Westport, Massachusetts
16 days ago
TS/SCI ISSE III
The Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) is primarily responsible for conducting information system security engineering activities with a focus on lifecycle of current systems and future requirement

scoping. The position will collect and process the captured information security requirements and ensures that the requirements are effectively integrated into information systems through purposeful security

architecting, design, development, and configuration. The position is an integral part of the development team designing and developing organizational information systems or upgrading legacy systems. The ISSE

employs best practices when implementing security requirements within an information system including software engineering methodologies, system/security engineering principles, secure design, secure

architecture, and secure coding techniques. This position's main function is working within Special Access Programs (SAPs) supporting Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, such as HQ Air Force, Office of the

Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Military Compartments efforts. The position will provide "day-to-day" support for Collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Program (SAP)

activities.

Performance shall include:

Perform oversight of the development, implementation and evaluation of information system security program policy; special emphasis placed upon integration of existing SAP network infrastructures

Perform analysis of network security, based upon the Risk Management Framework (RMF) with emphasize on Joint Special Access Program Implementation Guide (JSIG) authorization process

Provides expert support, research and analysis of exceptionally complex problems, and processes relating to them

Provides expert level consultation and technical services on all aspects of Information Security Serves as technical expert to the Cybersecurity Assessment Program providing technical direction,

interpretation and alternatives to complex problems

Builds IA into systems deployed to operational environments

Assists architects and systems developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application of DoD and other agencies security

policy and enterprise solutions

Enforce the design and implementation of trusted relations among external systems and architectures.

Assesses and mitigates system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle Contributes to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and

awareness activities for system and networking operations

Thinks independently and demonstrates exceptional written and oral communications skills. Applies advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts

Contributes to the development of new principles, concepts, and methodologies

Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides highly innovative and ingenious solutions

Lead a team of System Security Engineers and Certification and Accreditation Analysts responsible for ensuring the customers national and international security interests are protected as support

equipment are designed and tested

Recommends cybersecurity software tools and assists in the development of software tool requirements and selection criteria to include the development of product specific STIGs from

applicable DISA SRGs

Review ISSE related designs and provides security compliance recommendations

Leads technical teams in implementation of predetermined long-range goals and objectives

Supports customer and SAP community IA working groups, participate in SSE IPT reviews

Provides expert level consultation and technical services on all aspects of Information Security

Review ISSE related designs and provides security compliance recommendations

Develop and provide IA risk management recommendations to the customer

Provide ISSE support for Mission and Training systems design and development

Assist with development and maintenance of the Program Protection Plan

Assist with site activation activities and design reviews

Represent the customer in various ISSE related working groups, advisory groups, and advisory council meetings

Chair and or Co-Chair customer and SAP community IA working groups, participate in ISSE IPT reviews

Represent the customer in various SSE related working groups, advisory groups, and advisory council meetings

Strong background in Patch/Configuration management, DevOps, and tier 3 support

Assist team to design, integrate, and implement JSIG/RMF Continuous Monitoring tools and processes

Integrate COTS & GOTS products to collect, display and remediate a variety of automated system security and system operations/performance functions and metrics

Perform security assessments of servers/network devices/security appliances

Develop improvements to security assessments with regard to accuracy and efficiency

Integrate ancillary monitoring tools/capabilities with the enterprise security information and event management (SIEM) and create/tailor complex event alarms/rules and summary reports

Write and execute cybersecurity test procedures for validation of control compliance

Monitor/analyze output of cybersecurity related tools for reportable security incidents and residual risk

Analyze technical risk of emerging cybersecurity tools and processes

Work as part of a security incident response team as needed

Build operational Operations and Maintenance (O&M) checklists to maintain the service (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly O&M checklists); build Tactics, Techniques and Processes (TTPs) and

Standard Operating Processes (SOPs) associated with service checklists

Integrate/Develop new techniques to improve Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability for networks/systems operating at various classification levels

Advanced technical competency in one or more of the following supported platforms: Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, MS Hyper-

V/VMWare/ESx/Xen Hypervisors, Enterprise networking/firewalls/intrusion detection/prevention systems, forensic analysis/vulnerability assessment, Group Policy management and configuration,

Scripting, BMC Footprints, WSUS, , Lumension, Bitlocker, SQL Server 2012, TomCat, IIS, Windows Server 2012r2/2016, Win 10, Red Hat 6.5, Microsoft Office

Toolkits, SEIMs, Logrhythm, ACAS/Nessus/SCAP, mandatory/role-based access control concepts (e.g. SE Linux extensions to RHEL, PitBull, AppArmor, and Sentris), video teleconferencing/VOIP,

Oracle/MS SQL database security, and Apache/IIS Web server security

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