Remote Lead Cybersecurity Engineer (Supporting Hawaii Standard Time)

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

 

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2022 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company's commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

 

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

 

• Identifies security issues and risks, and develops mitigation plans
• Architects, designs, implements, supports and evaluates security-focused tools and services including project leadership roles
• Develops and interprets security policies and procedures
• Participates in security compliance efforts (e.g., PCIDSS, SOX)
• Develops and delivers training materials and performs general security awareness and specific security technology training
• Performs acquisition and vendor risk assessment due diligence
• Evaluates and recommends new and emerging security products and technologies
• Participates in Tier 2 and Tier 3 security operations support
• Participates in incident handling
• Participates in projects that develop new intellectual property
• Evangelizes security within Company and will be an advocate for customer trust
• Mentors junior members of the team
• Provides technical support to divisions and branches developing security architecture and supporting design and implementation of information technology security systems
• Supports research of new security products and services and supports the rollout of enterprise security solutions that leverage single Department-wide license agreements with new or existing vendors and service providers
• Leads developing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-wide information security capabilities
• Analyzes the enterprise business models and IT systems to determine security risks and risk management considerations
• Defines enterprise- and system-level security requirements
• Proposes technical solutions for systems and applications-level security architecture and design
• Develops security plans, policies and procedures

Qualifications

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent related experience

  

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 10 - 15 Years
• 5 years of experience (within the last 7 years) with DoD Information Systems Security and/or Cybersecurity.
• 5 years experience (within the last 7 years) as a Systems or Network Engineer in a production environment.
• 5 years experience (within the last 7 years) creating RMF packages, entering the data into eMASS to obtain a ATO/ATC through NETCOM including all the ancillary artifacts
• Active DOD Secret Clearance

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

 

• Experience as an Information System Security Manager (ISSM), Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE), and/or Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO).
• Experience in coordinating and conducting a Security Control Assessment - Validation.
• 5 years of experience maintaining and managing client interface at the senior levels of the client organization.
• Professional Computing Environment Certification

 

 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

 

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• Sitting for long periods
• Standing for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
• Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to 50 pounds
• Travel by land or air transportation 25-50 %

 

About Empower AI

It is the policy of Empower AI to provide equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations. In addition, we affirm that all compensation, benefits, company-sponsored training, educational assistance, social, and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our firm intent to support equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in keeping with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.  Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

 

Employment Type: FULL_TIME