Cybersecurity Architecture - Leadership
- Washington DC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leading the Department's security architecture strategy to address vulnerabilities and maintain and improve data availability, confidentiality, and integrity.
- Assisting DHS senior leaders with decision-making and actions related to the design and implementation of enterprise cybersecurity.
- Providing system security consultation, engineering, and architecture to Department system owners and developers, and maintaining security process coordination within the Department's lifecycle management and governance processes.
- Collaborating with internal and external DHS stakeholders to budget for, architect, design, implement, maintain, and operate information system security controls and countermeasures, including designing and developing new cybersecurity tools/technologies.
- Overseeing the development and maintenance of technical security configuration baselines that are minimally acceptable for use across the Department.
- Leading efforts to research and evaluate available technologies and standards to meet customer requirements and employ security capabilities in cloud environments.
- Reviewing security and privacy requirements to determine system needs and translating those requirements into secure technical and operational specifications.
- Leading security risk assessments, gap analyses, and business impact analyses to detect system weaknesses, identify the depth and breadth of needed security controls, and make targeted recommendations to address issues and mitigate risks.
- Overseeing efforts to design and evaluate networks and/or software that are secure from known and perceived methods of cyber-attack on all elements including but not limited to wired and wireless elements, Cloud-based, and virtual environments incorporating secure controls.
- Providing oversight of systems testing and evaluation and test case development and mapping.
- Developing objectives and criteria for testing program.
- Approving and evaluating testing frameworks.
- Validating and ensuring completion of contingency planning.
- Advocating for or developing policy supports new initiatives or required changes or enhancements in support of security and privacy initiatives.
- Have between 5-15 years of cybersecurity work experience.
- Have between 0-5 years of cybersecurity leadership experience.
- Are capable of serving as a seasoned cybersecurity manager who oversees multiple DHS or Federal cybersecurity programs or DHS organizations, including employees and contract resources, through subordinate managers.
- Develop system concepts and work on the capabilities phases of the systems development lifecycle.
- Translate technology and environmental conditions (e.g., laws, regulations, policies and technical standards) into system and security designs and processes.
- Provide recommendations for investment standards and policies that drive how controls will be applied across the organization.