Cybersecurity Systems Assurance Specialist

2 weeks ago

Meade, United States Farfield Systems, Inc Full time
About Farfield Systems, Inc

At Farfield, we are dedicated to providing reliable expertise to our government partners. As we expand, our emphasis is on enhancing opportunities for your professional development while maintaining the high standards our clients have come to expect. We consistently assess our environment to create a workplace where your career is filled with growth prospects and you can showcase your dedication to our clients. We prioritize building a team where every employee is a valued contributor.

Farfield supports various agencies across the United States Government in numerous locations, offering diverse pathways for your career journey without the need to change employers frequently.

"Employee driven...customer focused." We design, manage, and secure networks and infrastructure.

*** Requires a Top Secret/SCI clearance with a polygraph and U.S. Citizenship***

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyze Nessus/ACAS scan results and provide guidance as necessary

• Identify potential, successful, and unsuccessful scan outcomes for effective reporting of compromises through thorough reviews and analyses of relevant event details and summaries

• Assess systems' baseline security status (STE, Health & Status) validated through Xacta and LatteArt record systems

• Review and address liens (POAMS) - continuous assessment

• Collaborate in developing Splunk use case dashboard reporting for security baseline, including weekly system health status updates

• Ensure 100% compliance validation for system scans

• Maintain 98% asset accountability for in-scope systems

• Communicate alerts to agencies regarding intrusions and compromises affecting their network infrastructure, applications, and operating systems

• Assist in implementing countermeasures or mitigating controls

• Conduct regular audits to ensure secure system operations and adherence to information systems security policies and procedures as outlined in security plans

• Develop, test, and manage firewalls, intrusion detection systems, enterprise anti-virus systems, and software deployment tools. Protect the network against unauthorized access, modification, destruction, or disclosure. Respond to inquiries and requests for computer security information and reports

• Investigate computer security violations and incidents, reporting as necessary to management

• Research, evaluate, test, recommend, communicate, and implement new security software or devices

• Implement, enforce, communicate, and develop security policies or plans for data, software applications, hardware, and telecommunications. Create materials for computer security education and awareness programs

• Provide recommendations to clients on information assurance engineering standards, implementation dependencies, and evolving information assurance technologies

• Conduct periodic and on-demand system audits and vulnerability assessments, including user accounts, application access, file system, and external web integrity scans to ensure compliance

• Inform management about the negative impacts on business caused by theft, destruction, alteration, or denial of access to information

• Offer advanced guidance and leadership to less-experienced team members

• May serve as a team or task leader (not a people manager)

• Provide information assurance project management, technical security staff oversight, and development of mission-critical technical documentation

• Ensure compliance with regulations and privacy laws

Basic Qualifications:
  • Must meet contract level requirements for the appropriate position.
  • Additionally, the position requires five (5) years of experience as an ISSO on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
  • Experience must include at least one (1) of the following areas: knowledge of current security tools and hardware/software security implementation; communication protocols; encryption techniques/tools.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a 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 substitute for a Bachelor's degree.
Experience should include:
  • On-call required for 24x7 support - Essential personnel
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Leadership skills to guide and mentor less experienced personnel
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to lead and work as part of a team
Farfield Systems is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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