The ISSO will support systems and security engineering and integration to specific Government-sponsored projects, pilots and prototypes. This includes solution planning and engineering, defining security requirements, target architecture, interoperability and integration, system testing, Verification and Validation, Modeling and Simulation, studies and analysis, post-deployment security validation (PDSV), and project risk management. As part of this effort, you will serve as an Information Systems Security Officer who will support the Agile processes in defining security requirements, translating RMF related governance and policies as well as supporting the reduction of cybersecurity risks to our customer's environments.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Managing all aspects of an organization's information security system, for classified and unclassified systems, including researching, testing, training and implementing programs designed to safeguard sensitive information from any possible breaches.
- Understanding the Risk Management Framework (RMF), and how risk management is executed, what risk means, and how to analyze it.
- Spearheading Authority to Operate (ATO) and/or Authority to Proceed (ATP) efforts while making independent recommendations to Government Leads during these processes.
- Conducting risk analysis from vulnerability and compliance scans, pen testing results, or other audit activity.
- Creating written works to include but not limited to Plan of Action and Milestones, System Security Plans, System Specific Policies and Procedures, Configuration Management Plans, Contingency Plans and Test Results, Business Impact Analyses, and Security Impact Analyses.
- Participating in Agile Planning Events to provide technical input.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in a technical discipline and 7+ years work experience or equivalent experience or 10 years related work experience, to include:
Clearance Requirements:
- Position requires at minimum a Secret Clearance, must have the ability to be cleared up to the TS/SCI level
Technical Requirements:
- Experience executing the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) and applying security practices found in NIST publications. (i.e. SP 800-53, SP 800-30, SP 800-60, FIPS 199, FIPS 140-2, etc.)
- Experience documenting System Security Plans to include security control implementation statements.
- Experience conducting periodic reviews of implementation statements to ensure persistent compliance with applicable government and agency level policies in addition to ISO and NIST standards.
- Experience validating the implementation of security controls within a cloud environment (AWS or Azure).
- Supporting the security assessment and authorization (or ATO) process.
- Analyzing testing results from scans, audits, penetration tests, or other test efforts to determine risk levels.
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability management tools such as Tenable Nessus and Security Center.
- Conducting Continuous Monitoring and maintaining the security posture of IT systems within on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Knowledgeable on one or more cloud computing services and technologies including but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware, etc.
- Familiarization with the Microsoft Office 365 Suite. (i.e. Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel, etc.)
Preffered Skills/Qualifications:
- Cyber program experience within federal customer space a plus!
- Familiarization with Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe), agile development principles, and DevSecOps methodologies are a plus!
- Experience with managing vulnerabilities on virtualized IT systems and assets or virtual machines (i.e. VDI and VMware.) is a plus!
- Experience with SAFe Agile tools like Jira, Jira Align, or ServiceNow.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS, Microsoft Azure, CISA, CAP, and SAFe 6 are highly desired.
Equal employment opportunity employer:
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