Data Security Engineer (Senior)

TS/SCI Position

The contractor develops and oversees the execution of long-term data security strategies to maximize systems, applications and infrastructure quality and efficiency. Provides technological, business and tactical guidance and leadership to the CDO/DCDO. Identifies opportunities for enhancing the Data security capabilities to support and achieve overall agency objectives. Assists the CDO with external industry boards or organizations.

Location: Chantilly, VA

Duties:

• Identifies opportunities for enhancing the data security capabilities to support and achieve overall agency objectives.
• Identify improvements to processes and workflows, related to physical and logical data protection.
• Collaborate with Information Security, Network Security and compliance teams to validate that Data security design, processes and procedures align with broader agency policies, standards and requirements.
• Plan and execute the protection of information found on NGA networks, working with employees to make sure they are educated on security protocol.
• Participates in team discussions to understand and provide inputs to system security requirements.
• Assists in leading day-to-day delivery to ensure team meets or exceeds service level obligations to internal customers.
• Provide work investigating complex technical matters on a global scale spanning multiple disciplines such as storage technologies, network security, identity management, data destruction methodologies, and workflow integration.
• Collaborates within team to clarify work objectives, address and resolve issues, and generate creative solutions to challenges and opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities and explain how to avoid them

Required Skills & Experience:

• 12+ to 18 yrs experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent Senior level experience as a Data Security Engineer.
• Demonstrated experience in information security or related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing data security standards.
• Experience in application level, database, file system and full disk encryption.

Desired Skills & Experiences:

• Experience with Talend, Sqoop, AWS Glue or related data transformational tools.
• Experience in Hadoop.
• Experience in AWS (S3, RDS, CloudWatch, EC2, etc.).
• Experience in MPP databases (such as Aurora, Redshift, Snowflake, Netezza, Teradata, Greenplum).
• Experience with Oracle.
• Experience with Symmetric Key Cipher and Asymmetric Cryptography.