Information Assurance Specialist 102502

Information Assurance Specialist

Location: Washington, DC

Required Clearance: Public Trust

ManpowerGroup Public Sector (MGPS) provides Skilled Experts and Leading-Edge Solutions to Support Our Nation’s Most Critical Intelligence, Defense and Civilian Missions.

U.S. Citizenship Mandatory: Due to our US federal government contract, candidates for this position are required to be a US Citizen and will be subject to a background investigation.

Job Description:

The Information Assurance Specialist manages security compliance, architectural safeguards, and systems hardening across our enterprise environments.

• In this role, you will analyze NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and FedRAMP basic categorizations to manage the split of shared security responsibilities between the organization and external providers.
• The ideal candidate will drive technical hardening initiatives by developing and implementing security baselines rooted in CIS Benchmarks.
• You will have deep technical proficiency in deploying security policies across both on-premises and modern environments using Microsoft Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and Microsoft Intune.
• You will oversee key governance and security safeguards—such as access policies (RBAC), data protection, network segmentation, and monitoring—to ensure continuous audit readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Security Baseline Implementation: Implement, manage, and enforce robust security baselines and benchmarks such as CIS Benchmarks and Azure Foundations across enterprise endpoints and server infrastructure.
• Microsoft Group Policy (GPO): Technical expertise to support and audit Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to enforce least privilege, disable insecure legacy protocols, and harden on-premises Windows environments.
• Microsoft Intune Policy Management Configuration: Experience translating traditional GPOs into modern cloud management frameworks using Microsoft Intune Settings Catalogs, Administrative Templates, and Endpoint Security configurations.
• Compliance Mapping & Governance: Aligning technical configuration baselines directly with overarching Information Assurance (IA) frameworks, ensuring that GPO and Intune policy maps cleanly to auditable compliance controls.
• Risk Identification & Assessment: Ability to identify, evaluate, and categorize security risks within organizational systems by analyzing technical configurations against established frameworks (such as NIST SP 800-30 or FedRAMP risk assessments).
• Guide stakeholders in determining and integrating baseline security requirements, advise on viability of alternative approaches.
• Propose remediation/mitigating controls and recommendations to stakeholders and management to minimize risk.
• Lead security team engagements to build and mature processes to produce written Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) with a focus on improvement to FERC’s Information Assurance processes, methodologies, and communication methods.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Must Be US Citizen.
• This position requires 1 to 2 days/week onsite.

MGPS specializes in solving our clients’ diverse linguistic, technical and data management challenges created by the dramatic rise in the volume, variety and complexity of open source data. We harness machine learning, artificial intelligence and the latest data acquisition and mining tools, paired with expert human skills to provide customized solutions for every customer.