COMSEC Custodian

Primary Responsibilities

• Administers, maintains, and manages an NSA COMSEC account.
• Maintains software upgrades, keying, and battery check-out of all Controlled Cryptographic Item (CCI) equipment as required.
• Ships and receives COMSEC keying material and CCI equipment for the SCO's and Coalition Partners to COMSEC hand receipt holders located in the AOR.
• Responsible for the operational and administrative coordination and tasks associated with the management of crypto nets supporting SOUTHCOM.
• Reviews the communication annexes of OPLANs, OPORDs, COMPLANs, and CONOPs as required in support of exercise and real-world operations.
• Issues COMSEC call out messages in support of exercises and operations as required.
• Conducts annual, semi-annual, and special occasion COMSEC account inventories.
• Serves as the COMSEC command authority and controlling authority for all SOUTHCOM controlled key material to include maintaining all files and issuing the monthly COMSEC effective status message.
• Ensures the destruction of keying material and turn-in of CCI equipment as required.
• Plans, coordinates, fields, and installs CCI at the SCOs and Coalition Partner Nations in the SOUTHCOM AOR as required and to support crypto modernization.

Required Qualifications

• Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution; commensurate level of experience can be substituted for education requirement.
• Must have a DoD Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) training dated 2015 or newer.
• Eight (8) years of IT/COMSEC custodian experience.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Desired Qualifications / Experience

• Experience working in the SOUTHCOM environment.
• Proficient at reading and writing and speaking in Spanish.