Subject Matter Expert Satellite 3

Responsibilities

• Provide software customization and product enhancements to the Government's Insider Threat Analysis software in response to changes in the operational environment and new or changing requirements.
• Act as subject matter expert for system architecture, enterprise security, adaptive systems, and cyber analytic techniques.
• Devise innovative cybersecurity solutions to resolve outstanding events or potential gaps in mission coverage.
• Perform complex systems modeling, simulation, and analysis to provide appropriate software solutions.
• Develop software system testing procedures, programming, and documentation to ensure threat software applications and solutions exhibit expected performance, security, maintainability, and reliability levels.
• Prepare vision and strategy work products, technology and product analysis, and responses to management queries on security, technology, and product-related topics.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and analyze software programs to ensure system security and compatibility with third-party software and in-place hardware systems.
• Coordinate and facilitate investigations to resolve and ensure proper security and functionality of software products and the supporting systems.
• Maintain communication with Government management, other departments and agencies, and customers regarding software development status.

Minimum Qualifications

• Twelve (12) years of experience with SME Satellite support or related customer-interfacing technical lead. 
• Five (5) years of experience with Windows and Linux Operating System experience. 
• Two (2) years of technical project leadership experience. 
• Master of Science (MS) degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, or a related field from an accredited college or university. 
• In lieu of an MS degree, a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, or a related field, and an additional two (2) years of SME Satellite experience may be substituted.

Required Capabilities

• Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, and improve threat software performance
• Build and deploy software enhancements using Windows Operating Systems, Linux, and TCP/IP network
• Coordinate and perform research and engineering to identify and incorporate new data sources, produce new processing and reporting capabilities, and integrate with other government systems (e.g., upgraded and reconfigured) and processes.
• Implement solutions to threat-monitoring challenges, enterprise-level networking, security products or similar projects.
• Discover, develop, and apply statistical methods, counterintelligence, and computer forensic analysis techniques to troubleshoot and resolve network and analysis problems.
• Manage schedules; meet with clients, stakeholders, and customers to define technical project scope; gather government requirements; suggest policy recommendations and solutions; and refine requirements, operations, and software applications.
• Review and provide system engineering resources to meet customer mission requirements and coordinate R&D activities to ensure customer technical goals are considered.
• Design, develop, and modify threat software to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design in response to expanding mission, changes in objectives, and upgrades in Agency networks and systems
• Formulate training objectives, scenarios, and procedures to develop training course content for Government personnel on the Insider Threat Analysis Software.
• Identify project risks and determine the administrative or engineering means to mitigate the risk.
• Use software utilities and hardware functionalities to resolve analogous operating issues.
• Discuss and resolve emerging threats, issues, and changes in operating scope. Document and brief technical and management staff
• Provide end-to-end research implementation, testing, deployment, debugging, operation, and analysis of insider threat data and software.
• Perform software customization by applying TCP/IP networking and advanced packet analysis.
• Investigate and resolve unexplained anomalous activity
• Build implementations of analysis techniques into the tool and perform analysis to determine the security and effectiveness of existing and proposed customizations
• Provides explanations of the implication of new and potential sources of unauthorized access to networks, databases, systems, and potential mitigation strategies