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Cyber Security Officer

Salary: $60,557 – $141,555

Conduct all aspects of Information Assurance of Agency systems to include:

  • Provide Defense in Depth principles and technology in security engineering designs and implementation
  • Analyze existing and future systems, reviewing security architectures, and developing engineering solutions that integrate information security requirements to proactively manage information protection
  • Apply security risk assessment methodology to system development, including assessing and auditing network penetration testing, antivirus deployment, risk analysis
  • Conduct Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) activities, including forensic analysis
  • Engineer and deploy network defense countermeasures such as anti-virus, anti-spam, and intrusion detection and prevention system solutions
  • Analyze IA security events, including threat model development and resulting security risk analysis of systems
  • Review and assess information security events and logs via sophisticated security information/event manager
  • Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle
  • Validate system security requirements definition and analysis and review/approve System Security Plans for enterprise-wide architectures
  • Maintain Agency public key infrastructure system Implement security designs in hardware, software, data and procedures
  • Perform vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
  • Conduct certification and accreditation planning and testing

Minimum qualifications:

Candidates should have a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a curriculum in information assurance, computer science, mathematics, computer engineering or other technical field, or the equivalent verifiable work experience. Candidates should also possess:

  • One (1) year of associated in-depth IA class work or relevant IA work experience.
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills
  • Strong commitment to continuous learning
  • Ability to work in a team environment and the ability to listen well and work with others.

Desired qualifications:

  • A track record of progressively responsible information assurance experience in one or more of the following information security areas: ICD 503 (DCID 6/3) certification and accreditation, IA system evaluations, system security penetration testing, and IA security operations/network monitoring, Intrusion Detection Systems, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Security Information Management/Security Event Management, network mapping, vulnerability scanners, firewalls, routers and other security tools
  • Working knowledge of public key infrastructure and encryption systems
  • Experience working on an information security incident response team
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).