The following states/districts are excluded from this job ad: AK, CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, LA, MA, MN, MO, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OR, PR, RI, VT, WA, WYFuture Need - Actively InterviewingLocation: Remote in any United States jurisdiction not excluded from this job advertisement.
Protect the compliance posture of a mission-critical Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) cloud platform. As a Cybersecurity Analyst, you will manage Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms), Technical Reference Model (TRM) submissions, and security documentation across hundreds of applications in a multi-tenant Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud environment.
Position Description: The Cybersecurity Analyst manages POA&M tracking, TRM submissions, Business Partner Extranet (BPE) connection management, and supports security documentation for the platform.
Minimum/General Experience: 5 years of experience in cybersecurity and information assurance
Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in cybersecurity, information technology, or related field; CompTIA Security+ or Certified Authorization Professional (CAP) certification (preferred)
Essential Skills/Qualifications:- Excellent experience creating and maintaining POA&Ms (e.g., periodic review, milestone updates, and mitigation plan detail)
- Excellent ability to ensure POA&M alignment to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) security control families and Control Correlation Identifiers (CCI)
- Excellent experience drafting and maintaining TRM submissions
- Excellent ability to submit and maintain Business Partner Extranet (BPE) connection requests (e.g., information gathering, request submission, and BPE admin team coordination)
- Excellent knowledge of POA&M closure criteria
- Above average experience maintaining security documentation (e.g., Security Impact Analysis (SIA), Information System Vulnerability Management Plan (ISVMP), Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), Privacy Threshold Analysis (PTA), and Configuration Management Plan artifacts)
- Experience supporting a federal agency
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
General Physical Requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on the location of the assignment.
- Assignment Location - Remote
- Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
- Typing, communicating, repetitive motions.
- Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.
- Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.
Security: Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years
Federal Civilian Public Trust Consists of a review of up to but not limited to:
- Covers 10 year period and in some instances lifetime events
- OPM Security Investigations Index (SII)
- DOD Defense Central Investigations Index (DCII)
- National Agency Check (NAC) records
- FBI name check
- FBI fingerprint check
- Credit report check
- Written inquiries to previous employers and references listed on the application for employment
- Potential interviews with the subject, spouse, neighbors, supervisor, coworkers
- Law enforcement check
- Court records check
- Education check - Attendance and Degrees
Tasks/activities include, but are not limited to:- Creates and maintains POA&M within ServiceNow (SNOW) Continuous Authorization Monitoring (CAM) ensuring proper alignment to relevant NIST security control families and CCI
- Drafts and maintains POA&M verbiage aligning with findings and clearly depicting mitigation strategy and timeline as required by the portfolio Information System Owner
- Ensures POA&Ms are closed out once overcome by events (OBE), mitigated, or no longer relevant to the system to which they are assigned
- Drafts justification verbiage and attends TRM approval board meetings for software and application usage requests; submits requests for TRM entry removal as usage becomes unneeded
- Submits and maintains BPE connection requests including information gathering and staffing all required BPE admin team meetings
- Catalogs and maintains a complete list of all BPE connections used within the platform and manages removal of connections no longer needed
- Maintains and updates security documentation including SIA, ISVMP, PIA, PTA, and Configuration Management Plan artifacts for hosted applications
- Reports issues and approaching TRM authorization ends with potential to affect managed applications to the appropriate portfolio Information System Owner
- Contributes POA&M status, TRM activity, and BPE connection updates to the monthly RMF, security, and Authorization to Operate (ATO) status report
Compensation & Benefits: The annual projected pay range for this position is $90,897 - $118,016 with consideration being given to various factors including but not limited to qualifications, experience, job responsibilities, and geographic location.
Oxley Enterprises, Inc. offers a full array of benefits including:
- Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
- Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
- Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
- Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
- 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.
