Staff Cross Domain Solution Engineer (R5356)

Job Description:

As a Staff Cross Domain Systems Engineer, you will lead the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of secure cross domain solutions that enable mission-critical data sharing across Top Secret and other classified network environments. You will serve as a senior technical authority for cross domain architecture, system accreditation, security engineering, and operational support, working closely with cybersecurity, network, infrastructure, mission, and program leadership teams.

What you'll do:

• 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.

Required qualifications:

• 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.
• Powershell, Ansible and Python are nice to have.
• Available to be onsite in our Washington, DC or Dallas, Texas office.
• Must have top secret clearance / clearance with SCI eligibility
• Hypervisor environments
• Networking
• Security+ certified, or ability to obtain certification in the first 3 months