Cybersecurity Systems Engineer

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Welcome to CAE!  We are excited to become a part of your professional journey and to help you discover a career that aligns with your values, experience, expertise, and aspirations!   As a leader in the defense and security industry, CAE’s team is passionate about simulation and training and developing the most sophisticated solutions to help our defense and security customers prepare for mission success.  With our people at the very heart of our organization, driving innovation and new technologies, we are committed to providing a work environment for employees in which they can thrive and one that values professional growth, teamwork, and engagement. 

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

We are currently seeking an ambitious systems engineering professional to help us continue our mission of excellence. This role is tailor-made for candidates who thrive on taking ownership of hard problems and driving innovative solutions, while working in a collaborative and supportive team environment. Our ideal candidate will possess a self-motivated and positive approach, a strong work ethic, and strategic big picture thinking skills. 

Technical responsibilities include: 

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to establish architecture content and develop solutions that achieve customer needs.   

• Have fundamental knowledge of Systems Engineering practices, network technologies, system development life cycles and methodologies, and insight into information technology infrastructure management/monitoring and applications  

• Provide analysis, design, development, implementation and security assessments to ensure compliance with JSIG/RMF Continuous Monitoring tools and processes.  

• Perform system-level analyses, determine and undertake necessary trade studies, define and allocate the functional requirements to subsystem. 

• Ensure all program requirements are met, program risks are identified and mitigated, and company processes are followed. 

• Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance, reliability, and security of the system including installing, upgrading, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration  

• Serve as a Cyber Security engineer (ISSE) supporting high-level technical and practical expertise  

Qualifications and Education Requirements  

• BS in Electrical Engineering, or other technical field or equivalent education and work experience 

• Minimum of 8 years systems experience 

• Experience supporting military or defense programs. 

• Proven experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST800-53  

• Experience in developing and maintaining security documentation, including SSPs, SARs, and POA&Ms  

• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management. 

• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict potential programmatic and technical risks. 

• Proven track record of building relationships, fostering collaboration and working cross-functionally with multidisciplinary teams. 

• Demonstrated experience interpreting customer needs into achievable requirements or capabilities. 

• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed in the last 5 years. 

• Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to the start of employment. 

• Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work and site travel (CONUS) 

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.  

Preferred Skills  

• Experience working in air-gapped, classified, or highly secure environments with no direct internet access 

• Experience using compliance and vulnerability assessment tools, including ACAS, Tenable, Nessus, SCAP, or HBSS 

• Monitoring and correlating data (e.g., logs, events, activity, etc.) from a variety of sources (e.g., Splunk, ELA, ePO, ESS, ACAS, etc.) to identify and mitigate threats, vulnerabilities and non-compliance. 

• Basic scripting for automation (Bash/Powershell) 

• Networking experience – TCP/IP, DNS, NetBIOS, switching, firewalls 

• Experience in Open Mission Systems/Universal Command and Control Interface (OMS/UCI). 

• Familiarity with open system architectures (ex: ASPN, CMOSS, PNTOS, JADC2). 

• Working knowledge of industry standards such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-704, for airworthiness, ARINC and RTCA standards are preferred. 

• Current Special Access Program (SAP) access. 

Salary Range: $144,300 - 176,300

Please note: The actual compensation rate is subject to the evaluation of the following factors (but not limited to): the candidate's work experience, qualifications, skills, internal equity, and market.

OTHER DUTIES   

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.   

CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including disability and protected veteran status, as defined under federal, state, or local laws.   

Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected]