Job description
Overview:
**This position’s office location can be either Dulles, VA, or Rockville, MD.** Responsibilities:
Nisga'a Data Systems is honored to provide highly skilled, cleared personnel serving those committed to our national defense, security, and mission across five continents. Nisga'a Data Systems is dedicated to delivering capabilities and services that inspire confidence.
Summary:
Nisga'a Data Systems is seeking a Senior Information Systems Security Officer in either Dulles, VA or Rockville, MD. This program supports our federal customer who plays a key role in providing direct cybersecurity engineering support. This program provides systems and security engineering and integration support 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 team, you will contribute to the engineering of current and emerging cybersecurity systems, policies, and processes to enforce standards and identify vulnerabilities and capability gaps and reduce cybersecurity risk of our customer networks.
**This position’s office location can be either Dulles, VA, or Rockville, MD.**
Essential Job Functions:
- 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
- Must understand the Risk Management Framework, and how risk management is executed, what risk means and how to analyze it
- Drive Authority to Operate (ATO) and/or Authority to Proceed (ATP) efforts and to independently make recommendations to the Government Leads during the process
- Conduct risk analyses from vulnerability, compliance scans, pen testing results, or other audit activity; writes including 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 Participates in Agile Planning Events to provide technical input
Necessary Skills and Knowledge:
- Experience executing the NIST Risk Management Framework Documenting System Security Plans to include security control implementation statements
- Supporting the security assessment and authorization (or ATO) process
- Analyze testing results from scans, audits, penetration tests, or other test efforts to determine risk levels
- Continuous Monitoring and maintaining the security posture of IT systems
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years work experience or equivalent experience or 10 years related work experience
- Active Secret clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cyber program experience within federal customer space a plus Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, CISA, CAP highly desired
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