Winter 2025 Technical Co-op - Cyber Security Engineer

at  LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS IN QUEBEC

Knowledge of the English language is required for this role as the position described in this posting requires the candidate to communicate every day with a virtual team outside Quebec as well as communicate with different members of the organization, clients and suppliers located outside of Canada. For engineering positions, the candidate must also be able to read or modify technical documents from our main clients and write technical documents for these same clients.

ABOUT US

Lockheed Martin Canada is the Canadian-based arm of Lockheed Martin Corporation, a global security and aerospace company employing 115,000 people worldwide, including more than 1,300 Canadians. By applying innovative approaches of our highly skilled and experienced Canadian workforce, we have been Canada’s trusted defence and aerospace partner for over 80 years. We operate major facilities in Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Calgary and Victoria and work on a wide range of programs from advanced naval technology products and unmanned systems software to providing delivery and in-service support of the latest military aircraft to commercial engine repair and overhaul capabilities. This position is part of the Rotary and Mission Systems business area, where employees across Canada support engineering, systems integration, training, sustainment and in-service support programs for Canadian and international military customers across land, air and sea.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The candidate will participate as a Cyber Architect member of the Naval Development team in a multi-disciplined team environment to perform tasks such as requirements verification and validation, support security testing activities, issue analysis and resolution related to multiple subsystems.

The Cyber Architect will develop cybersecurity solutions to assure the confidentiality, availability and integrity of the information systems on national and international programs. This will include the creation of cybersecurity architectures and other security artefacts for multiple information systems including:

• System needs for security
• Access control systems and methodology
• Encryption
• System hardening
• Network security
• Continuous monitoring
• Centralized audit
• Tamper proofing
• Traceability to security standards and guidelines
• Working in an Agile team environment.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE ROLE

• Current student in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or substantially similar program
• Aptitude for programming and debugging with the latest tools in an Object-Oriented environment
• Understanding of Information Technology (IT) Security Risk Management: A Lifecycle Approach (ITSG-33)
• Experience implementing, configuring and maintaining IT Security equipment such as firewalls, content inspectors and high assurance guards
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical members of the engineering/management staff and personnel assigned to related work
• Aptitude for solving challenging problems in a team environment
• Have a high degree of initiative and autonomy
• Have a high learning ability
• Ability to adapt and perform in a dynamic environment
• Available for 4 months starting January 2025
• Eligible for NATO Secret clearance in a timely manner.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS DESIRED FOR THE ROLE

• Knowledge of programming in Java and C++
• Active Security Clearance will be considered an asset.