Member of Technical Staff

Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics & space operations, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we're leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more.

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We’re fueled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond. And together we enable highly skilled people to continually push boundaries and tackle big challenges requiring solutions that endure and inspire.

Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you

We’re on the hunt for a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) - Systems Security in our Geointelligence Engineering Team at our Richmond office.

Our mission is to turn data into insight. From detecting changes in fragile ecosystems to monitoring northern ice floes and shipping routes, our near-real time data of Earth observation and the environment makes our Geointelligence team a leader in geospatial imagery, ground stations, enterprise geospatial systems and defence programs.

As a member of the Engineering team you will work on our programs such as Chorus Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Satellite, Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope, Aeronautical Navigation products, and Marine Insights products. You will work as part of a technical team to develop new capabilities, enhance existing capabilities and deliver solutions to our customers.

**The Position**

As a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) - Systems Security, you would have responsibilities for security elements of MDA’s Earth Observation space missions, large defence contracts such as CSC and diverse in-house developed products spanning from cloud based geointelligence platforms to our Laser Warning and Countermeasures system.

Excellent internal and external communication skills are necessary in order to work closely with the customer, with other technical teams, and to support the development of robust, secure and cost effective systems.

**Role**

As a member of the Security Engineering team for Geointelligence, you will ensure expert support is provided to various product/project teams to ensure that they address the security target and comply with applicable policies, procedures and standards. You will define the target security posture and/or the security requirements for projects and solutions during their definition and development. You will provide insight into vulnerability management and response within complex information systems.

**Responsibilities**

As a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) - Systems Security, you may have a wide range of responsibilities that include:

- Consulting on the overall system architectures, operations concepts, or system enhancements from a security perspective;
- Develop and maintain all security related system artefacts (e.g. specifications, ICDs, profiles, test documents, vulnerability assessments, threat models, customer reports, etc) from the customer level down to the major subsystem level for projects in development or in-service;
- Derive security requirements, designs, solutions and mechanisms in response to current DND security focus including CSE Security Controls and Directives;
- Develop security acceptance and accreditation programs for Classified systems;
- Support engineering program delivery through the development and generation of security components of documents such as engineering plans, engineering budgets, and design reports;
- Oversee the acceptance plans for security related aspects of the product/system; and
- Support planning and cost estimates for projects and bids.

**Requirements**:
**Mandatory experience and skills**:

- A degree or diploma in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant experience in Systems Security.
- 5+ years working in an engineering or information systems environment;
- Understanding of DND project delivery and execution processes from requirements through commissioning and support;
- Appreciation of the delivery and accreditation process of systems against CSE ITS guidance (e.g. ITSG-11/22/33/38), NDSODs, Canadian EMSEC standards and the Canadian Security Assessment and Authorization Guideline;
- Experience maintaining close working relationships with other system engineers and customer representatives;
- Excellent verbal and written communications and customer interaction skills, and
- Exceptional leadership skills, problem solving abilities and project execution strengths.

**Preferred experience and skills**:

- Experience in accreditation (risk assessment and governance) of Classified systems for DND involving information systems, cross domain solutions and multi-domain interoperability;
- Experience i