Job Information
Parsons Corporation Information Assurance Engineer Level 4 in Chantilly, Virginia
Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Top Secret SCI w/Polygraph
Job Description:
Ready for a challenge that will require your experience and keep you on the edge of cyber security? Take your experience and work within a team that protects privacy and ensures security for our national defense systems. Parsons is now hiring an experience Information Assurance Engineer.
Job Description
An Information Assurance Engineer is responsible for conducting information systems security engineering activities throughout the lifecycle. IAEs are responsible for capturing and refining information protection requirements to ensure their integration into information systems acquisitions and information system development through purposeful security design or configuration. The contractor integrates security functional requirements into existing acquisition lifecycle phases, milestones, and documents using systems engineering principles and methodologies. Personnel shall be knowledgeable of best practices when implementing security controls including software engineering methodologies, security engineering methodologies , security engineering principles, and secure coding techniques and coordinates activities with assessment and authorization stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph
Bachelor's Degree + 15 years of IAE experience OR Master's Degree + 12 years of IAE experience
Desired Qualifications
Knowledge of and experience with ICD 503 and the Government's certification and accreditation process; Networks, computer components, system protocols, and COTS technology; System methodologies including: client/server, web hosting, web content servers, policy servers, directory servers, firewalls, WAN, MAN, LAN, switches, and routers; Software integration of COTS and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) products; VMware, Xen, Hyper V and other virtualization platforms
Configuring and supporting, at a minimum, Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS;
Configuring and supporting, at a minimum, VMware, Xen, Hyper V;
Software engineering;
Program design and implementation;
Configuration management;
System maintenance;
Integration testing; and
Information system engineering.
Must be able to obtain, maintain and/or currently possess a security clearance.
Parsons is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LGBTQ+. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, union affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, pregnancy, employable physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, immigration status, or any other basis protected by all applicable laws.