Information System Security Eng (ISSE) III

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead a team of System Security Engineers and Certification and Accreditation Analysts responsible for ensuring the customers national and international security interests are protected as support equipment are designed and tested
• Perform oversight of the development, implementation and evaluation of information system security program policy; special emphasis placed upon integration of existing SAP network infrastructures
• Provide expert support, research and analysis of exceptionally complex problems, and processes relating to them
• Provide expert level consultation and technical services on all aspects of Information Security
• Serve as technical expert to the Cybersecurity Assessment Program providing technical direction, interpretation and alternatives to complex problems
• Build IA into systems deployed to operational environments
• Afford assistance to architects and systems developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application of DoD and other agencies security policy and enterprise solutions
• Enforce the design and implementation of trusted relations among external systems and architectures
• Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle
• Contribute to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations
• Think independently and demonstrate exceptional written and oral communications skills
• Apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts
• Contribute to the development of new principles, concepts, and methodologies
• Work on unusually complex technical problems and provide highly innovative and ingenious solutions
• Support customer and SAP community IA working groups, participate in SSE IPT reviews
• Represent the customer in various ISSE related working groups, advisory groups, and advisory council meetings
• Strong background in Patch/Configuration management, DevOps, and tier 3 support
• Integrate/Develop new techniques to improve Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability for networks/systems operating at various classification levels
• Perform security assessments of servers/network devices/security appliances
• Develop improvements to security assessments with regard to accuracy and efficiency
• Integrate ancillary monitoring tools/capabilities with the enterprise security information and event management (SIEM) and create/tailor complex event alarms/rules and summary reports
• Write and execute cybersecurity test procedures for validation of control compliance
• Monitor/analyze output of cybersecurity related tools for reportable security incidents and residual risk
• Analyze technical risk of emerging cybersecurity tools and processes
• Work as part of a security incident response team as needed
• Build operational Operations and Maintenance (O&M) checklists to maintain the service (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly O&M checklists); build Tactics, Techniques and Processes (TTPs) and Standard Operating Processes (SOPs) associated with service checklists

Requirements

• Fifteen (15)+ years related experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related area or equivalent experience (Four (4) years)
• Prior performance in roles such as ISSO, ISSM, SCA, or SAP IT Technical Director; SAP experience
• Training: DoD 8570.01-M IAAE Level II (in lieu of IAAE Level I)
• Security Requirements: Current Top Secret Clearance with SCI Eligibility
• Eligibility for access to Special Access Programs
• Willingness to submit to a Counterintelligence Polygraph

Skills

• Advanced technical competency in one or more of the following supported platforms: Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, MS Hyper-V/VMWare/ESx/Xen Hypervisors, Enterprise networking/firewalls/intrusion detection/prevention systems, forensic analysis/vulnerability assessment, Group Policy management and configuration, Scripting, BMC Footprints, WSUS, Lumension, Bitlocker, SQL Server 2012, TomCat, IIS, Windows Server 2012r2/2016, Win 10, Red Hat 6.5, Microsoft Office Toolkits, SEIMs, Logrhythm, ACAS/Nessus/SCAP, mandatory/role-based access control concepts (e.g. SE Linux extensions to RHEL, PitBull, AppArmor, and Sentris), video teleconferencing/VOIP, Oracle/MS SQL database security, and Apache/IIS Web server security
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Possess a high degree of originality, creativity, initiative requiring minimal supervision
• Must be familiar with security policy/manuals and the appropriate DCIDs/JAFANs and other guiding policy documents
• Requires travel within the organizational geographic Area of Responsibility (AOR) (note - could be extensive, and will include both air and ground transportation)