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Job Description
Title: Information System Security Manager II (ISSM2)
Location: Washington Navy Yard and NSWC Crane, Indiana (Contractor Sites)
Clearance Requirement: Active Secret at time of award; must remain eligible for Top Secret
Reports To: AFORGE Program Manager
Position Overview:
The Information System Security Manager II supports cybersecurity governance, RMF authorization, security-control validation, and continuous monitoring for iPDM, IWS 5, and related Task Area 3 systems. The position authors and reviews cybersecurity plans and evidence, coordinates security activities across system elements, and protects Government IT and digital environments throughout their lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
• Support system categorization, control selection and tailoring, implementation, assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring in accordance with DoDI 8510.01 and Government direction.
• Develop, review, and maintain applicable RMF artifacts, including security plans, assessment evidence, POA&Ms, inventories, diagrams, control implementation statements, and authorization-package records.
• Apply and validate DISA STIG checklists and coordinate credentialed ACAS and SCAP assessments, manual checks, findings adjudication, and remediation verification.
• Assess outside applications proposed for migration into the iPDM authorization boundary, including components, interfaces, data flows, vulnerabilities, dependencies, and control inheritance.
• Support IWS 5 systems in acquiring and maintaining ATOs; prepare evidence and recommendations for Government cybersecurity authorities and the designated AO.
• Monitor vulnerabilities, configuration changes, POA&M milestones, evidence currency, and significant-change impacts throughout authorization sustainment.
• Coordinate incident reporting, access control, audit, configuration management, risk assessments, and cybersecurity training as assigned.
• Communicate security risk, remediation priorities, residual risk, and authorization status to technical and Government leadership.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university, CNSSI 4012 certificate, ADQ GA7, or successful completion of one of the qualifying military training courses identified in Attachment 05 or a Government-accepted DoD Service equivalent.
• Three to five years of validated specialized experience in Specialty Area 72, Information Systems Security Management.
• Current CompTIA Security+ CE or CASP certification.
• Ability to complete and maintain applicable Cybersecurity Workforce qualification and OJT requirements within Government-directed timelines, including the applicable NAVEDTRA pathway.
• Ability to maintain at least 40 continuing-education hours annually while assigned to the Cybersecurity Workforce.
• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance at the time of award and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.
• Ability to support contractor sites serving the Washington Navy Yard and NSWC Crane.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Six or more years of relevant cybersecurity or ISSM experience.
• Experience with DoDI 8510.01 RMF, Navy authorization processes, STIGs, ACAS, SCAP, POA&Ms, and continuous monitoring.
• Experience supporting iPDM, IWS 5, Navy product-data systems, or application migration into an accredited boundary.
About AFORGE:
AFORGE is a federal contractor providing innovative solutions and engineering services to the DOD and Intel space. AFORGE is a well-respected, up-and-coming veteran owned small business with approximately 50 employees and growing. Our philosophy is to provide our employees with a rewarding career in support of the warfighter.
Location: Washington Navy Yard and NSWC Crane, Indiana (Contractor Sites)
Clearance Requirement: Active Secret at time of award; must remain eligible for Top Secret
Reports To: AFORGE Program Manager
Position Overview:
The Information System Security Manager II supports cybersecurity governance, RMF authorization, security-control validation, and continuous monitoring for iPDM, IWS 5, and related Task Area 3 systems. The position authors and reviews cybersecurity plans and evidence, coordinates security activities across system elements, and protects Government IT and digital environments throughout their lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
• Support system categorization, control selection and tailoring, implementation, assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring in accordance with DoDI 8510.01 and Government direction.
• Develop, review, and maintain applicable RMF artifacts, including security plans, assessment evidence, POA&Ms, inventories, diagrams, control implementation statements, and authorization-package records.
• Apply and validate DISA STIG checklists and coordinate credentialed ACAS and SCAP assessments, manual checks, findings adjudication, and remediation verification.
• Assess outside applications proposed for migration into the iPDM authorization boundary, including components, interfaces, data flows, vulnerabilities, dependencies, and control inheritance.
• Support IWS 5 systems in acquiring and maintaining ATOs; prepare evidence and recommendations for Government cybersecurity authorities and the designated AO.
• Monitor vulnerabilities, configuration changes, POA&M milestones, evidence currency, and significant-change impacts throughout authorization sustainment.
• Coordinate incident reporting, access control, audit, configuration management, risk assessments, and cybersecurity training as assigned.
• Communicate security risk, remediation priorities, residual risk, and authorization status to technical and Government leadership.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university, CNSSI 4012 certificate, ADQ GA7, or successful completion of one of the qualifying military training courses identified in Attachment 05 or a Government-accepted DoD Service equivalent.
• Three to five years of validated specialized experience in Specialty Area 72, Information Systems Security Management.
• Current CompTIA Security+ CE or CASP certification.
• Ability to complete and maintain applicable Cybersecurity Workforce qualification and OJT requirements within Government-directed timelines, including the applicable NAVEDTRA pathway.
• Ability to maintain at least 40 continuing-education hours annually while assigned to the Cybersecurity Workforce.
• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance at the time of award and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.
• Ability to support contractor sites serving the Washington Navy Yard and NSWC Crane.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Six or more years of relevant cybersecurity or ISSM experience.
• Experience with DoDI 8510.01 RMF, Navy authorization processes, STIGs, ACAS, SCAP, POA&Ms, and continuous monitoring.
• Experience supporting iPDM, IWS 5, Navy product-data systems, or application migration into an accredited boundary.
About AFORGE:
AFORGE is a federal contractor providing innovative solutions and engineering services to the DOD and Intel space. AFORGE is a well-respected, up-and-coming veteran owned small business with approximately 50 employees and growing. Our philosophy is to provide our employees with a rewarding career in support of the warfighter.
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