ISSO/Infosec Specialist

Responsibilities

• Provide support for a program, organization, system, or enclave's information assurance program.

• Provide support for proposing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.

• Maintain operational security posture for an information system or program to ensure information systems security policies, standards, and procedures are established and followed.

• Evaluate security solutions to ensure they meet security requirements for processing sensitive data types.

• Perform vulnerability/risk assessment analysis to support certification and accreditation.

• Provide configuration management for information system security software, hardware, and firmware.

• Manage changes to system and assesses the security impact of those changes.

• Perform risk assessments.

Minimum Requirements

• Active Secret clearance (or higher).

• Security certification (or CISSP).

• Analytical and creative problem-solving skills to resolve information security challenges.

• Interpersonal skills to interact with customers, senior level personnel, and team members.

• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both business and technical sides of the business.

• Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD, Master 3 years' related work experience, 9 years' related work experience, etc.).

• Attention to detail.

Desired Requirements

• Experience taking a system to ATO and reauthorization of systems.

• Experience with audit reduction tools.

• Microsoft Intune and Purvue.

• Palo alto firewalls and endpoint software.

• Linux.

• Experience performing risk assessments.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to work onsite in our Manassas VA facility 4 days a week.