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Northrop Grumman · 3 weeks ago

Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst / Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$142K/yr - $213K/yr

6+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leading technology company that provides innovative solutions for global security challenges. The Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst / Information Systems Security Engineer will monitor and maintain mission-critical network infrastructure, perform assessments, and support certification and accreditation processes.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Perform assessments of systems and networks within the networking environment or enclave and identify where those systems and networks deviate from acceptable configurations, enclave policy, or local policy. This is achieved through passive evaluations such as compliance audits and active evaluations such as vulnerability assessments

Establishes strict program control processes to ensure mitigation of risks and supports obtaining certification and accreditation of systems

Includes support of process, analysis, coordination, security certification test, security documentation, as well as investigations, software research, hardware introduction and release, emerging technology research inspections and periodic audits

Assist in the implementation of the required government policy (i.e., NISPOM, DCID 6-3), make recommendations on process tailoring, participate in and document process activities

Perform analyses to validate established security requirements and to recommend additional security requirements and safeguards

Support the formal Security Test and Evaluation (ST&E) required by each government accrediting authority through pre-test preparations, participation in the tests, analysis of the results and preparation of required reports

Document the results of Certification and Accreditation activities and technical or coordination activity and prepare the system Security Plans and update the Plan of Actions and Milestones POA&M

Periodically conduct a complete review of each system's audits and monitor corrective actions until all actions are closed

Qualification

Risk Management FrameworkNIST 800.53Vulnerability AssessmentsSecurity TestEvaluationCISSP CertificationMicrosoft WindowsCloud ComputingNetwork Monitoring ToolsTechnical WritingCollaboration Skills

Required

US citizenship with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph is required

Bachelors degree with 8 years of experience; Masters degree with 6 years of experience; PhD with 4 years of experience or 12 years of experience with High School diploma

Experience reviewing technical security assessments of computing environments that identify points of vulnerability or non-compliance

Experience implementing the Risk Management Framework Process (RMF) and ability to support and document certification and accreditation artifacts

Must have experience supporting the A&A process for system accreditation

Applicant needs to be familiar with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and the process of accrediting a system through it as well as the nuances present in applying RMF

Applicant needs to be familiar with NIST800.53rev4, CNSS-1253, National Security Memorandum 8 (NSM-8), and the Zero Trust Architecture/Networking (ZTA/N) high-level concepts and possible implementations

Applicant should be familiar with both initial accreditation activities as well as continuous monitoring tasks and be willing to adapt to rapidly changing toolsets and controls requirements

Applicant should have familiarity with network monitoring and vulnerability detection tools such as Nessus, Rapid7, Splunk, Xacta as well as strong competency with Microsoft Office suite of products (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)

Preferred

CISSP, CASP, or other information technology security related certifications

Experience using Rapid 7 or Tenable Nessus applications

Background in Technical Writing or Instructional Systems Design would be helpful

Privileged/Power-user level of knowledge is strongly suggested in at least one of the following – Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Linux variants, Cloud computing infrastructure like AWS or Microsoft Azure