We are a software engineering and consulting firm providing more than 45 years of service to state and federal customers. By combining unparalleled experience and capabilities, our company provides big data, cloud development, and enterprise management solutions. We are focused on product usability and end user presentation to help our customers make the best decisions possible. Given our length of service in the industry, we know the importance of a competitive salary and benefits package. That's why our total compensation package can be tailored to meet employees personal needs. 

A CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE
Clearance required: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Desired:
Mid or Senior Level

Salary: Mid Level - 133K-142K
             Senior Level - 156K-165K

(The compensation of this position starts at the lower amount of the stated salary range while higher amounts may be achieved by the candidate accepting less PTO, waiving Healthcare, or both.)

Primary Responsibilities
This position requires a solid understanding of security practices and policies as well as hands‐on vulnerability testing experience. The selected candidate will have numerous responsibilities from day to day drawn from a wide array of activities. The strongest candidates will have experience working in these areas:

•  Validating and verifying system security requirements and establishing system security designs for large‐scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
•  Identifying and implementing appropriate information security architectures and functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.
• Recommending and developing technical solutions, products, and standards based on current and desired system security architecture.
• Assessing and mitigating system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Leading and/or contributing to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for various system and networking operations.
•  Effectively collaborating with other internal technical experts on a day‐to‐day basis.
• Communicating with Program Managers and POCs from customer organizations when necessary, regarding Security issues of significant importance.
• Participating in Program Increment Planning and related agile team activities.
• Working closely with System Engineering, Test Engineering, and Integration teams to ensure that the hardware and software architecture and implementation meets security requirements.
• Analyzing and assessing system implementation against multiple security compliance policies and recommending and implementing enhancements.
•  Evaluating security solutions to ensure they meet customer specified requirements for processing information.
•  Evaluating the impact of new development on the operational security posture of the system.
•  Evaluating, reviewing, and testing critical software.
• Proposing, assessing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
• Auditing and assessing system security configuration settings using common methodologies and tools.
•  Managing and enforcing security strategies and policies that effect various components of geographically distributed systems.
• Providing configuration management for security‐relevant information system software.
• Serving as a subject matter expert in security architecture to include providing advice to Program Managers, Customer technical experts, and internal program teams.
• Formulating security compliance requirements for new system features.
• Identifying and remediating security issues throughout the system.
• Supporting risk assessment, risk management, security control assessment, continuous monitoring, service design, and other IA program support functions.
• Working with development teams to enrich team‐wide understanding of different
• types of vulnerabilities, attack vectors and remediation approaches.
• Planning and conducting security verification testing of relevant type 1 devices.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have a solid understanding of security practices and policies and hands‐on vulnerability testing experience.
• Must have experience applying Risk Management Framework.
• Must have experience formulating and assessing IT security policy.
•  Must have demonstrated knowledge of and experience with common security tools, such as Nessus, NMAP and Wireshark hardware/software security implementation, communication protocol, encryption techniques/tools, and web services.
• Must have experience with secure configurations of commonly used desktop an server operating systems.
• Must be comfortable working on multiple systems and components simultaneously in various configurations.
• Must have strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.
• Must be able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade‐offs.
• Must be capable of performing high quality work both independently and with a team in a fast‐moving environment.​

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Five ﴾5﴿ years of experience with Defense in Depth Principals/technology ﴾including access control, authorization, identification and authentication, public key infrastructure, network and enterprise security architecture﴿ and applying risk assessment methodology to
• system development.
• DoD 8570 compliance with IASAE Level 2 or 3.
• Information Systems Security Engineering Professional ﴾ISSEP﴿ Certification.
• Computer Information Systems Security Professional ﴾CISSP﴿ Certification.
• Experience developing/implementing integrated security services management
• processes, such as assessing and auditing network penetration testing, anti‐virus planning
• assistance, risk analysis, and incident response.
• Experience providing information assurance support for application development
• that includes system security certifications and project evaluations for firewalls that encompass the development, design, and implementation.
• Experience with penetration testing tools.
• Experience with scripting languages.

Benefits:
•    Healthcare for Employee and Spouse and/or Children that is fully funded by us
•    10% Employer Contribution to 401K; Immediately Vested
•    7 Weeks Paid Time Off (PTO)
•    $2500 for Professional Development

We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

We provide wage ranges in accordance with State Pay Transparency Laws to support Title VII Equal Pay initiatives. These pay ranges are subject to change at any time, and pay will be commensurate with experience and/or other factors allowable by law.

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