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Top Secret
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
Unspecified
IT - Networking
Fort Eisenhower, GA (On-Site/Office)
This is an onsite role at Fort Eisenhower in Augusta, GA.
As a Sr. Cyber Defense Specialist, you perform all procedures necessary to ensure the safety of information systems assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction. Monitor, evaluate, and maintain systems and procedures to safeguard internal information systems, network, databases, and Web-based security.
Job Duties:
Security Policy Expertise:
• Develops recommended new or updated local policies, procedures, and standards.
• Stays current with policies and provides recommendations for new or updates to local policies, procedures and standards based on NIST 800-53 standards, headquarter changes, and best practices.
• Provides in a timely manner, summary advisory and assessment reports outlining the effects of policy changes or recommendations to local policies.
• Provides in a timely manner, a Policy Change Summary Report for the development of new or updated policies, procedures, standards, strategies, network architecture, etc.
Vulnerability Management Expertise:
• Utilize ACAS to scan systems, review scan results, prioritize vulnerabilities.
• Create in a timely manner, customized reports to recommend the best course of action to mitigate newly found vulnerabilities.
• Disseminate in a timely manner, system scan results to technical team leads to facilitate system patching.
• Develops and tracks Plans of Actions and Milestones (POA&M) items to resolution in support of IA compliance.
Security Assessment and Authorization Expertise:
• Conducts RMF compliant Security Assessment and Authorization (SA&A) in line with NIST and client guidance and directives for new and existing applications, systems, and programs, including evaluation of organizational policies, procedures, and security measures and provide recommendations to system stakeholders for appropriate mitigation techniques or strategies in support of risk acceptance decisions.
• Submit all required documentation for obtaining an Authorization to Operate/Connect to the Approving Officer.
• Maintain Xacta records and RMF artifacts to support system accreditation.
• Provide monthly status reports of SA&A activities.
Required Skills / Experience:
• 5 years of related experience in Information Assurance with at least 3 years of experience within each expertise area of security policy, vulnerability management, and security assessment and authorization.
• In depth knowledge and experience implementing NIST guidance relating to SA&A, including System Security Plans, Security Test & Evaluation Plans, Risk Assessments, Contingency Plans, and Business Impact Analysis, and applying applicable standards and guidance to managed systems.
• Active DoD Top Secret security clearance
As a Sr. Cyber Defense Specialist, you perform all procedures necessary to ensure the safety of information systems assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction. Monitor, evaluate, and maintain systems and procedures to safeguard internal information systems, network, databases, and Web-based security.
Job Duties:
Security Policy Expertise:
• Develops recommended new or updated local policies, procedures, and standards.
• Stays current with policies and provides recommendations for new or updates to local policies, procedures and standards based on NIST 800-53 standards, headquarter changes, and best practices.
• Provides in a timely manner, summary advisory and assessment reports outlining the effects of policy changes or recommendations to local policies.
• Provides in a timely manner, a Policy Change Summary Report for the development of new or updated policies, procedures, standards, strategies, network architecture, etc.
Vulnerability Management Expertise:
• Utilize ACAS to scan systems, review scan results, prioritize vulnerabilities.
• Create in a timely manner, customized reports to recommend the best course of action to mitigate newly found vulnerabilities.
• Disseminate in a timely manner, system scan results to technical team leads to facilitate system patching.
• Develops and tracks Plans of Actions and Milestones (POA&M) items to resolution in support of IA compliance.
Security Assessment and Authorization Expertise:
• Conducts RMF compliant Security Assessment and Authorization (SA&A) in line with NIST and client guidance and directives for new and existing applications, systems, and programs, including evaluation of organizational policies, procedures, and security measures and provide recommendations to system stakeholders for appropriate mitigation techniques or strategies in support of risk acceptance decisions.
• Submit all required documentation for obtaining an Authorization to Operate/Connect to the Approving Officer.
• Maintain Xacta records and RMF artifacts to support system accreditation.
• Provide monthly status reports of SA&A activities.
Required Skills / Experience:
• 5 years of related experience in Information Assurance with at least 3 years of experience within each expertise area of security policy, vulnerability management, and security assessment and authorization.
• In depth knowledge and experience implementing NIST guidance relating to SA&A, including System Security Plans, Security Test & Evaluation Plans, Risk Assessments, Contingency Plans, and Business Impact Analysis, and applying applicable standards and guidance to managed systems.
• Active DoD Top Secret security clearance
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