Cyber Security Engineer

CHAOS Inc. is a global technology company that is delivering next generation capabilities to the defense and critical industrial sectors. Founded in 2022 by a seasoned leadership team, CHAOS has quickly become the place where world-class multi-disciplinary engineers come to build mission-critical technologies. CHAOS has a mission-focused culture, dedicated to solving the toughest technical challenges. Its unique agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping, while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the company’s subject matter expert on all cyber security efforts for Product and IT; create and implement cyber and systems security controls across CHAOS products
• Provide inputs for planning & scheduling security measures as well as assess risks, threats, and vulnerabilities of company products
• Ensure architectures for product security meet all applicable certifications & requirements
• Advise stakeholders on maintaining product security and certification while providing guidance/mentorship to internal teams to better-understand compliance issues and assessment findings
• Support internal/external security process/product audits and assess tools security readiness
• Drive and support engineering activities according to security standards during all project phases (concept, product development, product design, development, validation, production)
• Seek out opportunities to automate where appropriate
• Work full-time onsite out of our Hermosa Beach office

Minimum Requirements:

• 10+ years of technical cybersecurity experience involving 5 - 10 major projects related to items below
• Experience with development and execution of a prioritized strategy, roadmap, staffing, and investments necessary to continually advance product security capabilities
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing IT architectures including multiple different networks with different access requirements and standards, e.g. IT solutions for both government and commercial use cases
• Experience in threat and security assessments
• Experience with OS deployment, management, and administration of servers, workstations, and laptops in Windows and Linux (e.g. RHEL/Ubuntu) environments, both on-site and remote
• Experience working with and building cross-functional teams & partnerships with multiple stakeholders within the company, engineering and test

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in an information technology field
• Experience working with government customers and government programs
• Experience with FEDRAMP-compliant cloud work (e.g. Microsoft GCC High, Amazon Gov Cloud, etc)
• Experience with planning and implementing IT infrastructure that meets DFARS government compliance standards, (e.g. ability to handle controlled unclassified information, CUI)
• Experience in system and component level cyber test and evaluation
• Experience with PowerShell automation and advanced active directory
• Experience with DevSecOps (e.g. Docker, Artifactory, git, Ansible)
• Experience standing up air-gapped classified IT computing environments
• Scripting and development experience to automate IT processes (e.g. Ansible, Python)
• Experience with STIGs compliance including OS Hardening
• Experience conducting threat modeling using frameworks like STRIDE, PASTA, or Attack Trees against server architecture + advisement to engineering teams on how to mitigate identified threats
• CISSP certification or Security + certification
• DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance

Why CHAOS?

• Health Benefits: Your medical, dental and vision benefits will be 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits: life, FSA, HSA, 401k (+ Company match), and more
• Our Perks: free lunch every day, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO (for exempt employees), casual dress code, beautiful office location in Hermosa Beach with ocean views!
• Compensation Components: competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance + (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Company Size: 45 employees and counting!
• More About Us: We're building the next generation of aerospace, defense and critical industry technologies with a seasoned team of mission-focused individuals. We were founded in June 2022 and our goal is to become the platform where world-class engineers come to solve critical, real-world problems. We use agile engineering approaches which enable rapid prototyping, deep partnerships with the defense industry ensuring real-world application, and our newly-invented Coherence platform (through which we’ve made a fundamental breakthrough) improves sensor performance and decision-making in real-time. As of September, 2023 we have raised ~$100M with 8VC as a leading investor. With a managing team that includes Epirus’ founding members (responsible for building a $1.5B company from scratch) + key drivers from Palantir (instrumental in Palantir’s growth to $1B in revenue), we are well-positioned to become one of the fastest growing companies to date!

The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.