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2022 Cybersecurity Jobs

Responsible for the analysis and development of the integration, testing, operations, and maintenance of systems security.

#Job Openings

221,103

Sample Tasks

Apply security policies to applications that interface with one another, such as Business-to-Business (B2B) applications.
Apply security policies to meet security objectives of the system.
Apply service-oriented security architecture principles to meet organization's confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements.

Sample Knowledge

Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.

Sample Skills

Skill in designing the integration of hardware and software solutions.
Skill in determining how a security system should work (including its resilience and dependability capabilities) and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect these outcomes.
Ability to conduct vulnerability scans and recognize vulnerabilities in security systems.

Security Architect

Ensures that the stakeholder security requirements necessary to protect the organization’s mission and business processes are adequately addressed in all aspects of enterprise architecture including reference models, segment and solution architectures, and the resulting systems supporting those missions and business processes.

#Job Openings

122,859

Sample Tasks

Define and prioritize essential system capabilities or business functions required for partial or full system restoration after a catastrophic failure event.
Define appropriate levels of system availability based on critical system functions and ensure that system requirements identify appropriate disaster recovery and continuity of operations requirements to include any appropriate fail-over/alternate site requirements, backup requirements, and material supportability requirements for system recover/restoration.
Develop/integrate cybersecurity designs for systems and networks with multilevel security requirements or requirements for the processing of multiple classification levels of data primarily applicable to government organizations (e.g., UNCLASSIFIED, SECRET, and TOP SECRET).

Sample Knowledge

Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.

Sample Skills

Skill in applying and incorporating information technologies into proposed solutions.
Skill in designing countermeasures to identified security risks.
Ability to apply the methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting an organization's enterprise information technology (IT) architecture (e.g., Open Group Architecture Framework [TOGAF], Department of Defense Architecture Framework [DoDAF], Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework [FEAF]).

Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.
Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
Knowledge of authentication, authorization, and access control methods.
Knowledge of applicable business processes and operations of customer organizations.
Knowledge of application vulnerabilities.
Knowledge of communication methods, principles, and concepts that support the network infrastructure.
Knowledge of capabilities and applications of network equipment including routers, switches, bridges, servers, transmission media, and related hardware.
Knowledge of capabilities and requirements analysis.
Knowledge of cyber defense and vulnerability assessment tools and their capabilities.
Knowledge of computer algorithms.
Knowledge of encryption algorithms
Knowledge of cryptography and cryptographic key management concepts
Knowledge of database systems.
Knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery continuity of operations plans.
Knowledge of organization's enterprise information security architecture.
Knowledge of electrical engineering as applied to computer architecture (e.g., circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware).
Knowledge of installation, integration, and optimization of system components.
Knowledge of human-computer interaction principles.
Knowledge of Security Assessment and Authorization process.
Knowledge of industry-standard and organizationally accepted analysis principles and methods.
Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles and organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
Knowledge of mathematics (e.g. logarithms, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus, statistics, and operational analysis).
Knowledge of microprocessors.
Knowledge of network access, identity, and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML).
Knowledge of network hardware devices and functions.
Knowledge of new and emerging information technology (IT) and cybersecurity technologies.
Knowledge of operating systems.
Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
Knowledge of parallel and distributed computing concepts.
Knowledge of remote access technology concepts.
Knowledge of key concepts in security management (e.g., Release Management, Patch Management).
Knowledge of software engineering.
Knowledge of systems testing and evaluation methods.
Knowledge of technology integration processes.
Knowledge of telecommunications concepts (e.g., Communications channel, Systems Link Budgeting, Spectral efficiency, Multiplexing).
Knowledge of the systems engineering process.
Knowledge of critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.
Knowledge of network systems management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.
Knowledge of organizational process improvement concepts and process maturity models (e.g., Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) for Development, CMMI for Services, and CMMI for Acquisitions).
Knowledge of service management concepts for networks and related standards (e.g., Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
Knowledge of the application firewall concepts and functions (e.g., Single point of authentication/audit/policy enforcement, message scanning for malicious content, data anonymization for PCI and PII compliance, data loss protection scanning, accelerated cryptographic operations, SSL security, REST/JSON processing).
Knowledge of confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements.
Knowledge of cybersecurity-enabled software products.
Knowledge of the Risk Management Framework Assessment Methodology.
Knowledge of various types of computer architectures.
Knowledge of multi-level security systems and cross domain solutions.
Knowledge of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data security standards.
Knowledge of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards.
Knowledge of Personal Health Information (PHI) data security standards.
Knowledge of program protection planning (e.g. information technology (IT) supply chain security/risk management policies, anti-tampering techniques, and requirements).
Knowledge of configuration management techniques.
Knowledge of current and emerging data encryption (e.g., Column and Tablespace Encryption, file and disk encryption) security features in databases (e.g. built-in cryptographic key management features).
Knowledge of N-tiered typologies (e.g. including server and client operating systems).
Knowledge of an organization's information classification program and procedures for information compromise.
Knowledge of the enterprise information technology (IT) architectural concepts and patterns (e.g., baseline, validated design, and target architectures.)
Knowledge of integrating the organization’s goals and objectives into the architecture.
Knowledge of organization's evaluation and validation criteria.
Knowledge of embedded systems.
Knowledge of system fault tolerance methodologies.
Knowledge of Information Theory (e.g., source coding, channel coding, algorithm complexity theory, and data compression).
Knowledge of demilitarized zones.
Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, Dynamic Host Configuration, Domain Name System (DNS), and directory services.
Knowledge of network design processes, to include understanding of security objectives, operational objectives, and trade-offs.
Knowledge of access authentication methods.
WITHDRAWN: Knowledge of basic structure, architecture, and design of modern digital and telephony networks. (See K0599)
Knowledge of the common networking and routing protocols (e.g. TCP/IP), services (e.g., web, mail, DNS), and how they interact to provide network communications.

Skill in applying and incorporating information technologies into proposed solutions.
Skill in designing countermeasures to identified security risks.
Skill in designing the integration of hardware and software solutions.
Skill in determining how a security system should work (including its resilience and dependability capabilities) and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect these outcomes.
Skill in design modeling and building use cases (e.g., unified modeling language).
Skill in using Virtual Private Network (VPN) devices and encryption.
Skill in writing test plans.
Skill in configuring and utilizing software-based computer protection tools (e.g., software firewalls, antivirus software, anti-spyware).
Skill in designing multi-level security/cross domain solutions.
Skill in the use of design methods.
Skill in using Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) encryption and digital signature capabilities into applications (e.g., S/MIME email, SSL traffic).
Skill in applying security models (e.g., Bell-LaPadula model, Biba integrity model, Clark-Wilson integrity model).
Skill in translating operational requirements into protection needs (i.e., security controls).
Skill in setting up physical or logical sub-networks that separate an internal local area network (LAN) from other untrusted networks.
Skill in configuring and utilizing computer protection components (e.g., hardware firewalls, servers, routers, as appropriate).
Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
Skill to identify cybersecurity and privacy issues that stem from connections with internal and external customers and partner organizations.
Ability to apply the methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting an organization's enterprise information technology (IT) architecture (e.g., Open Group Architecture Framework [TOGAF], Department of Defense Architecture Framework [DoDAF], Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework [FEAF]).
Ability to communicate effectively when writing.
Ability to conduct vulnerability scans and recognize vulnerabilities in security systems.
Ability to apply an organization's goals and objectives to develop and maintain architecture.
Ability to optimize systems to meet enterprise performance requirements.
Ability to apply network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).
Ability to apply secure system design tools, methods and techniques.
Ability to apply system design tools, methods, and techniques, including automated systems analysis and design tools.
Ability to design architectures and frameworks.
Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
Ability to serve as the primary liaison between the enterprise architect and the systems security engineer and coordinates with system owners, common control providers, and system security officers on the allocation of security controls as system-specific, hybrid, or common controls.
Ability, in close coordination with system security officers, advise authorizing officials, chief information officers, senior information security officers, and the senior accountable official for risk management/risk executive (function), on a range of security-related issues (e.g. establishing system boundaries; assessing the severity of weaknesses and deficiencies in the system; plans of action and milestones; risk mitigation approaches; security alerts; and potential adverse effects of identified vulnerabilities).
Ability to identify critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.
Ability to set up a physical or logical sub-networks that separates an internal local area network (LAN) from other untrusted networks.

Define and prioritize essential system capabilities or business functions required for partial or full system restoration after a catastrophic failure event.
Define appropriate levels of system availability based on critical system functions and ensure that system requirements identify appropriate disaster recovery and continuity of operations requirements to include any appropriate fail-over/alternate site requirements, backup requirements, and material supportability requirements for system recover/restoration.
Develop/integrate cybersecurity designs for systems and networks with multilevel security requirements or requirements for the processing of multiple classification levels of data primarily applicable to government organizations (e.g., UNCLASSIFIED, SECRET, and TOP SECRET).
Document and address organization's information security, cybersecurity architecture, and systems security engineering requirements throughout the acquisition life cycle.
Employ secure configuration management processes.
Ensure that acquired or developed system(s) and architecture(s) are consistent with organization's cybersecurity architecture guidelines.
Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture, and develop a security risk management plan.
Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes.
Provide input on security requirements to be included in statements of work and other appropriate procurement documents.
Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system life-cycle support plans, concept of operations, operational procedures, and maintenance training materials).
Define and document how the implementation of a new system or new interfaces between systems impacts the security posture of the current environment.
Analyze candidate architectures, allocate security services, and select security mechanisms.
Develop a system security context, a preliminary system security Concept of Operations (CONOPS), and define baseline system security requirements in accordance with applicable cybersecurity requirements.
Evaluate security architectures and designs to determine the adequacy of security design and architecture proposed or provided in response to requirements contained in acquisition documents.
Write detailed functional specifications that document the architecture development process.
Analyze user needs and requirements to plan architecture.
Develop enterprise architecture or system components required to meet user needs.
Document and update as necessary all definition and architecture activities.
Determine the protection needs (i.e., security controls) for the information system(s) and network(s) and document appropriately.
Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements.
Assess and design security management functions as related to cyberspace.

Information Systems Security Developer

Designs, develops, tests, and evaluates information system security throughout the systems development life cycle.

#Job Openings

65,716

Sample Tasks

Analyze design constraints, analyze trade-offs and detailed system and security design, and consider life cycle support.
Apply security policies to applications that interface with one another, such as Business-to-Business (B2B) applications.
Assess the effectiveness of cybersecurity measures utilized by system(s).

Sample Knowledge

Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.

Sample Skills

Skill in conducting vulnerability scans and recognizing vulnerabilities in security systems.
Skill in designing countermeasures to identified security risks.
Skill in designing security controls based on cybersecurity principles and tenets.

Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.
Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
Knowledge of computer algorithms.
Knowledge of encryption algorithms
Knowledge of database systems.
Knowledge of organization's enterprise information security architecture.
Knowledge of organization's evaluation and validation requirements.
Knowledge of electrical engineering as applied to computer architecture (e.g., circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware).
Knowledge of resiliency and redundancy.
Knowledge of installation, integration, and optimization of system components.
Knowledge of human-computer interaction principles.
Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles and organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
Knowledge of information security systems engineering principles (NIST SP 800-160).
Knowledge of information technology (IT) security principles and methods (e.g., firewalls, demilitarized zones, encryption).
Knowledge of local area and wide area networking principles and concepts including bandwidth management.
Knowledge of mathematics (e.g. logarithms, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus, statistics, and operational analysis).
Knowledge of microprocessors.
Knowledge of network access, identity, and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML).
Knowledge of operating systems.
Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
Knowledge of parallel and distributed computing concepts.
Knowledge of policy-based and risk adaptive access controls.
Knowledge of Privacy Impact Assessments.
Knowledge of process engineering concepts.
Knowledge of secure configuration management techniques. (e.g., Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), cybersecurity best practices on cisecurity.org).
Knowledge of software development models (e.g., Waterfall Model, Spiral Model).
Knowledge of software engineering.
Knowledge of structured analysis principles and methods.
Knowledge of system design tools, methods, and techniques, including automated systems analysis and design tools.
Knowledge of system software and organizational design standards, policies, and authorized approaches (e.g., International Organization for Standardization [ISO] guidelines) relating to system design.
Knowledge of system life cycle management principles, including software security and usability.
Knowledge of systems testing and evaluation methods.
Knowledge of telecommunications concepts (e.g., Communications channel, Systems Link Budgeting, Spectral efficiency, Multiplexing).
Knowledge of the systems engineering process.
Knowledge of Supply Chain Risk Management Practices (NIST SP 800-161)
Knowledge of interpreted and compiled computer languages.
Knowledge of information technology (IT) supply chain security and supply chain risk management policies, requirements, and procedures.
Knowledge of critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.
Knowledge of network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).
Knowledge of network systems management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.
Knowledge of service management concepts for networks and related standards (e.g., Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
Knowledge of security models (e.g., Bell-LaPadula model, Biba integrity model, Clark-Wilson integrity model).
Knowledge of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data security standards.
Knowledge of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards.
Knowledge of Personal Health Information (PHI) data security standards.
Knowledge of security management.
Knowledge of an organization's information classification program and procedures for information compromise.
Knowledge of countermeasure design for identified security risks.
Knowledge of cryptology.
Knowledge of embedded systems.
Knowledge of Information Theory (e.g., source coding, channel coding, algorithm complexity theory, and data compression).
Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, Dynamic Host Configuration, Domain Name System (DNS), and directory services.
Knowledge of network design processes, to include understanding of security objectives, operational objectives, and trade-offs.
Knowledge of access authentication methods.

Skill in conducting vulnerability scans and recognizing vulnerabilities in security systems.
Skill in designing countermeasures to identified security risks.
Skill in designing security controls based on cybersecurity principles and tenets.
Skill in designing the integration of hardware and software solutions.
Skill in developing and applying security system access controls.
Skill in discerning the protection needs (i.e., security controls) of information systems and networks.
Skill in evaluating the adequacy of security designs.
Skill in conducting audits or reviews of technical systems.
Skill in integrating and applying policies that meet system security objectives.
Skill in the use of design modeling (e.g., unified modeling language).
Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
Ability to identify systemic security issues based on the analysis of vulnerability and configuration data.
Ability to apply the methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting an organization's enterprise information technology (IT) architecture (e.g., Open Group Architecture Framework [TOGAF], Department of Defense Architecture Framework [DoDAF], Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework [FEAF]).
Ability to ask clarifying questions.
Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.
Ability to conduct vulnerability scans and recognize vulnerabilities in security systems.
Ability to produce technical documentation.
Ability to analyze test data.
Ability to translate data and test results into evaluative conclusions.
Ability to apply network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).
Ability to apply secure system design tools, methods and techniques.
Ability to apply system design tools, methods, and techniques, including automated systems analysis and design tools.
Ability to ensure security practices are followed throughout the acquisition process.
Ability to design architectures and frameworks.
Ability to collaborate effectively with others.
Ability to function in a collaborative environment, seeking continuous consultation with other analysts and experts—both internal and external to the organization—to leverage analytical and technical expertise.
Ability to participate as a member of planning teams, coordination groups, and task forces as necessary.
Ability to understand objectives and effects.
Ability to understand the basic concepts and issues related to cyber and its organizational impact.
Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
Ability to identify critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.

Analyze design constraints, analyze trade-offs and detailed system and security design, and consider life cycle support.
Apply security policies to applications that interface with one another, such as Business-to-Business (B2B) applications.
Assess the effectiveness of cybersecurity measures utilized by system(s).
Assess threats to and vulnerabilities of computer system(s) to develop a security risk profile.
Build, test, and modify product prototypes using working models or theoretical models.
Conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) of the application’s security design for the appropriate security controls, which protect the confidentiality and integrity of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
Design and develop cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products.
Design hardware, operating systems, and software applications to adequately address cybersecurity requirements.
Design or integrate appropriate data backup capabilities into overall system designs, and ensure that appropriate technical and procedural processes exist for secure system backups and protected storage of backup data.
Develop and direct system testing and validation procedures and documentation.
Develop detailed security design documentation for component and interface specifications to support system design and development.
Develop Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans for systems under development and ensure testing prior to systems entering a production environment.
Develop risk mitigation strategies to resolve vulnerabilities and recommend security changes to system or system components as needed.
Develop specific cybersecurity countermeasures and risk mitigation strategies for systems and/or applications.
Identify components or elements, allocate security functions to those elements, and describe the relationships between the elements.
Identify and direct the remediation of technical problems encountered during testing and implementation of new systems (e.g., identify and find work-arounds for communication protocols that are not interoperable).
Identify and prioritize essential system functions or sub-systems required to support essential capabilities or business functions for restoration or recovery after a system failure or during a system recovery event based on overall system requirements for continuity and availability.
Identify, assess, and recommend cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products for use within a system and ensure that recommended products are in compliance with organization's evaluation and validation requirements.
Implement security designs for new or existing system(s).
Incorporate cybersecurity vulnerability solutions into system designs (e.g., Cybersecurity Vulnerability Alerts).
Perform risk analysis (e.g., threat, vulnerability, and probability of occurrence) whenever an application or system undergoes a major change.
Provide guidelines for implementing developed systems to customers or installation teams.
Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system life-cycle support plans, concept of operations, operational procedures, and maintenance training materials).
Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
Provide support to security/certification test and evaluation activities.
Utilize models and simulations to analyze or predict system performance under different operating conditions.
Design and develop key management functions (as related to cybersecurity).
Analyze user needs and requirements to plan and conduct system security development.
Develop cybersecurity designs to meet specific operational needs and environmental factors (e.g., access controls, automated applications, networked operations, high integrity and availability requirements, multilevel security/processing of multiple classification levels, and processing Sensitive Compartmented Information).
Ensure that security design and cybersecurity development activities are properly documented (providing a functional description of security implementation) and updated as necessary.
Implement and integrate system development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., IBM Rational Unified Process) into development environment.
Employ configuration management processes.
Design, implement, test, and evaluate secure interfaces between information systems, physical systems, and/or embedded technologies.
Design, develop, integrate, and update system security measures that provide confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
Design to security requirements to ensure requirements are met for all systems and/or applications.
Develop mitigation strategies to address cost, schedule, performance, and security risks.
Perform an information security risk assessment.
Perform security reviews and identify security gaps in architecture.
Provide input to implementation plans and standard operating procedures as they relate to information systems security.
Trace system requirements to design components and perform gap analysis.
Verify stability, interoperability, portability, and/or scalability of system architecture.

System Administrator

Responsible for setting up and maintaining a system or specific components of a system (e.g. for example, installing, configuring, and updating hardware and software; establishing and managing user accounts; overseeing or conducting backup and recovery tasks; implementing operational and technical security controls; and adhering to organizational security policies and procedures).

#Job Openings

153,523

Sample Tasks

Conduct functional and connectivity testing to ensure continuing operability.
Design group policies and access control lists to ensure compatibility with organizational standards, business rules, and needs.
Develop and document systems administration standard operating procedures.

Sample Knowledge

Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.

Sample Skills

Skill in configuring and optimizing software.
Skill in diagnosing connectivity problems.
Ability to accurately define incidents, problems, and events in the trouble ticketing system.

Systems Security Analyst

Security Architect

Information Systems Security Developer