About this opportunity
ACQCENTRIC INC lists this Information Systems Security Manager - Basic (ISSM-Basic) opportunity in huntsville, Alabama. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Description
The candidate will be supporting a Cyber Compliance Team providing ISSM-Basic support for tactical systems. The person will be a key member of a team performing Hardware and Software Cybersecurity analysis along with key functions supporting the Risk Management Framework (RMF) Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process for data processing, test, and tactical systems. Candidate must be able to prioritize competing requirements for time and resources and be able to adjudicate resource requirements based on understanding of Government customer and mission needs.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Provide accurate technical evaluations of the equipment, software applications, full systems, or network and documenting the security posture, capabilities, and vulnerabilities against applicable NIST controls.
Selecting and assessing security controls, timely completion of accreditation packages, formulating and implementing mitigations and maintaining the security posture of systems.
Must have experience with eMASS and initiating, updating, and maintaining RMF packages.
Identify, assess, make risk mitigation recommendations, and document system security threats/risks throughout a system’s lifecycle; validate system security requirements; formulate and maintain documentation and system certification and accreditation activities (planning, testing, assessing and coordinating).
Ability to work with system developer to update, maintain, and track RMF and POA&M documentation.
Documenting preliminary or residual security risks for system operation and manage and approve Authorization Packages.
Monitoring and evaluating a system's compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) security, resilience, and dependability requirements including performing validation steps, comparing actual results with expected results, and analyzing the differences to identify impacts and risks at the software application, system, and network levels.
Work with teams to provide solutions and to ensure continued functionality of systems within DoD RMF Framework.
Requirements
Qualifications
U.S. Citizen
Must possess and maintain a US Secret security clearance. Top Secret, SCI eligible, security clearance is a plus.
Required Skills / Experience
Meet DoDD 8140 ISSM-Basic certification, education, and experience compliance.
Associates degree (Engineering, IT or Cyber-related field)
Experience with implementing and evaluating DoD STIG requirements, NIST RMF, IAVMs and Cybersecurity assessment tools (ACAS, Nessus, SCC, STIG Viewer)
Knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process and NIST security controls
Knowledge of information system architecture and standards as they apply to cyber security
Knowledge of NIST SP 800-160, Systems Security Engineering
Preferred Skills / Experience
Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering, IT or Cyber-related field)
Strong desire to contribute to overall team success
Excellent written and oral communication skills
High degree of proficiency in MS Office Suite
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Worksite address
huntsville, AL, 35824, US
Who can apply
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