Job SummaryJCS Solutions is seeking a highly skilled
Cyber Security Manager within the IT Security division. The selected candidate will be responsible for operating, maintaining, and enhancing NICHD's computing environments to ensure the secure and reliable delivery of IT services to end users. This role focuses on proactively identifying and mitigating threats and vulnerabilities to maintain a robust security posture.
Key areas of responsibility include:- Cybersecurity
- FISMA Compliance Support
What you will do:CYBERSECURITY:
- Oversee routine vulnerability scanning capabilities across networks and systems.
- Oversees patching, hardening and baselining activities across networks; ensures other stakeholders are in compliance with established patching/hardening policies.
- Maintains, configures, and ensures the successful deployment of logging/auditing tools across the networks; ensures logging activities are functional across all networks
- Maintains system baseline and configuration management items, including security event monitoring policies in a manner determined and agreed to by the program management.
- Interacts with both Systems engineers and O&M personnel to ensure a complete and functioning system that meets requirements.
- Ensures all Network Defense capabilities are kept current, patched, securely configured, and communicates status to management.
- Analyzes the data flows into, out of, and across networks to ensure security gaps do not exist and data exchange is in line with system classification level.
FISMA COMPLIANCE SUPPORT:
- Researching, analyzing, and reporting on different trends using publicly available or collected data.
- Ensuring effective implementation of annual FISMA reporting review requirements.
- Reviewing security documentation of various NICHD systems to assure FISMA Compliance is effectively implemented and monitored.
- Having the necessary organization, experience, and technical controls.
What you will bring: CYBERSECURITY:
- Four (4) to six (6) years of hands-on experience providing technology leadership for IT Security.
- Three (3) or more years of experience of new and emerging cybersecurity technologies including but not limited to: hands-on tool usage of BigFix, Splunk, Tripwire, Cylance, Tenable etc.
- Knowledge of vulnerability information dissemination sources (e.g., alerts, advisories, errata, and bulletins).
- Experience with incident response and handling methodologies.
- Knowledge of current industry methods for evaluating, implementing, and disseminating information technology (IT) security assessment, monitoring, detection, and remediation tools and procedures utilizing standards-based concepts and capabilities.
FISMA COMPLIANCE SUPPORT:
- Four (4) to six (6) years of hands-on experience providing technology leadership for FISMA Compliance.
- Three (3) or more years of experience of new and emerging cybersecurity technologies including but not limited to: hands-on tool usage of BigFix, Splunk, Tripwire, Cylance, Tenable etc.
- Knowledge of vulnerability information dissemination sources (e.g., alerts, advisories, errata, and bulletins).
- Experience with Security Assessment and Authorization in Federal environment.
- Knowledge of current industry methods for evaluating, implementing, and disseminating information technology (IT) security assessment.
How you will wow us:- CISSP, CISA, CISM, and/or SSCP.
- Strong skills in the following key areas including strategic thinking, multi-tasking, negotiation, conflict management, time management, planning and executing to a defined schedule/budget.
- Able to communicate complex technical concepts and project information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of an integrated team and the ability to negotiate reasonable compromises among a diverse group of stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, technically challenging area; ability to anticipate changes, problems, or activities, assess impacts and recommend sound solutions.
- Able to work independently and motivated, capable of working across teams and organizations.
- Prefer experience with data analytics and combining data sets from multiple sources to provide reports for identifying risk and measuring security posture.
- Prefer strong skills in the following key areas including strategic thinking, multi-tasking, time management, planning and executing to a defined schedule.
- Expert level of experience with Microsoft products Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio.
- Prior experience using a helpdesk ticketing system such as ServiceNow is preferred.
- Prior federal government IT Security experience is preferred.
At JCS Solutions, compensation is based on a number of factors such as location, qualifications, and applicable contract terms. The general salary range for this position is as follows: $165,000.00 - $180,000.00
