contract award.

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