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About General Dynamics
General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation, ship construction, land combat vehicles, and information technology. It serves customers in the U.S. government, allied governments, and a diverse array of commercial markets.
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As a Senior Information Assurance Engineer, you will join the team to lead cybersecurity engineering activities across the entire system life cycle. You will be responsible for defining and implementing secure system architectures using defense-in-depth principles, developing critical artifacts like System Security Plans and Security Control Traceability Matrices, and managing Risk Management Framework activities including control selection, tailoring, and authorization package development. Your daily work involves translating mission objectives into actionable engineering requirements, performing technical analyses of networks and interfaces to ensure compliance with DISA STIGs and NCDSMO requirements, and collaborating in Agile environments to integrate security into CI/CD pipelines. You will utilize expertise in NIST SP 800-37, secure software development life cycles, and multi-level security architectures to solve complex security challenges within the space, satellite communications, and mission systems domain.
Risk Management Framework
NIST 800-37
DevSecOps
STIGs
Defense in Depth
Agile
Cybersecurity System Engineering
Security Control Traceability Matrix
Secure Software Factory
Information Assurance
System Architecture
Access Control
Authentication
Audit
Ground to Satellite Communication
Risk Management Framework (RMF)
STIGs
DevSecOps
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
NIST SP 800-37
Static Code Analysis
System Development Life Cycle
Cybersecurity
Agile
Microsoft Office
Security+
CISSP
RMF
NIST 800-53
STIG
SRG
Nessus
Penetration Testing
Python
Bash
PowerShell
Linux
Dynamic Code Analysis
Systems Engineering
Verification and Validation
Microsoft Office
Embedded Systems