Cyber Security Engineer DE 2025

ABB Engineering Position

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This Position reports to: Team Leader

Job Summary

Design authority for an engineering discipline with low to medium complexity. Complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects, costeffectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements.

Main Accountabilities

Technical contribution:

• Evaluates, selects, and applies standard techniques and procedures to perform engineering assignments.
• Provides technical support for testing, installation, and commissioning activities.
• Prepares project documentation within one's scope of deliverables.

Customer and Sales:

• Finalizes 'Fail-Safe Philosophy' and other key concepts as part of Kick-Off and Design Freeze Meetings.
• Actively participates project meetings and resolves any outstanding technical issues to meet contractual obligations.
• Assists in preparing proposal/presentation of engineering projects/programs (provision of bills of materials, estimated engineering hours, etc.).

Technical leadership and knowledge sharing:

• Applies basic Design Thinking / Design for Excellence concepts in projects.
• Actively utilizes checklists to perform design verification according to applicable standards and engineering guidelines.
• Contributes and shares experiences in workshops pertaining to engineering design, tools, and processes.
• Shares best practices Lessons-Learned documentation across different projects and disciplines.

Processes and tools:

• Uses standard processes and tools applicable to one's area of responsibility.
• Ensures that engineering activities comply with required safety regulations and contractual requirements.
• Reports processes and tools inefficiencies and suggests improvements ideas.

Risk and opportunity management:

• Supports technical risk assessments and implements resulting actions for one's projects.
• Reports any contract / safety / quality / program / cost issues to Project Manager(s) for resolution.

Contract management:

• Ensures Bill of Material (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations and project gross margin requirements by not generating Project Left-Over Material (PLOM).
• Identifies and implements variation requests to support contract claims based on the approval from Project Manager.

Planning and control:

• Follows work plans and cost estimates provided by the Project Manager and ensures quality deliverables on time and at targeted cost.

Supply Chain management:

• Collaborates with the Supply Chain function and the Project Manager(s) to meet the contractual obligations.

Manufacturing and Testing:

• Coordinates with Manufacturing and Testing functions to ensure the technical solutions are appropriately manufactured/staged and tested.
• Updates the engineering deliverables as-built.

Commissioning and Service:

• Coordinates with Commissioning / Service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned (if applicable as part of the contract).
• Updates the engineering deliverables post installation & commissioning (if applicable).

Required Competencies

• Ability to set up physical or local sub-networks that separate internal Local Area Networks (LAN) from other untrusted networks
• Knowledge of host/network access control mechanisms
• Knowledge of server and client operating systems configuration and administration
• Knowledge of system hardening techniques
• Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, DHCP and DNS
• Assess the effectiveness of Cyber Security measures utilized by systems
• Apply cybersecurity functions (e.g., encryption, access control, and identity management) to reduce exploitation opportunities
• Conduct functional and connectivity testing to ensure continuing operability
• Identify, assess, and recommend cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products for use within a system and ensure that recommended products are in compliance with organization's evaluation and validation requirements
• Implement security designs for new or existing system(s)
• Implement specific cybersecurity countermeasures for systems and/or applications
• Install and maintain network infrastructure device operating system software (e.g., IOS, firmware)
• Patch network vulnerabilities to ensure that information is safeguarded against outside parties.
• Determine and document software patches or the extent of releases that would leave software vulnerable
• Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes
• Provide feedback on network requirements, including network architecture and infrastructure
• Provide cybersecurity guidance to leadership
• Provide input to implementation plans and standard operating procedures
• Translate functional requirements into technical solutions
• Knowledge of resiliency and redundancy of systems
• Knowledge of installation, integration, and optimization of system components
• Knowledge of remote access technology concepts.
• Knowledge of server diagnostic tools and fault identification techniques.
• Knowledge of systems testing and evaluation methods.
• Knowledge of technology integration processes.
• Knowledge of Virtual Private Network (VPN) security.
• Knowledge of network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, nslookup)
• Knowledge of command-line tools (e.g., mkdir, mv, ls, passwd, grep).
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies and virtual machine development and maintenance.
• Knowledge of network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).
• Knowledge of demilitarized zones.
• Knowledge of network security (e.g., encryption, firewalls, authentication, honey pots, perimeter protection).
• Knowledge of network security implementations (e.g., host-based IDS, IPS, access control lists), including their function and placement in a network.
• Knowledge of satellite-based communication systems.

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