Sr System Engineer (Anti-Tamper Systems & Hardware)

$123,000 - $137,000/Yr

Auria - Colorado Springs, CO

Full-time - Mid Level

Colorado Springs, CO

Textile Product Mills

About the position

Auria is seeking a Senior System Engineer specializing in Anti-Tamper Systems and Hardware to support the Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) program. The role involves collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to analyze high-level needs and refine them into a minimum viable product (MVP). The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining various Anti-Tamper plans and assessments, ensuring compliance with security and exportability requirements, and supporting program milestone reviews.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Anti-tamper (AT) and C2BMC leadership on updates and changes to the C2BMC system.
• Perform Anti-Tamper Risk and Threat Management Assessments and reports for the C2BMC program.
• Develop the analysis process, prepare the AT plan, and provide coordination and input for near-term fielding decisions.
• Develop, deliver, and maintain the C2BMC AT Plan, C2BMC AT Evaluation Plan, C2BMC Key Management Plan, and the C2BMC Program Protection Plan.
• Develop, deliver, and maintain Critical Program Information (CPI) analysis, Defense Exportability Assessments, and defense export strategy.
• Develop, deliver, and maintain waivers for CPI, AT, or defense exportability features.
• Assess program Anti-Tamper designs and implementation plans in support of verification and validation efforts.
• Develop and deliver recommendations to improve program protection while meeting cost, schedule, and performance objectives.
• Identify risk-based technical countermeasures for protecting C2BMC Critical Program Information and Critical Components.
• Brief Anti-Tamper and Program Protection requirements and prepare white papers and evaluations as required.
• Support program milestone reviews and Fielding Decisions and verify entrance criteria are satisfied by approving the Anti-Tamper and Program Protection products.
• Interact with customers to define SSE requirements, solutions, trades, costs, implementation, system impacts, and effectiveness.
• Support developing plans and estimates, task execution, project tracking, reporting, and risk identification and mitigation plans.
• Keep senior management informed on significant accomplishments, issues, and concerns.
• Work independently in a highly dynamic environment and initiate research with clear documentation of results.

Requirements

• An active Secret clearance is required to start.
• 8 years with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field; 6 years with a Masters degree in a related field; or 12 years experience in lieu of a degree.
• Must possess a DoD 8140 certification at IAT Level III or higher (Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, CISA, GSE, SCNA).
• Substantial understanding of system design and development, service-oriented architecture development principles, and CI/CD.
• Experience designing and implementing Anti-Tamper (AT) and Defense Exportability Features (DEF) solutions.
• Ability to engineer complex systems ensuring separation of concerns and factor confidentiality, integrity, and availability considerations in all phases of the system development lifecycle.
• Experience with hardware components' implementation, verification, and validation testing.
• Ability to generate detailed, repeatable, automated test procedures and extract data to support analysis requirements.
• Experience with Agile and Lean Product Development principles and training others in a DevOps-type environment.
• Familiarity with Git, JIRA, Confluence, and other open-source development tools.