Security Control Assessor - TS/SCI with Polygraph required

About the role

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Security Control Assessor supporting customer activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Security Control Assessor, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Security Control Assessor joining our highly skilled team to be a premier provider of cyber security services to the customer.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates the security controls within network systems to identify vulnerabilities and recommend actions to correct problems working either alone or as part of a team.
• Ensures integrity of IT systems by identifying and mitigating potential avenues of exploitation including system level attacks and user level attacks.
• Applies experience with RMF, CNSSI 1253, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, and NISPOM.
• Applies experience with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Compliance Checker (SCC).
• Demonstrated experience conducting hands on security testing, analyzing results, documenting risks, and recommending countermeasures.
• Demonstrated experience developing risk assessment reports based on review of security plans and interviews with developer/customer.
• Assesses systems against information assurance policies, regulations and instructions.
• Develops and documents security evaluation test plans and procedures.
• Demonstrated experience testing security architectures of cloud-based systems and applications, identifying vulnerabilities and providing security remediation.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science or Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline)

Required Experience: 10+ yrs (Must have 4+ yrs of hands-on SCA experience)

Clearance: TS/SCI with active polygraph

• Required Technical Skills: Compliance and vulnerability scanning tools (XACTA, RedSeal, Tenable, Nessus, Splunk, and/or other vulnerability scanners)
• Administer Microsoft Azure environments by assessing existing cloud-based systems for alignment with Azure best practices, and recommending or implementing configuration, security, and performance optimizations
• Strong understanding of the Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process including Cloud Best Practices
• Excellent oral and technical writing skills

Qualifications

Strongly Desired Certifications: CASP, CISA, CISSP, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Microsoft AZ 900, Microsoft AZ-500

Skills

None

Benefits

401K with company match

Comprehensive health and wellness packages

Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $155,616 - $210,539. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA McLean

Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards

At GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.

To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

About Us

Our work depends on a Security Control Assessor joining our highly skilled team to be a premier provider of cyber security services to the customer. We provide consummate cyber security risk management “as a service” platform across multiple fabrics and centers. We have responsibility to ensure operational IT capabilities provide the client with necessary timeliness, accuracy and security of information demanded from all our highly professional roles.

Equal Opportunity Employer

GDIT is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.