Senior IT Security Specialist

Bachelor’s degree in a related specialized area or equivalent is required plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.

Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Imagine a world-class engineering environment. Now add a team of exceptional talent along with technologies that are so advanced they’re often classified. That’s what you’ll find at General Dynamics Mission Systems. Here you’ll lead amazing engineers as they invent the technologies, products and services that help our service members, intelligence analysts and first responders keep our nation safe. If you want the chance to lead, it’s time to bring your talent to General Dynamics Mission Systems.

We apply advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, AR/VR, Cloud Native and Quantum Physics to solve our customers’ missions in cyber, RF, undersea, interstellar and everything in between.

Providing security engineering and integration services to customers, you’ll develop and execute security controls, defenses and countermeasures to intercept and prevent internal or external attacks or attempts to infiltrate company email, data, e-commerce and web-based systems. You’ll also research attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security and design countermeasures, maintain hardware, software and network firewalls and encryption protocols and administer security policies to control physical and virtual access to systems.

What you’ll experience:

• Technologies that aren’t just top-notch, they’re often top-secret
• A team of bold thinkers committed to exploring what’s next
• Opportunities to gain new knowledge - as it’s discovered

What you bring to the table:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related specialized area or equivalent plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience
• Ability to develop, test, debug and deploy code or processing routines that support security protocols for an established system or systems
• Ability to apply current computer science technologies to the design, development, evaluation, and integration of computer systems and networks to maintain system security

• Manage the Information Assurance (IA) organization administrative portion for direct charge: 

  • Control Account Manager (CAM) role tasking, IA metrics gathering and reporting accross all programs 

  • management and tracking of monthly IA Basis of Estimates (BoE) performance per program environment

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    examine and prepare monthly charges for the “next” month and validate # of contracts to allocate the future month charges

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    review all IA BoEs for accuracy during proposal efforts and enter into FLEX cost capturing tool

  • manage IA FTE estimation tool

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    IA proposal effort lead, run requirements gathering meetings, manage product delivery

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    relationship management with LOB Dir of Ops, Program Mangement, and other business stakeholders

• Very strong knowledge of the following:
  
  • disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans
  • response and handling methodologies
  • resource management principles and techniques
  • system life cycle management principles, including software security and usability
  • information assurance security program management and project management principles and techniques
  • applicable business processes and operations of customer organizations

• What sets you apart:
  • creative thinking with the ability to multi-task
  • team player who thrives in collaborative environments and revels in team success
  • commitment to ongoing professional development

General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency. We offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose. You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans