Staff Cross Domain Solution Engineer
Lead the design, integration, and sustainment of secure Cross Domain Solutions enabling data sharing across Top Secret and classified networks. Requires 7+ years experience, deep knowledge of networking, hypervisors, security engineering, and active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering and implementation of Cross Domain Solutions that support secure information transfer between classified networks and enclaves.
- Design and evaluate architectures for high-assurance data movement, including guards, transfer solutions, filtering mechanisms, auditing, and policy enforcement capabilities.
- Support Top Secret network environments by ensuring systems are engineered, configured, and maintained in accordance with applicable security policies, mission requirements, and accreditation standards.
- Partner with ISSM, ISSO, network engineering, and operations teams to support system authorization, risk management, vulnerability remediation, and continuous monitoring activities.
- Develop and review technical documentation, including system designs, interface control documents, security artifacts, test plans, implementation procedures, and operational runbooks.
- Troubleshoot complex cross domain, network, system, and security issues across classified environments, providing root cause analysis and long-term corrective actions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, vendor capabilities, and mission needs to recommend secure, scalable, and operationally effective cross domain architectures.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, administrators, and mission partners supporting classified infrastructure and secure data exchange.
- Drive improvements in reliability, automation, monitoring, documentation, and engineering standards across cross domain and classified network environments.
- Support system upgrades, technology refreshes, lab validation, integration testing, and production deployments in highly controlled classified environments.
- Serve as a trusted senior engineer for programs requiring secure, reliable, and accredited information sharing across sensitive and mission-critical networks.
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
- Hypervisor environments
- Networking
- Security+ certified, or ability to obtain certification in the first 3 months
- Must have top secret clearance / clearance with SCI eligibility
- Available to be onsite in our Washington, DC or Dallas, Texas office.
Nice-to-Haves
- Powershell, Ansible and Python
Skills
Cross Domain Solutions, Security Engineering, Networking, Hypervisors, PowerShell, Ansible, Python, Security+
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