Cybersecurity SME- Space & Satellite Systems

Cybersecurity SME- Space & Satellite Systems

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Pay From

$150,000 per year

MUST

Experienced Cybersecurity SME- Space & Satellite Systems

Active Secret clearance required

10+ years of cybersecurity leadership experience

3+ years specifically focused on space systems, satellite communications (SATCOM), aerospace, or defense electronics

Deep familiarity with mission-control software, satellite toolkits, and flight dynamics platforms such as NASA’s Core Flight System (cFS) or commercial alternatives (e.g., Major Tom, COSMOS). Proficient in scripting and automation utilizing Python.

Exposure to or familiarity with aerospace modeling, design, and simulation environments like ANSYS (STK), SIEMENS Teamcenter, PTC Windchill and MatLAB

Advanced knowledge of securing government-authorized cloud environments, specifically AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure Government, including high-performance computing (HPC) and secure hybrid-cloud architectures.

Deep understanding of the unique constraints of space environments, including low-power computing limitations on cryptographic protocols and high-latency communication links.

Hands-on experience navigating CMMC, ITAR, EAR, NIST SP 800-53/171, and securing GovCloud or commercial cloud environments.

Experience in dealing with multi-center and vendor programs and implementation

Need to have one of the following certifications

CISSP, CSSLP, or CISM

Bachelors Degree required, Master's Degree preferred

DUTIES

Define Strategy

Author and maintain the company’s comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, including program scope, guiding principles, required capabilities, governance models, and a prioritized implementation roadmap.

Assess Cyber Risk

Identify critical assets, systems, and mission functions that must be protected. Assess threats, vulnerabilities, and complex attack scenarios that could result in mission disruption, asset loss, unauthorized access, or system failure, translating findings into actionable mitigation requirements.

Architect Resilience

Define the technical security architecture and capabilities required to monitor, prevent, detect, and recover from cyberattacks. Establish an integrated defense spanning space, ground, communications, and enterprise segments, emphasizing continuity of operations and mission resilience.

Satellite & Payload Security

Partner with systems engineers to embed hardware and software security controls directly into spacecraft systems and avionics, ensuring engineering resilience against command injection, jamming, side-channel attacks, and spoofing.

Ground Segment Protection

Safeguard mission control centers, telemetry, tracking, and control (TT&C) loops, data pipelines, APIs, and terrestrial ground station networks from advanced persistent threats (APTs).

Launch Site & Physical OT Security

Extend defenses to physical launch pads, fuel systems, and integration facilities. Oversee the strict segregation of IT networks from Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to prevent corporate threats from impacting launch safety.

Space Asset Incident Response

Design, implement, and drill specialized incident response playbooks tailored for in-orbit anomalies, link disruptions, or hostile takeovers of space assets. Must have ability to identify off-nominal events directly .

Secure Software Development

Implement strict DevSecOps and secure software development lifecycles (SDLC) for flight software, guidance systems, and orbital payload applications.

Supply Chain Vetting

Oversee rigorous hardware and software source-code vetting programs. Monitor software supply chains and manage Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to ensure malicious firmware, compromised logic boards (specialized PCBs), or counterfeit chips do not enter the launch vehicle or satellite payload.

Federal Compliance

Lead readiness, execution, and continuous compliance for federal cybersecurity frameworks, including NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-171/172, CMMC, DFARS, and ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations).

Space-Specific Policy

Align corporate policies and operations with space-industry directives, including the White House Space Policy Directive 5 (SPD-5) and relevant NOAA/FCC licensing security requirements.

Supply Chain Integrity

Establish rigorous hardware-trust and supply chain verification programs to prevent the introduction of counterfeit or compromised components into spacecraft and/or satellite builds.

Quadrant is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability. “Healthcare benefits are offered to all eligible employees according to compliance mandated by the Affordable Care Act“.