Cyber Security Systems Engineer / Contract to hire / Onsite / Carrollton, TX

Our client, a global radiation?safety and measurement company, is actively hiring a Cyber Security Systems Engineer to join their team in Carrollton, TX! This role will be fully onsite.

In this role, you will be owning their end-to-end delivery of secure command-and-control systems for critical infrastructure environments. You will be working across their requirements, design, integration, validation, and deployment within a V-Model framework.

Contract duration: 6 months to hire

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, IT, or related
• 5-7 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience
• CISSP or equivalent certification
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-82, NIST SP 800-53, and IEC 62443 standards

• Prior experience working in defense, nuclear, or related regulated industries is a plus

What you will be doing:

• Translate customer cybersecurity needs into system and component-level specifications using the standard V-Model
• Design cybersecurity architectures for AIM SCS and COTS-based command-and-control solutions
• Architect platform environments for 20-30 Windows servers and workstations within their Active Directory domain
• Maintain configuration management records throughout the build
• Support Acceptance Testing, conduct vulnerability assessments and security scans, and disposition all findings
• Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical point of contact