Location: Fort Meade, Maryland area
Security Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI with full scope polygaph.
Qualifications:
- Five (5) years experience as an ISSO on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Experience is to include at least one (1) of the following areas: knowledge of current security tools, hardware/software security implementation; communication protocols; and encryption techniques/tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. DoD 8570 compliance with IAT Level I or higher is required. Four (4) years of additional experience as an ISSO may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Experience
The Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) shall possess the following capabilities:
- Provide support to senior ISSOs for implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
- Assist with preparation and maintenance of documentation.
- Assist in the evaluation of security solutions to ensure they meet security requirements for processing classified information.
- Assist with the CM for information system security software, hardware, and firmware.
- Maintain records on workstations, servers, routers, firewalls, intelligent hubs, network switches, etc. to include system upgrades.
- Propose, coordinate, implement, and enforce information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
- Develop and maintain documentation for C&A in accordance with ODNI and DoD policies.
- Provide CM for security-relevant information system software, hardware, and firmware.
- Develop system security policy and ensures compliance.
- Evaluate security solutions to ensure they meet security requirements for processing classified information.
- Maintain operational security posture for an information system or program.
- Provide support to the Information System Security Manager (ISSM) for maintaining the appropriate operational IA posture for a system, program, or enclave.
- Develop and update the system security plan and other IA documentation.
- Assist with the management of security aspects of the information system and perform day-today security operations of the system.
- Administer the user identification and authentication mechanism of the Information System (IS).
Job Description:
Provides support for a program, organization, system, or enclave’s information assurance program. Provides support for proposing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies. Maintains operational security posture for an information system or program to ensure information systems security policies, standards, and procedures are established and followed. Assists with the management of security aspects of the information system and performs day-to-day security operations of the system. Evaluate security solutions to ensure they meet security requirements for processing classified information. Performs vulnerability/risk assessment analysis to support certification and accreditation.
Provides configuration management (CM) for information system security software, hardware, and firmware. Manages changes to system and assesses the security impact of those changes. Prepares and reviews documentation to include System Security Plans (SSPs), Risk Assessment Reports, Certification and Accreditation (C&A) packages, and System Requirements Traceability Matrices (SRTMs). Supports security authorization activities in compliance with National Institute of Standards and Technology Risk Management Framework (NIST RMF).
