Senior Information Security Engineer

Position: Sr. Information Security Engineer

Location: Remote in North America

About the Company

goTenna is the world’s leading mobile mesh networking company and provider of off-grid connectivity solutions for smartphones and other devices. goTenna’s innovative mesh networking protocol is embedded into a lightweight, low-cost tactical radio devices and paired with easy-to-use mobile apps, enabling off-grid, long-range connectivity even without cell, WiFi or satellite.

We are venture-backed, customer-obsessed, and growth-oriented. The next few years promise to be an adventure and we are looking for top talent interested in coming along for the ride.

About the Role

goTenna is seeking an Information Security professional to help the company achieve security authorizations (ATTs/ATOs) and accreditations for our products and company IT infrastructure. This highly visible position provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to expanding goTenna’s customer base of government agencies with high-security requirements.

As a member of our senior technical staff, the InfoSec Engineer will be responsible for maintaining the security of our IT infrastructure/products and helping us to achieve various information security compliance certifications. In this position, you will have company-wide oversight of security and will work with teams (and consultants) to ensure security best practices are maintained across the organization. In this role you will:

• Drive information security compliance initiatives and ensure implementation.
• Have oversight of our IT consultants, ensuring that our IT infrastructure is maintained according to security best practices.
• Be the subject matter expert for information security.

If you are a person who enjoys working in a creative startup environment and is excited about playing an important role in our company's success, this role is for you.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain Authorization and Accreditation packages to include System Security Plans, Authorization Boundary Diagrams, Information Security Threat modeling and other required deliverables.
• Field complex compliance questions from stakeholders throughout the company.
• Play a key role in producing, updating, maintaining and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies. Enforcement includes direct oversight of IT consultants and testing of critical cybersecurity controls.
• Planning and execution of cybersecurity practices.
• Identify and evaluate information security risks; implement IT process solutions that mitigate those risks.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, information security, or computer science, or 6 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with design, implementation, compliance, and testing of cybersecurity controls.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• DOD information security compliance experience.
• Familiarity with cloud security services, concepts, and best practices.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience managing IT documentation processes.
• IT project management experience.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvement.

Citizenship Requirement: U.S. Citizen

Clearance Requirement: Secret or Top-Secret clearance preferred, but not required

goTenna is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.