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Mission Operations Cybersecurity Engineer

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Mission Operations Cybersecurity Engineer

Must be able to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance*

KBR is seeking an IT cybersecurity technical specialist as a Mission Operations Cybersecurity Engineer to join our team and support NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center under the Ground Systems & Mission Operations (GSMO-3) Contract. The specialist will join a multi-disciplined, integrated team of system administrators, network engineers, and IT security professionals.

The specialist will help maintain, establish, and operate a complete IT security program, including compliance, continuous monitoring, and system design. Working under the direction of a cybersecurity technical lead, this specialist will ensure technical controls are designed and implemented to reduce risk to an acceptable level and ensure appropriate system confidentiality, integrity, and availability according to Federal and NASA requirements.

The specialist must have strong technical skills, assisting engineers in security control implementation, assessing security controls, security monitoring, mitigating vulnerabilities, managing role-based access controls, reviewing security configuration, and generally ensuring NASA ground systems are appropriately protected.

They will investigate IT Security incidents and work with the Incident Response Team (IRT) for system forensics, diagnostics and/or malware tracking. The specialist will also discover, report, and mitigate vulnerabilities and respond to incidents as needed.

Additional Responsibilities:

· Follow Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) and Configuration Management documentation and suggest updates as appropriate

· Monitor security audit logs for signs of issues or vulnerabilities

· Participate in risk assessments, security controls assessments, and contingency plan tests

· Perform support activities associated with the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of IT systems

· Review results of Tenable Nessus scans and provide guidance to System Administrators for remediating vulnerabilities.

· Automate security tasks

· Perform security analysis of AWS accounts and ensure cloud migration activities have built-in security.

Required Education / Experience & Skills:

· Bachelor’s Degree

· 4+ years of related experience

· Extensive system admin experience with Windows Server and Linux operating systems

· Familiarity with security control standards (e.g. NIST 800-53, ISO/IEC 27000-series, PCI DSS, etc.

· Experience securing Linux and Windows operating systems

· Experience securing a variety of technologies including modern, legacy, and custom.

· Proven ability to research and problem solve both independently and within a team environment

· Must be able to comprehend and follow complex procedural documentation and guidance

· Perform compliance and risks analysis tasks to systems standards

· Strong interpersonal skills to work directly with client, teammates, business partners, end-users, and other stakeholders to review, validate and implement requirements.

· Demonstrated ability to work issues through to completion and resolve challenges independently.

Preferred certifications:

· CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional

· AWS technical certification (Security, Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, etc.)

Preferred Experience:

· Experience with commercial cloud computing (AWS, Azure, Google)

· Experience with Storage Area Networks (SANs), Fiber Channel, Fiber Connections, Cluster environment

· Experience with networks, firewalls, switches, Virtual Machines (VMs), virtual snapshots

· Experience with remote management tools, disk encryption, video surveillance systems, system backup solutions

· Experience with agile project management, and agile project management tools such as Jira

· Experience providing security in a NASA environment, including familiarity with NASA technical standards

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