Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience (or Master's degree with 6 years)
CySA+ or equivalent IAT Level II certification required
Proven experience in managing and mentoring junior team members
Expertise in cyber threat intelligence and incident response
Experience in organizing 24/7 cybersecurity operations
Familiarity with classified government networks and cybersecurity operations
Strong skills in developing and improving Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Responsibilities
Maintain operational security posture for information systems
Lead and develop a 24/7 Watch Team of 11 personnel across two locations
Perform Information Assurance (IA) and Computer Network Defense (CND) functions
Interface with external organizations via VTC, phone, and email
Brief senior government leaders and stakeholders
Support information assurance programs for systems or enclaves
Evaluate security solutions for classified information processing
Benefits
Opportunity to work in a mission-critical environment
Collaborative team culture with cross-functional engagement
Professional development through mentoring and leadership opportunities
Exposure to senior government leadership
Engagement in cutting-edge cybersecurity operations
Full Job Description
4579 Lead Cyber Watch Officer 4579 | Top Secret
Job Description:
OVERVIEW:
We are seeking an experienced cyber professional to join our team and support our mission critical customer in Reston, VA. As our Lead Cyber Security Officer, you will maintain the operational security posture for an information system to ensure security policies, standards, and procedures are established and followed. Your previous experience working collaboratively with staff at all levels to deliver to deliver short-term, medium-term, and long-term commitments will enable us to complete and coordinate tasks across cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Maintaining operational security posture for an information system or program to ensure information systems security policies, standards, and procedures are established and followed.
Leading and developing a 24/7/365 Watch Team of 11 personnel, distributed across two geographical locations.
Performing a variety of Information Assurance (IA) and Computer Network Defense (CND) functions which are broad in nature and support multi-tier IA and CND functions. Examples may include writing and tracking multi-organization Requests For Information (RFI), ensuring quality control of status reports, audit/inspection, certification and accreditation, vulnerability management, detection and response support services.
Interfacing effectively via VTC, phone and email with multiple external organizations.
Personally briefing very senior government leaders and stakeholders.
Providing support for a program, organization, system, or enclave's information assurance program.
Providing support for proposing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
Evaluating security solutions to ensure they meet security requirements for processing classified information.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Education & Years of Experience: Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience related to specific functional area (may substitute master's degree in lieu of 2 years of experience).
Certifications: Hold or attain a CySA+ or equivalent IAT Level II certification.
Experience and knowledge on:
Managing, coaching and mentoring junior team members.
Leading the oversight, collection, and reporting of cyber threat intelligence, event analysis, and incident response.
Organizing and scheduling 24x7x365 operations in a cybersecurity, IT or related watch environment.
Consolidating and reporting on daily performance and health metrics to provide ongoing situational awareness to Government leadership.
Incident case management solutions to document and report on incidents to meet audit, compliance, and legal requirements.
Developing and continuously improving Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Classified Government networks, technology stacks, and cybersecurity operations. Experience with providing oversight and coordination in support of cross-agency response teams.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Security certifications: CySA+
CLEARANCE:
Active TS/SCI Clearance with CI Polygraph
Job Details
City : Reston
State : VA
About Affinity
Affinity’s patented technology structures and analyzes millions of data points across emails, calendars, and third-party sources to offer users the tools they need to automatically manage their most valuable relationships, prioritize important connections, and discover untapped opportunities. Affinity uses artificial intelligence to analyze relationship strength and illuminate the best paths to warm introductions. The platform also offers a holistic view of users’ networks in a centralized, automatically updated database without any manual upkeep. Founded in 2014, Affinity is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Affinity has raised $120M to date and is backed by leading investors including Menlo Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, 8VC and MassMutual Ventures.
It has over 2,700 customers in 70 countries, including venture capital firms such as Bain Capital Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, private equity firms such as SoftBank Group, investment bankers such as Woodside Capital Partners, financial services firms such as Fidelity Investments, real estate companies such as Tishman Speyer, insurers such as American Family Insurance and enterprises such as Nike, Qualcomm and Twilio.
Affinity has been named in Fortune Magazine's Best Workplaces, Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces and editor's number one pick, the Data Breakthrough Award, BIG Innovation Award and others.
