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Senior Cybersecurity
Scottsdale, AZ
Contract Position
$67.54-$85.05/Hour
We have a 28 year history of continued service with the Aerospace and Defense Industry highlighted through the care for each of our employees and our clients missions. This position is supporting the next generation in developing mission critical systems. Their mission is creating the most effective and state of the art technologies for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance supporting the Army, Navy, Air Force, Special Forces, and other Federal Government agencies working with our military. If you are interested in meaningful work on the newest innovations in defense along with an employee first partnerships we invite you to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- interact with clients to recommend andprovideinformation assurance solutions including,supporting certification and accreditation activities, developing verification procedures used in risk assessments and security testsandevaluations, and developing various security documentation in compliance with Information Assurance policy.
- Ensure that security requirements: NIST 800 SP-37, NIST 800-53, ICD 503, and CNSSI 1253 for the systems will be met
- Interpret NIST 800-53/CNSS 1253 to implement information assurance practices within a hosted application environment
- Proactively collaborate with various stake holders on these changes and their impact
- Engage with the various projects to ensure the NIST 800-53 is part of the engineer design for each application
- Collaborate with team members on implementing advanced security solutions to meet the customer’s mission
- Follow industry and DHS trends and developments to ensure engineering project’s security services are consistent with, and/or superiorto,industry best practices
- Document certification and accreditation activities using the prescribed templates by collaborating with engineering projects
- Conduct and mitigate vulnerability and compliance assessments on various operating systems, Internet browsers, web servers,databases,network, and peripherals devices
- Team with security members to delivery a robust and repeatable security approach
- Proactively check software dependencies for changes in cyber approval status
- Decompose cyber requirements to applicable implementation requirements or recommendations to the development staff
- Conduct security assessments using DoD STIGs/SRGs and ensure compliance
- Maintain security controls and baselines using Xacta, SNOW or eMASS tool
- Perform security requirements analysis, security requirements definition, system security design, security architecture generation,securitytrade studies, and security verification and validation with little or no supervision
- Perform security planning, cost and risk analyses for the program security activities
- Perform customer security requirements analysis, develops system security requirements and defines allocations to lowerlevels(subsystem, elements and components)
- Contribute to detailed security analyses at the system of system (SOS) level
- Synthesize security solutions within the context of the system to meet customer expectations while staying within schedule andcostconstraints
- Research and analyze data, such as vendor products, COTS components, GFE/CFE, specifications, and manuals to determine securityofdesign
- Effectively chooses the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle tosupportthe generation of the security engineering products
- Execute the execution of the development of program required security documentation, including items such as securityplans,contingency plans, and security tests plans and procedures in compliance with the IA policy
- Support the Assessment and Authorization (A&A) (or Certification and Accreditation (C&A)) activities and the generation ofthedocumentation for the program
- Execute the security testing and evaluation to ensure the correct implementation of security requirements
- Execute security scanning and the analysis of the scan results
- Assess and mitigate system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle
- Recognize and incorporate various security designs and lessons learned
- Regular contact with senior levels of security work groups
- Work under limited direction
- Contact with project leaders and other professionals within the Engineering department and with project teams
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or a related Science or Mathematics field combined with 8 + years of relevant work experience; or Master’s Degree combined with 6 + years of job- related experience.
- Top Secret Clearance, and CI Polygraph is preferred.
- Experience with performing IAVA remediation and maintaining compliance on various Windows and Linux-based systems
- Strong use and understanding of systems engineering concepts, principles, and theories
- Strong understanding of cyber security specifications such as Risk Management Framework(RMF), STIGs, SRGs and othergovernmentsecurity specifications and guidelines
- Strong knowledge of cyber security technology and trends
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Effective in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions as they affect the cyber design and implementation
- Strong ability in reporting relevant cyber systems engineering design
- Recognizes and incorporates various security designs and lessons learned
- Creative thinker, good multi-tasker
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What to Expect
What to Expect:
- Applicants selected for employment will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and background investigation which may include education, criminal and work history verifications.
- Accepted applicants will have the opportunity to be eligible for benefits, including medical and supplemental insurance and a 401K. Appreciation and gratitude for employees is a hallmark of organizations with low turnover.
Moseley Technical Services, Inc. is an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
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