ISSE, Senior Security Clearance

Position: ISSE, Senior with Security Clearance
Would you like to perform rewarding work while contributing to the success of an established, growing company? Navstar is an award-winning organization that has a proven track record of successfully providing IT services and solutions both as a prime and sub-contractor on mission focused IT programs. Our employees are integral players in support of mission-critical programs focused on our National Security.

Role

Description:

This position requires a solid understanding of security practices and policies as well as hands-on vulnerability testing experience. The selected candidate will have numerous responsibilities from day to day drawn from a wide array of activities. The strongest candidates will have experience working in these areas:
* Validating and verifying system security requirements and establishing system security designs for large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
* Identifying and implementing appropriate information security architectures and functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.
* Recommending and developing technical solutions, products, and standards based on current and desired system security architecture.
* Assessing and mitigating system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle.
* Leading and/or contributing to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for various system and networking operations.
* Effectively collaborating with other internal technical experts on a day-to-day basis.
* Communicating with Program Managers and POCs from customer organizations when necessary regarding Security issues of significant importance.
* Participating in program increment planning and related agile team activities.
* Working closely with System Engineering, Test Engineering, and Integration teams to ensure that the hardware and software architecture and implementation meets the security requirements for processing classified information.
* Analyzing and assessing system implementation against multiple security compliance policies and recommending and implementing enhancements.
* Evaluating the impact of new development on the operational security posture of the system.
* Evaluating, reviewing, and testing security-critical software.
* Proposing, assessing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
* Auditing and assessing system security configuration settings using common methodologies and tools.
* Managing and enforcing security strategies and policies that effect various components of the geographically distributed systems.
* Evaluating security solutions to ensure they meet customer specified requirements for processing classified information.
* Providing configuration management for security-relevant information system software.
* Serving as a subject matter expert in security architecture to include providing advice to Program Managers, Customer technical experts, and internal program teams.
* Formulating security compliance requirements for new system features.
* Identifying and remediating security issues throughout the system.
* Supporting risk assessment, risk management, security control assessment, continuous monitoring, service design, and other IA program support functions.
* Working with development teams to enrich team-wide understanding of different types of vulnerabilities, attack vectors and remediation approaches.
* Planning and conducting security verification testing of relevant type 1 devices.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

* To be eligible for this position you must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
* Must have a solid understanding of security practices and policies and hands-on vulnerability testing experience.
* Must have experience applying Risk Management Framework.
* Must have experience formulating and assessing IT security policy.
* Must have demonstrated knowledge of and experience with common security tools, such as Nessus, NMAP and Wireshark hardware/software security implementation, communication protocol, encryption techniques/tools, and web services.
* Must have experience with secure configurations of commonly used desktop and server operating systems.
* Must be comfortable working on multiple systems and components simultaneously in various configurations.
* Must have strong verbal and written communications skills.
* Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.
* Must be able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs.
* Must be capable of performing high quality work both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment. Desired Skills and

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance,…