Cyber Security Specialist with Security Clearance

Cybersecurity Specialist, Level III (Mission Critical Position)
Location: Pentagon, Washington DC
Role Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cybersecurity Specialist, Level III, to join our team. This position is crucial for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of identified mission-supporting information systems and applications. The ideal candidate will be responsible for establishing and satisfying complex system-wide information security requirements, planning, developing, implementing, and maintaining security measures, and ensuring compliance with all relevant DoD, DISA, U.S. Cyber Command, NIST, and Air Force guidance. Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of mission-supporting information systems, networks, data, and tools.

• Establish and satisfy complex information security requirements based on user, policy, regulatory, and resource demands.

• Develop, implement, and maintain information assurance programs, policies, procedures, and tools in unclassified and classified environments.

• Coordinate with the Authorizing Official to maintain system's Authority to Operate (ATO) in compliance with DoDI 8510.01.

• Ensure compliance with DoD, DISA, U.S. Cyber Command, NIST, and Air Force guidance, including a deep understanding of RMF, IAWF standards, STIG, and continuous monitoring standards from NIST SP-800 Series.

• Document and mitigate deviations from policy and develop Assessment & Authorization packages in accordance with RMF and Air Force and DoD policies.

• Perform vulnerability/risk analyses of systems and applications throughout the development life cycle.

• Analyze technical problems related to information assurance and provide engineering and technical support.

• Support data recovery operations. Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, physical science, engineering, or a mathematics-intensive discipline, plus at least five (5) years of information security or information assurance experience; OR Associate's degree in the fields mentioned above, plus ten (10) years of task-related experience; OR

• Fifteen (15) years of task-related experience.

• Must be certified in compliance with DoDD 8570.01-M as an IAM Level 2. Required Skills:

• Extensive knowledge of information security principles, DoD and Air Force policies, and the Risk Management Framework.

• Proficiency in security technologies and vulnerability assessment tools.

• Ability to coordinate and communicate effectively with Authorizing Officials and other stakeholders.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and documentation abilities.