Information Assurance Specialist

Overview

VTG Defense has an exciting opening for a Cybersecurity Specialist to support a large customer organization in the fast-growing National Security Group. This position is located in Bethesda, MD.

Primary responsibilities and tasks may include some or all of the following:

• Respond to congressional inquiries on Cybersecurity issues; turning cybersecurity needs and capabilities into requirements and detailed technical solutions; developing and maintaining a list of Cybersecurity Architecture needs, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans; analyzing cybersecurity best practices to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Developing and publishing baseline security requirements for common enterprise services to ensure capabilities are in compliance with cybersecurity directives and policies; conducting critical path analysis, risk analysis, and task dependency analysis; developing security requirements and constraints to provide input to foundational technical documents, including program architectural artifacts, business cases, and concept of operations.
• Documenting architectural rules for Zero Trust
• Diagram an interim and future architecture for Zero Trust implementation
• Define/communicate the Zero Trust integration expectations for all ITE services
• Create a Zero Trust playbook

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph
• Requires BS degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience in order to operate within the scope contemplated by the level. Additional experience may be exchanged for degree requirements.
• Secure cloud architecture expertise
• Detail-oriented, ability to consistently provide high-quality products that are concise, thorough, and accurate.
• Ability to adapt in response to shifts in customer priorities.
• Expert knowledge in Identity, Authentication and Authorization.
• Experience partnering across the IC

VTG’s estimated starting pay range is $165,000-$178,000 annually, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.