Kratos Defense and Security Solutions · 7 hours ago
Security Consultant (CMMC)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$114K/yr - $140K/yr
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Responsibilities
Expert-level knowledge of the CMMC framework, including practice requirements and the assessment methodology.
Regularly obtains continuing education necessary to maintain certifications and/or meet qualifications requirements.
Proactively maintains up-to-date knowledge of industry trends to enhance skills and abilities and contribute to the development of new or enhanced service offerings.
Actively demonstrates an ability to handle changing or ambiguous work situations by applying appropriate approaches, methodologies, and tools.
Bears responsibility for successful project completion.
Applies quality control practices to work product in advance of submission for quality assurance review.
Actively contributes to improving current service offerings.
Support a small team in the review and analysis of security documentation packages for completeness and compliance with CMMC requirements.
Provide critical input into the development of assessment artifacts including the Assessment Plan, Daily Checkpoint Logs, Risk Traceability Matrix, and Security Assessment Report and briefing.
Conduct client interviews and participate in working sessions to assess the technical and operational adequacy and sufficiency of security practice implementations.
Collaborate effectively within dynamic teams and across multiple customer organizations with diverse personalities and expertise to drive agreement on complex issues.
Effectively document successful and unsuccessful security practice implementations that appropriately reflect testing methodologies and evidence used to determine security practice implementation effectiveness.
Effectively cross-walk multiple sources of evidence (artifacts, demonstrations, interviews, and tests) to assess the maturity of practice implementation throughout an organization.
Conduct diagnostic/discovery sessions to gain an understanding of security architecture and practice implementations.
Leverage understanding of security architecture and practice implementations to identify gaps and develop supporting documentation.
Work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to assess and identify security compliance gaps and propose technical and operational remediation solutions.
Support the development security documentation that translates complex concepts, solutions, and organizational structure into compliant documentation that satisfies the CMMC compliance framework requirements. Security documentation includes but is not limited to: System Security Plan, Configuration Management Plan, Incident Response Plan, Contingency Plan, Risk Mitigation Plan, Vulnerability Management Plan, and general policy and procedures, as needed.
Provide consultative reviews of security documentation with accompanying remediation or enhancement recommendations.
Collaborative effectively within dynamic teams and across multiple customer organizations with diverse personalities and expertise to drive agreement on complex issues.
Ability and willingness to learn and support other security compliance frameworks.
Ability to successfully pass security framework certification requirements.
Broad based IT background with a technical understanding of networks, protocols, security configuration, cryptography and identity and access management.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including an ability to translate technical concepts and issues into non-technical or layman's terms.
Ability to successfully manage and lead multiple tasks.
Qualification
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Required
Expert-level knowledge of the CMMC framework, including practice requirements and the assessment methodology.
Regularly obtains continuing education necessary to maintain certifications and/or meet qualifications requirements.
Proactively maintains up-to-date knowledge of industry trends to enhance skills and abilities and contribute to the development of new or enhanced service offerings.
Actively demonstrates an ability to handle changing or ambiguous work situations by applying appropriate approaches, methodologies, and tools.
Bears responsibility for successful project completion.
Applies quality control practices to work product in advance of submission for quality assurance review.
Actively contributes to improving current service offerings.
Support a small team in the review and analysis of security documentation packages for completeness and compliance with CMMC requirements.
Provide critical input into the development of assessment artifacts including the Assessment Plan, Daily Checkpoint Logs, Risk Traceability Matrix, and Security Assessment Report and briefing.
Conduct client interviews and participate in working sessions to assess the technical and operational adequacy and sufficiency of security practice implementations.
Collaborate effectively within dynamic teams and across multiple customer organizations with diverse personalities and expertise to drive agreement on complex issues.
Effectively document successful and unsuccessful security practice implementations that appropriately reflect testing methodologies and evidence used to determine security practice implementation effectiveness.
Effectively cross-walk multiple sources of evidence (artifacts, demonstrations, interviews, and tests) to assess the maturity of practice implementation throughout an organization.
Conduct diagnostic/discovery sessions to gain an understanding of security architecture and practice implementations.
Leverage understanding of security architecture and practice implementations to identify gaps and develop supporting documentation.
Work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to assess and identify security compliance gaps and propose technical and operational remediation solutions.
Support the development security documentation that translates complex concepts, solutions, and organizational structure into compliant documentation that satisfies the CMMC compliance framework requirements. Security documentation includes but is not limited to: System Security Plan, Configuration Management Plan, Incident Response Plan, Contingency Plan, Risk Mitigation Plan, Vulnerability Management Plan, and general policy and procedures, as needed.
Provide consultative reviews of security documentation with accompanying remediation or enhancement recommendations.
Collaborative effectively within dynamic teams and across multiple customer organizations with diverse personalities and expertise to drive agreement on complex issues.
Ability and willingness to learn and support other security compliance frameworks.
Ability to successfully pass security framework certification requirements.
Broad based IT background with a technical understanding of networks, protocols, security configuration, cryptography and identity and access management.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including an ability to translate technical concepts and issues into non-technical or layman's terms.
Ability to successfully manage and lead multiple tasks.
Candidates must have one or more of the following industry certifications: CMMC Certified Professional, CMMC Certified Assessor
Preferred
ISC2 Certified in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (CGRC)/ Certified Authorization Professional (CAP)
CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
CompTIA Cloud+
CompTIA PenTest+
CompTIA Security+
GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
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Company
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Founded in 1994
1,001-5,000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$357.8MKey Investors
United States Air Force
2024-02-22Post Ipo Equity· $288M
2019-06-05Grant· $31.8M
2018-05-21Grant· $38M
Leadership Team
Eric DeMarco
President and CEO
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Ben Goodwin
SVP,Corporate Development & Government Affairs
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