Standard Job Description

Join the Classified Cyber Security team as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) supporting Department of Defense (DoD) programs to ensure classified information systems meet cyber security requirements and government directives. Apply cutting-edge cybersecurity principles and participate in the planning of current and future security domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance to governing documents and security policies and assist in regulatory periodic assessments.
• Implement and test state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database solutions.
• Stay current with system vulnerabilities and provides current security training to all system users.
• Conduct risk assessments and provides recommendations for secure implementation and compliance in accordance with government regulations and information assurance/cybersecurity guidelines.
• Create, maintain and submit information system security documents and reports to regulatory agencies.
• Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Validate system security requirements definition and analysis; establishes system security documentation;
• Assist with the implementation of security procedures; verifies information system security requirements;
• Perform information system certification and accreditation planning, testing, assessing and liaison activities.
• Familiar with information system security architectural documentation standards.
• Apply information assurance / cyber security standards, directives, guidance and policies to an architectural/risk based framework.
• Provide architectural / risk based analysis of information assurance / cyber security features and relate existing system to future needs and trends and requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• Top Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years
• DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level III baseline certification (CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP) 
• Hands on technical experience with industry standard Information Assurance tools (Splunk, Nessus/Tenable/ACAS, STIGViewer/SCAP Compliance Checker/eSTIG, McAfee ePO, McAfee DLP, etc)
• Experience with developing, reviewing and maintaining RMF artifacts

Desired Skills

• Experience implementing new and complex technologies at multiple classification levels within large environments and at an Enterprise level
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice.
• Experience working directly with government stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience ensuring that cyber security requirements are properly defined, decomposed, allocated, assessed, and implemented into a system architecture to produce a cyber-resilient security design solution for the target platform.