Zero Trust Cyber Systems Engineer

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to be at the center of GDIT’s business operations. Make an impact by collaborating across functions to make mission success achievable.

Job Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Zero Trust (ZT) Cyber Systems Engineer with GDIT. A career in systems engineering means creating, designing, and implementing the systems that matter most. We’re seeking a highly skilled systems engineer who has technical expertise and wants to expand their business knowledge by implementing strategies, evaluating products, and delivering solutions that support the needs of our customers. In this role, the ZT Cyber Systems Engineer works with capture and pursuit teams to understand customer needs and gather requirements to support GDIT's solution implementation and planning. You will align customer technical needs to existing solutions formulated under GDIT’s Zero Trust digital accelerator against applicable GDIT Division requirements or apply, package and hand tailor these solutions for reuse while defining further investments to meet GDIT customer and future opportunity needs. For pre-sales engineering and future business investment needs, you will formulate and develop simple prototypes consisting of tailored commercial product configurations, reuse of proven GDIT solutions (both commercial and custom), and/or develop unique API coding. Prototype work will require you to design, develop, and integrate complex work systems; you will advocate long-term technical vision and mature the prototypes to a high standard for the demonstration of the new capabilities to our internal and government clients. The goal is to communicate and achieve the successful adaptation of Zero Trust investment across all GDIT divisions (Defense, Intelligence & Homeland, Federal Civilian, and Federal Health) to support new GDIT opportunities and support technology insertion and Zero Trust expertise. At GDIT you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how our customers operate.

HOW A CYBER SYSTEMS ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Configure infrastructure software products to meet mission and ZT security requirements in lab environments and/or customer environments
• Proactively identify issues and implement solutions for resolution
• Gather business, technical, and operational requirements for technical solutions
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configurations, mapping, processes, and capabilities
• Develop roadmaps and recommendations to drive client briefings/demonstrations of Zero Trust security and mission enabled features
• Collaborate with stakeholders to formulate prototypes and design documentation customizations for the demonstrations of pursuit team needs
• Work with the acquisition (e.g., Business Development, Capture, Solutions) community to shape acquisitions with Zero Trust capabilities
• Participate in consultative selling opportunities driving key win strategies
• Conduct regular status and strategy meetings with key personnel to help comprehend their program needs and while linking them to the organizational ZT solutions
• Help shape the marketing message to reflect enterprise-wide ZT
• Gather high level requirements and translate them into consumable tasks
• Promote modern methodologies to increase efficiency and consistency
• Contribute and be an advocate for long-term technical vision

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
● Education: BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technology field. An additional four years of work experience may be substituted for education.

● Required Experience: 12+ years related technical experience to include the following abilities to:

● Required Technical Skills:

• Collaborate with stakeholders and business opportunity leads to understand business challenges, translating them into high impact CONOPS definition technical architecture/feature demonstrations/pilots.
• Knowledge and expertise of at least one or more Zero Trust Models (e.g., NIST, CISA, DOD, Forrester, etc.)
• Gather high level requirements and translate them into system requirements and align with ZT architecture, creating technical documentation including diagrams
• Collaborate with stakeholders to formulate prototypes and design documentation customization for demonstrations to meet pursuit leads needs
• Ensure consistent implementations are identified and implemented aligned to customer objectives and defined architecture in accordance with ZT security requirements
• Configure infrastructure software products to meet mission and ZT security requirements in lab and/or customer environments while documenting system configurations
• Demonstrate experience working with government entities at the federal level
• Attend and document meetings with stakeholders while tracking actions for support, development, and reachback
• Support outreach activities to inform, educate, and interact with key customers, and client-facing GDIT organizational components
• Understand the Implementation of zero-trust practices across the whole stack

● Security Clearance Level: Secret clearance required to start
● Preferred Skills:

• Awareness of NIST SP 800 series guidance (e.g., 800-207, 800-53, 800-171, 800-160, etc.)
• Possess familiarity with NIST cyber publications, ZT Architecture, Maturity Models and Technical Reference Architectures (Both Defense and CISA Strategies)
• Identify key themes for stakeholders that enable faster and smarter business processes through ZT solutioning and promote modern methodologies that increase efficiency and consistency
• Strong analytical and presentation skills with the ability to predict challenges and develop proactive solutions
• Experience with user capabilities such as understanding the user perspective, user research, and story development
• Knowledge of digital modernization and implementation strategies

● Location: Hybrid to Falls Church, VA three days per week in office
● US Citizenship Required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
● 401K with company match
● Comprehensive health and wellness packages
● Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
● Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
● Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
● Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

10 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

None

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required