Cyber Defense Information Assurance/Security Engineer (Cyber Defense Posture Evaluator)

Company: Perspecta
Location: Columbia
Posted on: September 15, 2020

Job Description:

Business Group Highlights Defense The Defense group supports the Department of Defense (DoD) mission to keep our homeland and its citizens safe. We provide solutions to improve the Nationaposs defense by providing software, systems engineering, IT, training and logistics and fleet management solutions. Responsibilities This Cyber Defense Information AssuranceSecurity Engineer (Cyber Defense Posture Evaluator) is responsible for using and applying technical standards, principles and theories to provide solutions to technical problems regarding network cyber defense and operates security devices remotely and locally. Secures system configurations and install security tools, scan systems in order to determine compliancy. Utilizes firewall toolsets to accurately analyze and report on the overall health of local and deployed firewalls. Provides assistance in computer incident investigations. Performs vulnerability assessments including development of risk mitigation strategies. Coordinates and tracks Information Assurance Vulnerabilities Alerts (IAVA). Responsible for supporting evaluations of different network and enclave configurations with respect to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 Security Controls and formulate and execute effective auditing and incident response programs. Peforms activities to support the Risk Management Framework (RMF) Cretification and Accreditation (CA) process, maintenance, POAM development and maintenance, authoring RMF Policy, Procedures, and similar activities. Provides general IT management support, general networking, Local Area Network (LAN)Wide Area Network (WAN) enterprise, CONUS and OCONUS deploymentTDY travel, functional training, technical and general OM, documentation and reports, and meetingsbriefings to support Air Force Central Command (AFCENT) Network Operations and Security Center (NOSC) operations. Qualifications Associates in related field and 3 or more years' relevant experience OR 5 or more years' of relevant experience. Security or CCNA-Sec MCP (Server), MCSD (App Builder), and ITIL Foundation TS with SCI Eligibility About Perspecta What matters to our nation, is what matters to us. At Perspecta, everything we do, from conducting innovative research to cultivating strong relationships, supports one imperative ensuring that your work succeeds. Our company was formed to bring a broad array of capabilities to all parts of the public sector-from investigative services and IT strategy to systems work and next-generation engineering. Our promise is simple never stop solving our nation's most complex challenges. And with a workforce of approximately 14,000, more than 48 percent of which is cleared, we have been trusted to do just that, as a partner of choice across the entire sector. Perspecta is an AAEEO httpsperspecta.comeeo-aa Employer - MinoritiesWomenVeteransDisabled and other protected categories. As a government contractor, Perspecta abides by the following provision Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of the other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).

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