Technical Product Security Manager Job Description

Maxar is looking for a Technical Product Security Manager to join our team in Westminster, CO. This is a Product Development and Innovation role and we are looking for someone to join our team to establish, implement, and manage our line of business operating within multiple portfolios.

Life with Us

Your Mission: We are responsible for a portfolio of products and work with business stakeholders to understand their requirements, define the product capabilities and help create product roadmaps around their unique security requirements. You will have overall ownership of product security development for a given product. This role will enable you to work collaboratively across multiple functional engineering teams to perform technical planning, coordination, and execution of cyber requirements against multiple programs. The successful interaction with management of multiple technical teams is essential. You will understand customer needs and the competitive landscape, as well as the latest technological innovations, in order to help drive and support product offerings. You will be responsible for providing cost inputs to business case creation, facilitating the development of system architecture, technical requirements, design, implementation and testing associated with new and current products and services.

Your Career: We're very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. The Technical Project Management team acts as a liaison between the Product Management team and the Product Engineering team. The breadth of subject matter expertise developed by this role lends itself as a platform of growth within Maxar in either a market facing direction or engineering direction. You will also continue to build expertise in the field of Product Development and Innovation. We offer our team members the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your supervisor, or a mentor, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.

What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.

What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):

• Establish relationships with cross functional teams and Product lines to understand key partners and roadmap.
• Build security requirements to drive Product lines towards multiple security standards.
• Become a key stakeholder for Security Standards, Security Automation, Compliance, and Security Engineering efforts across various cross functional teams.
• Come up to speed on the department's capabilities, understand the technical architecture and direction of the Product lines.
• Work with team leadership to establish current direction and influence future roadmap
• Integrate into various Product lines to establish a feedback/grooming cadence and measurement criteria for delivering successful capabilities.
• Incorporate various security industry requirements into software product lines - ensure the teams and trains have a deep understanding and empathy for security requirements.
• Provide leadership to the Product Lines around security requirements, architecture, and engineering to help define best practices and professional excellence.
• Technical planning, coordination, and execution of cyber requirements against multiple programs.
• Hold regular working sessions among multiple stakeholders at Maxar to establish successful execution of engineering efforts against IA requirements towards A&A.
• Hold working sessions with engineering teams to drive end-to-end delivery of artifacts against A&A.
• Assist in curating a repeatable process in curating repeatable solutions where applicable.
• Consult against multi program and ability to prioritize based on top level priorities.
• Help define and set strategy against multiple technical platforms to include data flow, security accreditation boundary, security scanning expectations.
• Provide expertise with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process and its application across multiple portfolios.
• Drive schedules around ATO activities to include: Assessment and Authorization (A&A) deliverables, Security Control Traceability Matrix (SCTM) and Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M).
• Work with cross functional teams to generate artifacts for software/hardware authorizations, network diagrams, and system security plans.
• Oversees the design, development and implementation of countermeasures, systems integration and tools specific to cyber and information operations.

Minimum requirements for this position:

• Must be U.S. citizen and be willing and able to obtain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
• 8+ years of experience in Information Assurance
• Understanding of Agile methodologies; specifically frequent, iterative releases that rely on customer feedback to refine features over time.
• Created/Designed Systems Security Architectures at the Engineering Level.
• Diverse hands-on experience working with the following technologies or teams working with:
  • Linux/Windows OS environments
  • AWS Environments and Accounts
  • Git for version control to incorporate scanning across multiple environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across a geographically diverse team.

Preferred skills:

• IAT Level III, certified
• Familiarity operating in AWS or cloud-based environment.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively coordinate work and communication across disparate groups of individuals and levels in the organization. Understanding of product and software development processes and agile methodologies
• Experience with secure product design - focusing on customer data confidentiality and integrity to ensure privacy and meet cybersecurity compliance.
• Previous experience with hands on engineering in one of the follows domains: Systems Administration, Systems Engineering, Cyber Engineering or DevOps Engineering.

Our salary ranges are market-driven and set to allow for flexibility. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate's unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:

Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.