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Jobright.ai The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) is building a state-of-the-art cybersecurity program. The Cybersecurity Engineer III is responsible for determining system security requirements, designing security architecture, and conducting penetration testing to ensure the security of systems and networks. Responsibilities: • Performs senior level systems security engineering activities in accordance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-16. Serves as a liaison between the security architect and authorizing official and coordinates with system owners, common control providers, and system security officers on the design and allocation of security controls as system-specific, hybrid, or common controls. Ensures that systems and networks are developed and deployed securely, leveraging best industry standards and a thorough understanding of both security and enterprise architecture. • As a senior level engineer, employs the best practices when implementing security controls within a system including software engineering methodologies; system and security engineering principles; secure design, secure architecture, and secure coding techniques. Manages the determination of the protection needs (i.e., security controls) for the information system(s) and network(s) and documents appropriately. • Conducts senior level software and systems engineering and software systems research to develop new capabilities, ensuring cybersecurity is fully integrated. Also, manages the conduction of comprehensive technology research to evaluate potential vulnerabilities in cyberspace systems. • Provides senior level support for processes which ensure that the stakeholder security requirements necessary to protect the organization¿s mission and business processes are adequately addressed in all aspects of enterprise architecture including reference models, segment and solution architectures, and the resulting systems supporting those missions and business processes. • Provides senior level support for the documentation process and addresses WMATA's information security, cybersecurity architecture, and systems security engineering requirements throughout the acquisition life cycle. Collaborates with development organizations to create and deploy the tools needed to achieve objectives. • Provides senior level analysis of internal operational architecture, tools, and procedures to improve performance. Ensures that the Authority has the most effective suite of tools and procedures to drive organizational success. • Provides senior level support that identifies and/or develops reverse engineering tools to enhance capabilities and detect vulnerabilities. Ensures that vulnerabilities are identified as early as possible and mitigated. • Provides senior level support of authorized penetration testing on enterprise network assets. Performs penetration testing as required for new or updated applications. Exploits network devices, security devices, terminals and/or environments using various methods or tools. • Provides senior level support of defensive and simulated offensive measures, techniques and information collected from a variety of sources to identify, analyze, and report events that occur or might occur within the network to protect information, information systems, and networks from threats. • Provides senior level support of incident response support functions through technical activities that gather evidence on criminal or foreign intelligence entities to mitigate possible or real-time threats, protect against insider threats, foreign sabotage, international terrorist activities, or to support other intelligence activities. Ensures that the organization can respond to attacks quickly and eliminate threats. • Provides senior level support of the research, deployment, configuration and maintenance processes for network monitoring, defensive and administrative cybersecurity tools. Develops content for cyber defense tools. Identifies potential conflicts with implementation of any cyber defense tools (e.g., tool and signature testing and optimization). Ensures that the Authority has the most effective suite of tools and procedures to drive organizational success. • Provides senior level program support involved in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave. • Provides senior level support regarding the identification and development of reverse engineering tools to enhance capabilities and detect vulnerabilities. Qualifications: Required: • A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Management or a similar technical computer or cybersecurity engineering degree • Four (4) years of experience as a cybersecurity engineer or Information System Security Engineer/Officer (ISSO/ISSE), having supported cybersecurity engineering and/or penetration testing Company: Ready to take on a new career in transit? Metro is the “Employer of Choice” in the region for people that are passionate about mobility, business development, regional connectivity and tourism. Founded in 1967, the company is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Seniority level

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