About Taurean
Taurean is a mission-driven defensive cyber operations firm delivering security engineering, risk management, and compliance execution for federal and regulated environments. Our teams protect operational systems, sensitive data, and high-assurance environments through disciplined engineering, structured compliance frameworks, and operational rigor.
Guided by our vision — Find Relevant Work. Create Meaningful Jobs. Transform Lives — for the Glory of God! — we build teams grounded in accountability, professional growth, and purposeful contribution. Our culture emphasizes strong leadership, family-first principles, and continuous development within a collaborative, performance-focused environment.
About the Role
You will serve as a key member of our team and our lead technical engineer supporting technology assessment, integration testing, evaluation, pilot execution and transition for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). You will work independently or with minimal oversight to turn emerging technologies into tested, documented capabilities for Government decision-making. This prospective opportunity is contingent on contract award and funding.
Key Responsibilities
- Research technology maturity, commercial use, scalability, security, prior Department of Defense (DoD) deployment, readiness level, pricing and market alternatives; connect each assessment to a defined mission problem.
- Develop architecture views, integration plans, system specifications, hardware/software dependencies, bills of materials and interface documentation, including ports, protocols and services.
- Configure and operationalize evaluation environments using test data and users; develop stakeholder requirements, use cases, measures, work breakdown structures, test plans and reports.
- Identify production deployment constraints, security vulnerabilities and expected pilot costs; prepare evidence supporting Government assessment and evaluation decisions.
- Help plan and execute production or production-like pilots with operational stakeholders, real data and users, defined success criteria and controlled configurations.
- Conduct security assessments and prepare system/security plans, scan results, remediation evidence and Risk Management Framework (RMF) artifacts supporting an Authorization to Operate (ATO); support Authorizing Official briefings.
- Develop pilot findings, transition plans, system design documents, configuration and risk management plans, operating procedures and readiness-review materials.
- Provide qualified backup for routine laboratory system administration within your demonstrated skills and approved access; support maintenance, controlled configuration changes and operational documentation.
- Support handover to receiving organizations through technical exchanges and informal technical/user training.
- Maintain an emerging-technology watchlist with maturity, impact, mission relevance and source references; contribute progress, risks and action-item updates to team reports and reviews.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, plus at least three (3) years of general experience; OR, in lieu of the degree, at least six (6) years of total experience, comprising the three-year experience minimum plus three (3) additional years of directly related experience. Either pathway must also include at least five (5) years of DoD experience. The DoD experience may be included within the total experience.
- Demonstrated ability to perform systems integration testing independently or with minimal oversight.
- Ability to execute technology assessments, architecture/integration documentation, controlled testing, security assessment and technical transition activities.
- Complete required on-the-job training and demonstrate the ability to perform your duties in the assigned Government environment.
Certifications
- Obtain the required DoD 8140 work-role certification within 90 days of contract award. You must meet applicable qualification requirements and obtain Government authorization before performing privileged activities.
- Obtain and maintain a current CompTIA A+, EC-Council CND, CompTIA Network+ or CompTIA Security+ certification for system administration duties.
- Maintain your certification and complete at least 20 hours of continuous professional development annually, or the hours required to maintain your certification, whichever is greater.
- Meet the applicable certification requirements and obtain Government authorization before performing privileged activities.
Technical Environment
Technology assessment and pilot environments; architecture and integration documentation; hardware/software configurations; vulnerability assessment, RMF/ATO artifacts, test planning and configuration management. Specific evaluation products vary by assigned technology.
Schedule & Location
Primary duty location: Fort Meade, Maryland. Support Monday-Friday operations during core hours of 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. TAC support requires daily onsite coverage during core hours; individual attendance is scheduled to maintain that coverage. Any telework is subject to Government approval and mission needs. Federal holidays are normally excluded unless otherwise directed. Local and other domestic travel may be required.
Eligibility & Clearance
U.S. citizenship, an active final Secret clearance and a favorably adjudicated Tier 3 investigation are required before beginning the assigned onsite work. Obtain Government facility/network approvals and credentials before access. Complete required security training and nondisclosure agreements, and follow controlled-information handling requirements.
Apply by Email
Submit your resume for Systems Engineer, supporting DISA in Fort Meade, Maryland. Review the qualifications, eligibility and contingency conditions above before applying.
Do not send classified or controlled Government information. This link opens your email app; attach your documents and send the message to complete your application.
Email Your Application →Or email operations@taurean.net and include the position title and “DISA / Fort Meade” in your subject.
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