Zero-Trust & Cybersecurity Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.

$153K — $207K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active Secret clearance required
  • 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity and IT risk management
  • Strong understanding of Zero Trust architecture and cybersecurity principles
  • Experience with identity, access management, and policy enforcement
  • Good analytical problem-solving and technical writing skills

Responsibilities

  • Plan and support MPE network capabilities for USPACOM
  • Analyze network performance and interoperability across partner environments
  • Apply Zero Trust principles to cybersecurity design
  • Align IT modernization with Department of Defense compliance
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to tackle technical challenges
  • Create technical documentation and briefings for leadership

Benefits

  • Flexible work week options
  • 401K plan with company match
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Opportunities for professional growth and paid education
  • Generous paid vacation and holidays
Full Job Description
Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
Cyber and IT Risk Management

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cyber Security Architecture, IT Modernization, Zero Trust Architecture
Certifications:
None
Experience:
8 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Zero-Trust & Cybersecurity Engineer supporting USPACOM J6 enterprise IT, mission partner interoperability, and Pacific theater operations. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

GDIT is seeking a Zero-Trust & Cybersecurity Engineer to support USPACOM J6 MPE Network Engineering activities at JBPH-H, helping modernize enterprise IT capabilities and strengthen mission partner interoperability across the Pacific.

How the Zero-Trust & Cybersecurity Engineer Will Make an Impact
  • Plan, engineer, and support MPE network capabilities aligned to MPE Network Engineering.
  • Analyze network performance, interoperability, and resiliency needs across mission partner environments.
  • Apply Zero Trust principles to network and cybersecurity design decisions, including identity, access, segmentation, visibility, and policy enforcement.
  • Help align modernization efforts with DoW cybersecurity compliance, operational needs, and enterprise architecture direction.
  • Collaborate with USPACOM J6 stakeholders, service components, mission partners, and GDIT team members to resolve technical challenges.
  • Prepare clear technical documentation, briefings, status inputs, and recommendations for customer and internal leadership.


What You'll Need to Succeed
  • Education: Technical training, certification(s), or equivalent experience
  • Required Experience: 8+ years of relevant experience supporting the role, mission area, or equivalent DoW/enterprise IT environment.
  • Required Technical Skills: Zero Trust architecture; cybersecurity engineering; identity and access concepts; segmentation; policy enforcement; DoW compliance.
  • Security Clearance Level: Active Secret.
  • Required Skills and Abilities: Strong communication, analytical problem-solving, technical writing, customer engagement, and ability to coordinate across engineering, cybersecurity, operations, and mission partner teams.
  • Preferred Skills: Experience supporting USPACOM, combatant command, service component, or joint/coalition mission environments. Experience working in government site environments and coordinating with military and civilian stakeholders. DoW 8570/8140-aligned cybersecurity certification or comparable professional certification.
  • Location: On customer site at JBPH-H.


GDIT Is Your Place
  • Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home, when eligible and approved.
  • 401K with company match.
  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
  • Professional growth opportunities, internal mobility, paid education, and certifications.
  • Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays.


#DefendTheIndoPacific

The likely salary range for this position is $153,000 - $207,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
None

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA HI Hickam AFB

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

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