Information System Security Eng (ISSE) III
27 days ago
Washington
Job Description Global Resource Solutions, Inc. (GRS) is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, detail orientated, and talented individual for the position of Information System Security Engineer III. Job Description: Summary: The Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) III, is primarily responsible for conducting information system security engineering activities with a focus on lifecycle of current systems and future requirement scoping. The position will collect and process the captured information security requirements and ensures that the requirements are effectively integrated into information systems through purposeful security architecting, design, development, and configuration. The position is an integral part of the development team designing and developing organizational information systems or upgrading legacy systems. The ISSE employs best practices when implementing security requirements within an information system including software engineering methodologies, system/security engineering principles, secure design, secure architecture, and secure coding techniques. This position’s main function is working within Special Access Programs (SAPs) supporting Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, such as HQ Air Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Military Compartments efforts. The position will provide “day-to-day” support for Collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Program (SAP) activities.. 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, • Builds IA into systems deployed to operational environments, • Assists 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., • Assesses and mitigates system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle, • Thinks independently and demonstrates exceptional written and oral communications skills., • Applies advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts, • Contributes to the development of new principles, concepts, and methodologies, • Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides highly innovative and ingenious solutions, • 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, • Review ISSE related designs and provides security compliance recommendations, • Leads technical teams in implementation of predetermined long-range goals and objectives, • Supports customer and SAP community IA working groups, participate in SSE IPT reviews, • Provides expert level consultation and technical services on all aspects of Information Security, • Review ISSE related designs and provides security compliance recommendations, • Develop and provide IA risk management recommendations to the customer, • Provide ISSE support for Mission and Training systems design and development, • Assist with development and maintenance of the Program Protection Plan, • Assist with site activation activities and design reviews, • Represent the customer in various ISSE related working groups, advisory groups, and advisory council meetings, • Chair and or Co-Chair customer and SAP community IA working groups, participate in ISSE IPT reviews, • Represent the customer in various SSE related working groups, advisory groups, and advisory council meetings, • Integrate COTS & GOTS products to collect, display and remediate a variety of automated system security and system operations/performance functions and metrics, • 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, • Fifteen (15)+ years related experience, • Master's or 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;, • Current Top Secret Clearance with SCI Eligibility, • Eligibility for access to Special Access Programs, • 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, • Must have expert knowledge of DoD, National and applicable service and agency security policy, manuals and standards. Must have the ability to work in a dynamic environment and effectively interact with numerous DOD, military/civilian personnel and industry partners, • Ability to work in a dynamic environment and effectively interact with numerous DOD, military/civilian personnel and industry partners, • 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 Communication: Excellent customer service via phone and face to face conversation, excellent written and oral command of English. GRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. GRS will continue to abide by obligations under VEVRRA and Section 503 physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics that are protected by law.