USAF - ISSE in Linthicum Heights, Maryland at cFocus Software Incorporated

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cFocus Software Incorporated
Linthicum Heights, Maryland, 21090, United States
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Job Description

cFocus Software seeks a Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to join our program supporting the United States Air Force (USAF). This position is on-site in Linthicum Heights, MD. This position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance.
Qualifications:
  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
  • Experience implementing and validating security controls for enterprise systems and infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of RMF, authorization boundaries, control assessments, and compliance evidence.
  • Experience with STIGs, secure configurations, vulnerability analysis, and remediation validation.
  • Ability to engineer security across networks, operating systems, applications, and cloud services.
  • Experience with scripting, IaC/CaC, source control, and security integration in CI/CD workflows.
  • Experience configuring logging, monitoring, alerting, and security tool integrations.
  • Ability to document designs, test results, configurations, and remediation recommendations clearly.
  • Strong collaboration skills across architecture, cybersecurity, development, and operations teams
Duties:
  • Translate Government-approved security architecture, system requirements, and DoD compliance requirements into implementable technical controls and engineering tasks.
  • Implement and validate controls enforcing Government-defined authorization boundaries across assigned infrastructure, applications, and cloud services.
  • Engineer secure configurations for networks, servers, applications, and supporting services; evaluate proposed changes for security and integration impacts.
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts that apply Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and document system configurations and network diagrams from live environments.
  • Integrate Government-specified cybersecurity controls and security guardrails into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) using centralized repositories and approved baselines; support automated security evaluation before production deployment.
  • Configure and validate logging, monitoring, observability, and alerting across authorization boundaries in accordance with approved plans.
  • Analyze vulnerability and configuration assessment findings; recommend corrective actions, implement approved fixes, and verify remediation effectiveness.
  • Support security testing and assessments by defining technical validation steps, collecting evidence, and resolving identified engineering deficiencies.
  • Provide technical evidence, configuration records, test results, and monitoring data supporting Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authorization to Operate (ATO), Assess-Only Authorization, and continuous ATO (cATO) activities.
  • Support integration of Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) capabilities and Government-approved cross-domain solutions within assigned security architecture and impact levels.
  • Coordinate system-level findings and remediation status with ISSOs and the ISSM; supply engineering analysis for Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) and risk recommendations.
  • Support incident response through approved technical procedures, log analysis, control corrections, and directed recovery or remediation activities.
  • Maintain design and as-built documentation, configuration traceability, and implementation procedures; recommend improvements to security automation and monitoring.

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Linthicum Heights, Maryland, 21090, United States

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