Cyber Systems Engineer – Project Management Technical Support

Position Title: Cyber Systems Engineer- Project Management Technical Support
Position Type: Full-time, Fully On-Site
Location: Chantilly, VA
Clearance: Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly

Description:
Waypoint's client is seeking a Cyber Systems Engineer - Project Management Technical Support to lead and enhance cybersecurity and information assurance (IA) initiatives across a critical national enterprise. This role involves supporting senior leadership in developing and implementing cyber strategies, assessing contractor performance, and driving project management and acquisition efforts to meet mission objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Support the front Office elements (Director, Deputy, COS, Business Operations Lead, Tech Director) in the development, communication and implementation of the cyber/IA strategy for the Enterprise.
• Collaborate with other contractors, customers and FFRDCs to ensure actions and items of interest are worked to closure.
• Advise in the production and tailoring of government financial artifacts, execution reports and program acquisition documentation and ensure affordable, supportable and effective program requirements are specified to meet mission needs.
• Provide assessments and recommendations to the customer on matters of cybersecurity and information assurance.
• Assist in the development of execution reviews, acquisition roadmaps and transition plans.
• Assist with the development, documentation and communication of office initiatives geared toward enterprise security.
• Provide technical recaps of customer meetings with cyber security contractors.
• Assesses contractor performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures
• Assist in the development of technical requirements.
• Produces high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior US government intelligence and operations officials.
• Analyzes policies and procedures against Federal laws and regulations and provides recommendations for closing gaps.
• Develop strategies to comply with privacy and risk management requirements.
• Work with government and contractor leads to address various systems engineering, system integration, and project management issues across projects.
• Provide support to GPMs to assure execution within the cost, schedule, and performance baselines. Utilize program management tools (e.g., Plan-It, MS Excel) to assist GPM with planning, documenting, executing, and reporting of all program details (e.g., spend plans), for both current year (FY) and out-years (FYDP).

Required Skills:

• 12 to 15 years with BS or 10 to 13 years with MS or 8 to 10 years with PhD.
• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI with Poly.
• An 8570/8140 IA Certification.
• Excellent communications skills - Verbal and Non-Verbal.
• Experience supporting project management and acquisitions.
• Experience with customer's Cybersecurity Processes and tools/capabilities.
• Experience in requirements analysis.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Hands-on working knowledge of Excel and other database applications.

Desired:

• Self-starter requiring limited direction and supervision.
• Bachelors of Science Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) or an advanced IA certification (i.e. CISSP or CASP).
• Experience briefing senior customer personnel.
• Ability to organize and prioritize numerous customer requests in a fast-paced deadline driven environment.
• Familiarity with the RMF process.
• Experience supporting IC or DoD in the Cyber Security Domain.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft tools; Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint.