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Information System Security Manager

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc
  • Huntsville, AL
    3 days ago

    Job Description

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    Required Skills / Experience:

    • U.S. Citizen
    • Must possess and maintain a US Secret security clearance. Top Secret, SCI eligible, security clearance is a plus.
    • Meet DoDD 8140 ISSM-Basic certification, education, and experience compliance.
    • Associates degree (Engineering, IT or Cyber-related field)
    • Experience with implementing and evaluating DoD STIG requirements, NIST RMF, IAVMs and Cybersecurity assessment tools (ACAS, Nessus, SCC, STIG Viewer)
    • Knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process and NIST security controls
    • Knowledge of information system architecture and standards as they apply to cyber security
    • Knowledge of NIST SP 800-160, Systems Security Engineering

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    • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance Coverage
    • Life/ADD & Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
    • 401(k) Savings Plan
    • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
    • Paid Time-Off (PTO)
    • Holidays
    • Education Reimbursement

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    5-D Systems, a KRATOS Company, is seeking a highly motivated candidate in support of our customer located at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, who will serve as an Information Systems Security Manager. The candidate will be supporting a Cyber Compliance Team providing ISSM-Basic support for tactical systems. The person will be a key member of a team performing Hardware and Software Cybersecurity analysis along with key functions supporting the Risk Management Framework (RMF) Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process for data processing, test, and tactical systems. Candidate must be able to prioritize competing requirements for time and resources and be able to adjudicate resource requirements based on understanding of Government customer and mission needs.

    Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

    • Provide accurate technical evaluations of the equipment, software applications, full systems, or network and documenting the security posture, capabilities, and vulnerabilities against applicable NIST controls.
    • Selecting and assessing security controls, timely completion of accreditation packages, formulating and implementing mitigations and maintaining the security posture of systems.
    • Must have experience with eMASS and initiating, updating, and maintaining RMF packages.
    • Identify, assess, make risk mitigation recommendations, and document system security threats/risks throughout a system's lifecycle; validate system security requirements; formulate and maintain documentation and system certification and accreditation activities (planning, testing, assessing and coordinating).
    • Ability to work with system developer to update, maintain, and track RMF and POA&M documentation.
    • Documenting preliminary or residual security risks for system operation and manage and approve Authorization Packages.
    • Monitoring and evaluating a system''s compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) security, resilience, and dependability requirements including performing validation steps, comparing actual results with expected results, and analyzing the differences to identify impacts and risks at the software application, system, and network levels.

    Work with teams to provide solutions and to ensure continued functionality of systems within DoD RMF Framework.

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    Numbers & Facts

    LocationHuntsville, AL
    IndustryAerospace and Defense
    Company Size1,500 to 1,999 employees
    Websitehttp://www.kratosdefense.com/

    About Company

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS) is a specialized Technology Company providing mission critical products, solutions and services for United States National Security. Kratos' core capabilities are sophisticated engineering, manufacturing and system integration offerings for National Security platforms and programs. Kratos' areas of expertise include Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Combat and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems, satellite communications, electronic warfare, unmanned systems, hypersonic systems, directed and high power energy systems, electromagnetic railgun, missile defense, cyber warfare, cybersecurity, information assurance, and critical infrastructure security. Kratos has primarily an engineering and technically oriented work force of approximately 3,100. Substantially all of Kratos' work is performed on a military base, in a secure facility or at a critical infrastructure location.

    Skills

    • Adjudicationunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Certification & Accreditation Process (C&A)unmatched
    • Computer Securityunmatched
    • Data Processingunmatched
    • Dental Insuranceunmatched
    • DoD Directive 8140unmatched
    • DoD Directive 8570unmatched
    • Documentationunmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • Governmentunmatched
    • Information Architectureunmatched
    • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
    • Internet Securityunmatched
    • Nessusunmatched
    • Operations Security (OPSEC)unmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • Requirements Validation/Verificationunmatched
    • Risk Analysisunmatched
    • Risk Managementunmatched
    • Risk Management Framework (RMF)unmatched
    • Secret Clearanceunmatched
    • Security Attacksunmatched
    • Security Clearanceunmatched
    • Security Monitoringunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Stock Purchase Plansunmatched
    • System Architectureunmatched
    • System Lifecycleunmatched
    • System Operationsunmatched
    • System Validationunmatched
    • Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
    • Systems Engineeringunmatched
    • Systems Maintenanceunmatched
    • Technical Analysisunmatched
    • Technical Supportunmatched
    • Testingunmatched
    • Top Secret Clearanceunmatched
    • U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched
    • United States Citizenunmatched
    • United States Department of Defense (DoD)unmatched
    • Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)unmatched
    • Vision Planunmatched

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