RMF Cybersecurity Analyst- TS/SCI Job at General Dynamics Information Technology

Job Title: RMF Cybersecurity Analyst- TS/SCI

Location: USA MD Annapolis Junction, USA VA Sterling

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Job Family: Cyber Security

Job Qualifications:

Skills: Cyber Defense, Cybersecurity, RMF

Experience: 5+ years of related experience

US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description:

GDIT is your place. Make it your own by bringing your ideas and unique perspective to our culture. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you are helping us ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Risk Management Framework Cybersecurity Analyst joining our team to support Government activities in Washington, D.C., Annapolis Junction, MD, or Sterling, VA.

As a RMF Cybersecurity Analyst supporting the Federal Government and the Intelligence Community (IC), you will be entrusted with ensuring our IT engineering solutions meet the highest security standards, that they adhere to all applicable standards, guidelines, and mandates; and that all appropriate documentation necessary to make up a Body of Evidence (BoE) is provided to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and Authorizing Official (AO) to successfully justify the issuing an Authority to Operate (ATO).

In this role, a typical day may include:

• Acting as an appointed Information System Security Officer (ISSO) for IC cyber systems being developed by the engineering team.
• Reporting, documenting, and briefing the status of systems under development, while assuring their successful and timely progression through the client Risk Management Framework (RMF) to the satisfaction of the appointed Information System Security Manager (ISSM), and/or senior government leadership.
• Providing clear justification describing the satisfaction all applicable security control implementation as specified by the IC, AO, or NIST-800-53, rev 4 rev 5.
• Authoring System Security Plans (SSP).
• Authoring System Security Test Plans (SSTP).
• Conducting self-assessments of all systems under development.
• Analyzing security controls and the impact changes would introduce to the environment.
• Preparing for and assisting with formal risk assessments conducted by the AO’s designated Security Control Assessors (SCA) while acting as a member of the security assessment test team.
• Ensuring the remediation of any findings assigned to engineering as documented in the Security Assessment Report (SAR) and its Plan of Actions and Milestones (PO&AM).
• Documenting and defending reasoning when waivers are sought, or non-standard remediation solutions are requested for specific security controls.
• Assisting with the transition of systems granted an ATO to the Operations branch and the assignment of an operations ISSO.
• Researching remediation options for vulnerabilities identified for systems under development or already in production under an ATO.

What you’ll need:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a CI poly.
• Education: Bachelor of Science Degree, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work experience.
• DoD 8570 Information Assurance (Technical) IAT Level II certification compliance.
• Minimum of 3-years IC (SCI) RMF Assessment and Authorization (A&A) experience and the ability to describe the differences between collateral and SCI authorization requirements as they apply to DoD and IC instructions and guidelines.
• Ability to speak to the intent of all NIST 800-53 security controls.
• Minimum 1-year hands-on experience with the Xacta application.
• Excellent oral and technical writing skills.
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team.

Additional Information:

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Travel Required: None
• Telecommuting Options: Onsite

The likely salary range for this position is: $119,000 - $161,000.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.