Cybersecurity Engineer

Job Description: Cybersecurity Engineer

Advance your career while impacting national security as a Cybersecurity Engineer at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). Technologists at GDIT have diverse paths to meaningful careers supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government.

As a Cybersecurity Engineer, your work at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our client, the Division of Federal Systems (DFS) for the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). You will play a crucial role in:

• Conducting and coordinating security reviews and audits of federal and non-federal data exchange partners accessing or hosting OCSE data.
• Providing security engineering support to the Security Team in responding to external audits, including preparing audit responses and coordinating with external auditors.
• Offering security engineering expertise and guidance to design and development teams for compliance with Federal mandates, OMB, NIST, and HHS/ACF/FPLS security requirements.
• Participating in routine and on-demand system and application vulnerability scanning, documenting findings, and presenting analysis to stakeholders.
• Engaging in continuous monitoring of FPLS systems and applications, supporting the security authorization process through the system development life cycle, risk assessments, and vulnerability testing.
• Documenting and tracking internal Plans of Action and Milestones (POAMs) for DFS systems and applications.
• Assisting in the development and delivery of Security Awareness Training.
• Providing security engineering support for incident response activities, including analyzing security events, assessing technical impact, and implementing corrective measures.
• Supporting security engineering efforts by integrating information security policies into network and system design and promoting user awareness.
• Promoting organizational security awareness by researching emerging threats and supporting the publication of security alerts.
• Developing policies and procedures to ensure information systems reliability, accessibility, and defense against unauthorized access.

Required Skills:

• At least 2 years of professional work experience in a cybersecurity role.
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of Information Assurance across various specialties, including Internet and Intranet Applications, Authentication, and comprehensive Security domains (Physical, Personnel, Network, Computer, Information, Operational, Administrative, Communications).
• Experience managing multiple tasks simultaneously and working independently in high-stress environments, with a customer service orientation.
• Strong background in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), particularly with security agreements and regulatory recertifications.
• Expertise in multi-stakeholder collaboration, providing advisory assistance for data protection and cloud modernization.
• Experience developing and standardizing security assessment frameworks and documentation.
• Strategic capability in sustaining enterprise-wide security posture through proactive planning and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated expertise in conducting risk and vulnerability assessments, supporting security audits, compliance reviews, and partner/contractor site security assessments.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; a writing sample will be requested.

Desired Skills:

• Security or IT certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISA).
• Knowledge of cloud computing and web application vulnerability scanning tools such as IBM AppScan.
• Familiarity with the Child Support Enforcement program and system operations.
• Experience handling sensitive data sources and distribution of personally identifiable information.

Key skills/competency

• Cybersecurity
• Information Assurance
• Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Incident Response
• Security Audits
• NIST Guidelines
• Cloud Security
• Data Protection
• Policy Development