Cybersecurity Engineer

Job Title

Cybersecurity Engineer

Position Summary

Applied Science & Innovation, Inc. (ASI) supports the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with high-quality, effective, and efficient Information Technology (IT) services that advance VA's mission. VA depends on secure Information Management and Information Technology (IM/IT) systems to deliver services to Veterans and protect mission information and technology assets.

The Cybersecurity Engineer designs, integrates, configures, tests, and sustains enterprise security technologies that protect VA systems and data. The role supports security architecture, secure baseline configuration, tool rationalization, technical risk analysis, automated control validation, and continuous improvement. The engineer works across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, medical device, Internet of Things, and operational technology environments as assigned.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer, integrate, configure, test, optimize, and maintain enterprise cybersecurity tools in accordance with VA architecture, security policy, and operational requirements.
• Analyze technical and mission requirements and recommend security capabilities, configurations, integration patterns, and implementation approaches.
• Develop and maintain secure configuration baselines for operating systems, databases, cloud-native platforms, applications, medical devices, Internet of Things, and other assigned technologies.
• Assess compliance with approved baselines, identify deviations, document technical risk, and recommend actionable remediation.
• Integrate security gates, automated tests, hardened configuration, and deployment controls into approved development and delivery pipelines.
• Conduct engineering design security evaluations, threat analyses, specialized security posture reviews, and security control effectiveness assessments.
• Validate deployed controls through technical testing, automated control simulations, breach and attack simulatio