Cyber Systems Engineer - Continuous Monitoring

Location

Chantilly, Loudoun County, VA | United States

Job description

Continuous Monitoring Cyber Systems Engineer

Chantilly, VA

Position Description:

The ConMon Cyber Engineer provides support to the customer in the area of Cyber Security. Daily tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Support the Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Program Lead in maturing the customer’s Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) program.
• Generate and lead ConMon process improvement activities
• Coordinate with the Cyber Data Science team to identify sources of information to better evaluate customers ConMon activities.
• Coordinate with Cyber Data Science team to create new views of customer’s ConMon posture
• Collect the necessary data, develop, and deliver reports to show customer’s progress of the enterprise wide ConMon program.
• Develop and deliver asset ConMon compliance views for categories such as mission, cross domain, and location, as required by the customer.
• Proactively identify and provide metrics and reporting data appropriate for stakeholders in each of the Tiers identified in the NIST SP 800-137
• Validates, for efficacy, ConMon control Bodies-of-Evidence (BOEs) entered in the ConMon tool
• Guides, mentors and instructs program Information System Security Officers (ISSOs) on methods to improve ConMon BOE entry language
• Assist Security Control Accessors (SCAs), FISMA and Inspector General (IG) Teams on examining ConMon BOEs for official reporting
• Proactively identify and provide metrics and reporting data appropriate for AO/DAOs to make sound risk decisions for continued authorization of systems
• Initiate and participate in studies to improve ConMon reporting metrics
• Recommend improvements on Enterprise Security Services (ESS) tool implementations

Qualifications:

Required:

• Current U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Favorably adjudicated Polygraph
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) or an advanced IA certification
• DoD 8570 certification in IAT or IAM
• Knowledge of and experience with RMF step 6 (Continuous Monitoring) policies
• Experience implementing ICD 503 RMF Process and NIST 800-53, 800-137, 800-37 and 800-53a technical controls, as well as developing and maintaining associated certification and accreditation documentation
• Excellent communications skills – both verbal and non-verbal
• Experience in one or more roles as SysAdmin, ISSM, ISSO, ISSE, DAO-R, SCA or ISO
• Office Automation Skills – MS Office, MS Project, Visio
• Self-starter requiring limited direction and supervision

Desired:

• Experience briefing senior customer personnel
• Ability to organize and prioritize numerous customer requests in a fast pace deadline driven environment
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Familiarity with customer's IA processes
• Experience with ServiceNow and Splunk

Experience supporting IC or DoD in the Cyber Security Domain

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