Vulnerability Management (Engineer Network 3)

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Date: Apr 26, 2024

Location: Langley AFB, VA, Virginia, United States

Company: HII's Mission Technologies division

Requisition Number: 18781 

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Hours Per Week: 40 

Security Clearance: TS/SCI  

Level of Experience: Senior 

Job Description

 

About Mission Technologies, A Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries:

 

Building on a legacy of more than a century of naval shipbuilding, HII’s Mission Technologies division is accelerating national security solutions to a wide variety of government and commercial customers worldwide. Comprising more than 7,000 professionals, our unique national security portfolio includes cyber and electronic warfare, fleet sustainment, ISR, live, virtual, constructive (LVC) solutions, nuclear and environmental services, and unmanned systems. For more information, visit tsd.huntingtoningalls.com.

 

HII Mission Technologies is looking for a Vulnerability Management Engineer.

Essential Job Responsibilities

 

The  Vulnerability Management Engineer will:

 

  • Analyze, validate, demonstrate, and adjust severity of vulnerabilities based on actual risk to the organization
  • Document guidance to provide clarity about our vulnerability reporting and remediation processes
  • Refine the secure coding and secure cloud configuration guidance and standards provided to engineers
  • Develop innovative strategies to drive engineering to prioritize fixing issues, from most important to least, while reinforcing best practices in infrastructure, container dependency upgrades and 3rd-party library patching
  • Evaluate, select, and manage effective tools for detecting and managing security vulnerabilities
  • Take a "hands-on" approach to build automated integrations with security tools, as well as solutions to inventory, monitor, and report on vulnerability process maturity to leadership and other stakeholders
  • Assist in shifting the culture toward "security by design" by performing root cause analysis (RCA) on the vulnerabilities and recommending improvements in process and habits to prevent issues from recurring
  • Demonstrate satisfaction of internal policy and compliance requirements for SLAs by tracking metrics such as MTTR, vulnerability escape rate, and other SDLC and/or CI/CD pipeline measurements

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field;  or High School Diploma or equivalent and  9 years relevant experience.
  • Experience with multiple scanners - Nessus Tenable, SCAP
  • Experience maintaining a scanning environment
  • Candidate must have an active TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred Requirements

  • Bachelors degree highly preferred in computer science

This opportunity resides with Cyber & Electronic Warfare, a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace. Our deep expertise in network architecture, software and hardware development, cybersecurity and the electromagnetic environment uniquely enables us to support sensitive missions for federal agency partners.

 

HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider. With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics. HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions that support and enable a networked, all-domain force. Headquartered in Virginia, HII’s skilled workforce is 44,000 strong. For more information, please visit: hii.com.

 

HII is committed to cultivating an inclusive company culture to promote collaboration and enhance creativity by hiring a diverse work force. HII is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.