Senior Information Systems Security Engineer ISSE
Company: Leidos
Location: Ellicott City
Posted on: May 8, 2024
Job Description:
Description Looking for a rewarding career challenge?Unleash
your potential at Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through
the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to
our customer's success. We empower our teams, contribute to our
communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on
a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people,
and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we
do business. With Leidos, you will enjoy competitive benefits such
as four or more weeks of Paid Time Off, Flexible Schedules,
Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Unlimited Education and Training
Support, Parental Paid Leave, and more! If this sounds like an
environment where you can thrive, keep reading!Are you ready to
join an incredible technical team working on cutting-edge
technologies? Leidos has landed a massive, multi-year contract that
involves developing, integrating, deploying, and sustaining large
collection systems. This prime contract is critical to the
government and allows team members to work independently and
explore new and emerging technologies. If you're passionate about
solving tough problems with true mission relevance, this is the
opportunity you've been waiting for! Are you ready to make an
impact? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful
career?The Leidos National Security Sector has a career opportunity
on our newly awarded Leidos-led Prime Program for a Senior
Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) at our customer site
in Fort Meade, MD. Your Main Objective
- Provide aid to the program, organization, system, or enclave's
information assurance program.
- Lend assistance for proposing, coordinating, implementing, and
enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and
methodologies.
- Maintain operational security posture for an information system
or program to ensure information systems security policies,
standards, and procedures are established and followed.
- Assist with the management of security aspects of the
information system and performs day-to-day security operations of
the system.
- Evaluate security solutions to ensure they meet security
requirements for processing classified information.
- Perform vulnerability/risk assessment analysis to support
certification and accreditation.
- Provide configuration management (CM) for information system
security software, hardware, and firmware.
- Manage changes to system and assesses the security impact of
those changes.
- Prepare and review documentation to include System Security
Plans (SSPs), Risk Assessment Reports, Certification and
Accreditation (C&A) packages, and System Requirements
Traceability Matrices (SRTMs).
- Assist security authorization activities in compliance with
Information System Certification and Accreditation Process (NISCAP)
and DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF).
- Perform and/or review technical security assessments of
computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-
compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards
and regulations and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Validate and verify system security requirements definitions
and analysis and establishes system security designs.
- Design, develop, implement and/or integrate IA and security
systems and system components including those for networking,
computing, and enclave environments to include those with multiple
enclaves and with differing data protection/classification
requirements.
- Build IA into systems deployed to operational
environments.
- Assist architects and systems developers in the identification
and implementation of appropriate information security
functionality to ensure uniform application of Agency security
policy and enterprise solutions.
- Enforce the design and implementation of trusted relations
among external systems and architectures.
- Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout
the program life cycle.
- Contribute to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis,
risk management, certification and awareness activities for system
and networking operations.
- Apply system security engineering expertise in one or more of
the following: system security design process; engineering life
cycle; information domain; cross domain solutions; commercial
off-the-shelf and government off- the-shelf cryptography;
identification; authentication; and authorization; system
integration; risk management; intrusion detection; contingency
planning; incident handling; configuration control; change
management; auditing; certification and accreditation process;
principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation,
availability, and access control); and security testing.
- Support security authorization activities in compliance with
customer Information System Certification and Accreditation Process
(NISCAP) and DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF), the NIST Risk
Management Framework (RMF) process, and prescribed customer
business processes for security engineering.What Sets You Apart
(required):
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information
Assurance, Information Security, or related discipline and
preferably 12 or more years of related experience, in lieu of
Bachelor's Degree or a Technical Bachelor's Degree an additional 4
Years of experience will be considered.
- Candidates with customer specific experience and less than 12
years total experience will be considered on a case by case
- Minimum of 7 years of experience as an ISSO or USSE supporting
IC or DoD programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and
complexity.
- DoD 8570 compliance with IAM Level II or IAT Level III (i.e.,
CASP, CISSP, or Associate)KQWconmdOriginal Posting
Date:2024-04-03While subject to change based on business needs,
Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain
open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no
earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed
above.Pay Range:Pay Range $122,200.00 - $220,900.00The Leidos pay
range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a
guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered
in extending an offer include (but are not limited to)
responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge,
skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with
market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other
law.
Keywords: Leidos, Reading , Senior Information Systems Security Engineer ISSE, IT / Software / Systems , Ellicott City, Pennsylvania
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