RMF Cybersecurity Analyst - TS/SCI with CI Poly
The RMF Cybersecurity Analyst will serve as an Information System Security Officer (ISSO) for Intelligence Community systems, managing the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process to secure Authority to Operate (ATO) certifications. The role involves authoring security documentation, conducting self-assessments, and ensuring compliance with NIST 800-53 standards.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- High School and 10+ years of experience or equivalent degree/experience combination
- Minimum of 3-years IC (SCI) RMF Assessment and Authorization (A&A) experience
- Ability to describe differences between collateral and SCI authorization requirements
- Ability to speak to the intent of all NIST 800-53 security controls
- Minimum 1-year hands on experience with the Xacta application
- Excellent oral and technical writing skills
- Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with ability to obtain a counter-intelligence polygraph
Full description
Our work depends on a Risk Management Framework Cybersecurity Analyst joining our team to support Government activities. As a RMF Cybersecurity Analyst supporting the Federal Government and the Intelligence Community (IC), you will be entrusted with ensuring our IT engineering solutions meet the highest security standards, that they adhere to all applicable standards, guidelines, and mandates; and that all appropriate documentation necessary to make up a Body of Evidence (BoE) is provided to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and Authorizing Official (AO) to successfully justify the issuing an Authority to Operate (ATO).
- Acting as an appointed Information System Security Officer (ISSO) for IC cyber systems being developed by the engineering team.
- Reporting, documenting, and briefing the status of systems under development while assuring their successful and timely progression through the DIA Risk Management Framework (RMF) to the satisfaction of the appointed Information System Security Manager (ISSM), and/or senior govt leadership.
- Providing clear justification describing the satisfaction of all applicable security control implementation as specified by the IC, AO, or NIST-800-53, rev 4 rev 5.
- Authoring System Security Plans (SSP).
- Authoring System Security Test Plans (SSTP).
- Conducting self-assessments of all systems under development
- Analyzing security controls and the impact changes would introduce to the environment.
- Preparing for and assisting with formal risk assessments conducted by the AO’s designated Security Control Assessors (SCA) while acting as a member of the security assessment test team.
- Ensuring the remediation of any findings assigned to engineering as documented in the Security Assessment Report (SAR) and its Plan of Actions and Milestones (PO&AM).
- Documenting and defending reasoning when waivers are sought, or non-standard remediation solutions are requested for specific security controls.
- Assisting with the transition of systems granted an ATO to the Operations branch and the assignment of an operations ISSO.
- Researching remediation options for vulnerabilities identified for systems under development or already in production under an ATO.
Requirements
- High School and 10+ years of experience / Associate's Degree and 8+ years of experience/ Bachelors Degree and 6+ years of experience / Master's degree and 4+ years of experience / PHD and 2+ years of experience.
- Minimum of 3-years IC (SCI) RMF Assessment and Authorization (A&A) experience and the ability to describe the differences between collateral and SCI authorization requirements as they apply to DoD and IC instructions and guidelines.
- Ability to speak to the intent of all NIST 800-53 security controls.
- Minimum 1-year hands on experience with the Xacta application.