Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government clients to enhance security and improve lives across America. They are seeking an Information Security Analyst Lead responsible for ensuring security compliance and monitoring cybersecurity posture, while facilitating communication among various stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Product Owners, ISSOs, engineering and infrastructure staff to provide guidance on implementation if security policies, standards, and procedures
- Analyze new or updated security requirements, collaborate with stakeholders, and develop responses that are clear and accurate
- Support the review and update of ATO artifacts such as System Security Plans, Information System Contingency Plans, Configuration and Change Management Plans, Incident Response Plans, Privacy Impact Analysis, and more
- Interpret security risk assessment, review security scan results, assess security vulnerabilities and support the development and remediation of vulnerability and compliance issues via Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms)
- Support the development of implementation and design documentation relating to security feature implementation
- Work with engineering and infrastructure personnel to document remediation for vulnerabilities and non-compliance issues
- Analyze and interpret agency security requirements and provide governance communication to non-security personnel
- Collaborate with product teams, ISSOs and other stakeholders in support of continuous monitoring and ATO efforts
- Conducts vulnerability assessments and monitors systems, networks, databases and Web-based assets for potential system breaches. Recommends and takes the lead on implementing changes to enhance security systems, prevent unauthorized access, and help mitigate security vulnerabilities
- Responds to alerts from information security tools. Reports, investigates, and resolves higher level security incidents
- Responds to security tool outages, degradations in service, tune security rules and alerts, and setup/maintain security tool dashboards and reporting
- Research security trends, new methods, and techniques used in unauthorized access of data to preemptively eliminate the possibility of system breach. Ensures compliance with regulations and privacy laws. Conducts research to identify new attack vectors
- Educates and communicates security requirements and procedures to all users and new employees
- Recommend process improvements to the information system for risk mitigation
- Applies iterative security automation to all program aspects increasing overall security posture iteratively and never accepts the status quo
- Provide audit log review in Splunk, present any findings to ISSO, and plan for any investigation or remediation activities
- Periodic user and privileged access reviews
Skills
- Minimum of eight years of experience in cybersecurity architecture, cloud security, DevSecOps, security engineering, or a related technical field
- Must hold a current Security+ certification
- Experience designing security 'baked-in' to architectures including Cloud and IaC, applications, web applications, data processing, data-centric applications, AI/ML, and CI/CD pipelines
- A proven track record
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies
- Working knowledge of AWS or Azure security tools, their functionality, and their purpose
- Ability to assist customers with defining appropriate management processes (responsible for documenting application criticality, privacy, and security impact analysis)
- Knowledge of hardening standards (DISA STIG, CIS)
- Experience with the NIST Risk Management Framework, NIST 800-53 rev5, and NIST 800-171
- Active secret clearance
- Federal Government contracting work experience
- Experience as an ISSO for the DoD
- Highly preferred industry certifications such as CISSP, CEH, GIAC, etc
- Experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems (e.g., Splunk)
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Life and disability insurance
- Additional wellness and employee support programs
- Reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process
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