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Information Assurance Specialist

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc
Portsmouth, VA, US
Full-time

Overview

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, innovative individual to fill the role of Information Assurance Specialist.

The candidate will provide accreditation and authorization support and guidance for a government client. The designated candidate for this position will join a collaborative team environment, providing technical analysis, auditing and guidance to support the successful delivery of the Accreditation deliverables and provide effective communication to all levels of staff for reporting system environment status.

The place of performance for this contract is onsite in Portsmouth, VA.

NOTE : REQUIRES US CITIZENSHIP

REQUIRES TOP SECRET CLEARANCE

Responsibilities

  • Work with system owners and system administrators to audit standard operating procedures, checklists and policies.
  • Review and analyze audit logs to ensure compliance with the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) and Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVAs) in support of achieving and maintaining authorization to operate.
  • Review and audit system configuration management; including system documentation, user manuals, and database versions.
  • Define policies to ensure and audit control of system access, user accounts, and other best practice security controls are in place to maintain existing Authority To Operate (ATO), physical security, and required protection of sensitive or classified information.
  • Ensure RMF compliance with SOPs, media sanitation procedures, contingency planning, incident response and insider threat policies and protocols.
  • Audit and manage-to-completion all outstanding open compliance items to completion and / or risk acceptance.
  • Review and ensure compliance with information security boundaries through interconnection security agreements and service level agreements.
  • Understand and monitor agreements with FedRamp cloud and services providers and associated controls.

Qualifications

  • Experience with hardening and patching.
  • Experience with managing system configurations.
  • Experience working with NIST Risk Management Framework.
  • Ability to understand, interpret and implement NIST policy.
  • Experience with ACAS, eMASS and CMRS desirable.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills are essential.
  • Ability to work independently in an autonomous environment.
  • Security+, CASP+, or CISSP certification (or comparable certification) required.
  • 30+ days ago
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