Job Description
Overview:
AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a 100% employee-owned federal contractor, is seeking a highly experienced Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), Master to provide cybersecurity architecture, security engineering, and risk management support for complex systems in Dallas, TX.
This role performs senior-level ISSO and ISSE duties, supporting system security engineering, assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring under the JSIG, RMF, and applicable NIST SP 800-series guidance in a Special Access Program (SAP) environment.
*** This role includes a $10,000 Sign-on Bonus in addition to a comprehesive compensation package! ***
Responsibilities:
As an Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), Master at AMERICAN SYSTEMS, you will:
- Develop and integrate cybersecurity architectures for systems and networks processing multiple classification levels
- Perform senior-level ISSO and ISSE duties throughout the system development, authorization, and continuous monitoring life cycles
- Apply JSIG, RMF, and NIST SP 800-series requirements to system design, control implementation, assessment, and authorization
- Manually develop and maintain authorization artifacts and bodies of evidence, including SSPs, control narratives, POA&Ms, inventories, diagrams, and assessment evidence
- Evaluate security architectures and system changes for impacts to security controls, authorization boundaries, and risk posture
- Perform hands-on security assessments using command-line audits, compliance scans, configuration analysis, log reviews, and control validation
- Identify security gaps and develop actionable risk management, remediation, and POA&M plans
- Determine protection needs and coordinate the allocation of system-specific, hybrid, and common controls
- Implement secure configuration processes and assess compliance with STIGs and Security Requirements Guides
- Use Tenable, Trellix, SolarWinds, SIEM, SCAP, OpenSCAP, and Evaluate-STIG to assess vulnerabilities, configurations, and controls
- Review system diagrams, data flows, inventories, interconnections, and configurations for accuracy and security compliance
- Coordinate with program security, authorization officials, assessors, system owners, engineers, and administrators
- Provide technical leadership for complex SAP cybersecurity, incident response, remediation, and authorization activities
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with SAP eligibility
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- 11–12 years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, information assurance, systems security engineering, or ISSO support
- DoD 8140 IAM-III level certification (e.g. CISM, CISSP, GSLC, or CCISO)
- Experience performing combined ISSO and ISSE duties for classified systems in a SAP environment
- Advanced knowledge of the JSIG, RMF, and applicable NIST SP 800-series publications
- Proven experience manually developing authorization artifacts and bodies of evidence without reliance on automated RMF tools
- Experience authoring SSPs, control narratives, POA&Ms, inventories, architecture diagrams, and assessment evidence
- Hands-on experience assessing Linux and Windows systems through command-line validation, compliance scanning, configuration reviews, and log analysis
- Experience implementing and assessing STIGs, Security Requirements Guides, and secure configuration baselines
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture, firewalls, remote access, network infrastructure, and systems integration
- Experience preparing systems for authorization, reassessment, continuous monitoring, and security inspections
- Ability to identify deficiencies, assess risk, and provide actionable remediation recommendations
- Ability to coordinate with customers, security officials, system owners, engineers, and administrators
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Dallas, Texas |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Industry | Internet Services |
| Company Size | 1,000 to 1,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1975 |
About Company
Founded in 1975, AMERICAN SYSTEMS is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the United States, with approximately 1,400 employees nationwide. Based in the Washington, DC, suburb of Chantilly, VA, the company provides systems engineering, technical and managed services to government and private sector customers. AMERICAN SYSTEMS was named “Contractor of the Year” at the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards in October, 2007.
Skills
- Access Authorizationunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Architectural Analysisunmatched
- Change Controlunmatched
- Command Lineunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Computer Securityunmatched
- Enterprise Architectureunmatched
- Federal Contractsunmatched
- Firewallsunmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Information Systems Security Engineering (ISSE)unmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Internet Securityunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Operating Systemunmatched
- Needs Assessmentunmatched
- Network Administration/Managementunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Project/Program Coordinationunmatched
- Publicationsunmatched
- Remote Accessunmatched
- Riskunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Security Analysisunmatched
- Security Architectureunmatched
- Security Complianceunmatched
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)unmatched
- Security Monitoringunmatched
- System Architectureunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched
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