Acclaim Technical Services

Senior Information Systems Security Engineer (2024-0071)

MTBSU - Chantilly, VA - Full Time

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.

We are actively hiring a Senior Information Security System Engineer (ISSE) with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to join our team working in Chantilly, VA. You will support accreditation and security assessments on complex network and system infrastructure.  The selected individual will be embedded with a team of technical engineers and matrixed with other security engineers working on solving challenging issues on a large mission program.  The position requires a solid understanding of security practices and policies as well as hands-on vulnerability testing experience. The selected individual will collaborate with other engineers and technical experts in providing improvements to our operational and test systems.

Primary Responsibilities:
The selected candidate will have numerous responsibilities from day to day drawn from a wide array of activities. The strongest candidates will have experience working in these areas:
  • Validating and verifying system security requirements and establishing system security designs for large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
  • Identifying and implementing appropriate information security architectures and functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.
  • Recommending and developing technical solutions, products, and standards based on current and desired system security architecture.
  • Assessing and mitigating system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle.
  • Leading and/or contributing to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for various system and networking operations.
  • Effectively collaborating with other internal technical experts on a day-to-day basis.
  • Communicating with Program Managers and POCs from customer organizations when necessary, regarding Security issues of significant importance.
  • Working closely with System Engineering and Network Engineering teams to ensure that the hardware and software architecture and implementation meets security requirements.
  • Analyzing and assessing system implementation against multiple security compliance policies and recommending and implementing enhancements.
  • Evaluating security solutions to ensure they meet customer specified requirements for processing information.
  • Evaluating the impact of new development on the operational security posture of the system.
  • Evaluating, reviewing, and testing critical software.
  • Proposing, assessing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
  • Auditing and assessing system security configuration settings using common methodologies and tools.
  • Managing and enforcing security strategies and policies that effect various components of geographically distributed systems.
  • Providing configuration management for security-relevant information system software.
  • Serving as a subject matter expert in security architecture to include providing advice to Customer technical experts, and internal program teams.
  • Formulating security compliance requirements for new system features.
  • Identifying and remediating security issues throughout the system.
  • Supporting risk assessment, risk management, security control assessment, continuous monitoring, service design, and other IA program support functions.

Basic Qualifications:
  • Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
  • Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or a related discipline and a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be substituted for a degree.
  • Must have a solid understanding of security practices and policies and hands-on vulnerability testing experience.
  • Must have experience applying Risk Management Framework.
  • Must have experience formulating and assessing IT security policy.
  • Must have demonstrated knowledge of and experience with common security tools, such as Nessus, NMAP and Wireshark hardware/software security implementation, communication protocol, encryption techniques/tools, and web services.
  • Must have experience with secure configurations of commonly used desktop and server operating systems.
  • Must be comfortable working on multiple systems and components simultaneously in various configurations.
  • Must have strong verbal and written communications skills.
  • Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.
  • Must be able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs.
  • Must be capable of performing high quality work both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.



 

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