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Cyber Test & Exploitation Senior Staff (Embedded Systems)

Grand Prairie, Texas & Additional Locations

Grand Prairie, Texas; Orlando, Florida

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Responsibilities

Job ID: 663643BR Date posted: Mar. 21, 2024 Program: AP/21CS-AP/21CS IRAD
Description:There are people who say some ideas are impossible, unattainable, or unrealistic. Then there are those of us who work at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. As a part of the Lockheed Martin community, we take on the biggest, baddest challenges in the world and find solutions using creativity and collaboration. We are seeking a Senior Staff Cybersecurity Test Exploitation to join our team in Dallas, Texas.

You will be expected to leverage your technical, and interpersonal skills in a structured team framework and work in a cross-functional engineering Team environment.

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Conduct exploitation testing to improve integrity and security of weapon system environments, involving:
-Analyzing software to discover vulnerabilities
-Developing custom software tools to launch exploitations on embedded systems
-Fabricating and integrating custom hardware into existing embedded systems
-Adapting common cyber security tools for use on embedded systems

• Utilize domain knowledge to guide and advise development teams on building cyber secure systems

• Solve extremely challenging and complex problems related to attack vectors and mitigations

• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of issues related to both Cyber Security and Anti-Tamper

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Basic Qualifications:
*Must currently a DoD Secret Security Clearance or higher to be considered for this position*

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 14 years of professional experience; or 12 years of relevant professional experience with a related Master's degree

• Complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories and concepts, in the field, and a general knowledge of other related disciplines

• Experience and familiarity with conducting penetration test events

• Experience in embedded software development

• Familiar with hardware integration and testing

• Strong understanding of DoD Weapon Systems

• Satisfy at least IAT level III of the DoD 8570/8140 requirement
Desired Skills:
• Extensive Experience developing embedded DoD National Security Systems (NSS) requiring Systems Security Engineering implementations

• Design experience through the DoD systems development life-cycle (SDLC) developing embedded system security solutions for DoD weapon or tactical systems

• Demonstrate both tactical as well as strategic thinking and creative problem-solving

• Experience with embedded systems design

• Excellent writing skills and ability to communicate effectively

• Experience with embedded system vulnerability scanning and Software Assurance (SwA) activities

• Strong understanding of System Security Engineering (SSE) principals and process. (NIST SP 800-161)

• Experience in the identification, decomposition, allocation and verification of NIST SP 800-53 Security Controls on DoD systems

• Experience in supporting Security Verification testing on developed DoD Weapon Systems

• Leadership experience

• Certifications including: OSCP, GXPN, GAWN, CISSP-ISSAP
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: MISSILES AND FIRE CONTROL
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Cyber Security Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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About

Lockheed Martin is the leader of cyber security defense, cyber operations and sensitive data protection. We employ the world's best cyber minds from diverse fields – people who are passionate about and empowered by our customers' missions. Lockheed Martin's best-in-cyber teams are experts in thinking like the enemy – identifying adversary activity and anticipating advanced persistent threats to strengthen platform defenses, inside and out of our networks.

Our Commitment to Sustainability: We foster innovation, integrity and security to preserve the environment, strengthen diverse communities and propel growth.

Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:

  • Full Time
  • Level: Entry, Mid, Senior
  • Travel: Minimal, dependent on role

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Qualifications

What does a successful Cyber Security employee at Lockheed Martin look like?
Check out the info below to see if you have what it takes.

  • Analytical

    Advancing technologies and out of the box thinking that enable cyber operations, resulting in inventing solutions that will keep us safe today and into the future.

  • Creative

    Natural curiosity is an absolutely essential trait. Curiosity leads to continual learning which allows you to stay one step ahead of the threat.

  • Curious

    The ability to anticipate hackers’ intent and disrupt their next move is key. Seeking out new weaknesses before they become weaknesses. Proactively learning and updating systems is how we stay ahead of the threat.

  • Proactive

    We have hard problems to solve and we look for people who thrive at solving them, who can see problems from both the defensive and offensive sides.

  • Problem Solver

    Whatever you know today could be different tomorrow as security is constantly changing. Possessing strong technical skills and intellectual depth along with a willingness to continually learn from others is important to adapt to and address the Advanced Persistent Threat.

  • Technologically savvy

    The ability to analyze and disseminate threat intelligence. The ability to analyze and address the root cause, learn from the attack and anticipate the hacker’s next move.

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Quote

“Cyber is the most exciting career field! Every day, there's new cyber threat information that we leverage to shape our courses of action when identifying, assessing, developing, integrating, and continuously evaluating the effectiveness of defensive measures.”

Dr. Dawn B., Senior Fellow

Benefits

  • Healthcare

    Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.

  • 401(k)/Retirement Plans

    Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.

  • Professional Development

    We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs, funding for cyber certifications.

  • Maternity and Paternity Leave

    Our generous parental leave policies support your journey into parenthood. When you return to work, our facilities offer mother's rooms to support your transition and work/life balance.

  • Paid Time Off

    We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.

  • Flex-time

    Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.

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