Alternate Facility Security Officer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an Alternate Facility Security Officer (AFSO) to support a growing client in the defense and intelligence community industry in the Reston, VA area. The Alternate Facility Security Officer (AFSO) role requires you to sit onsite 5 days per week from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The Alternate Facility Security Officer (AFSO) role is ideal for a security professional with experience supporting classified programs, personnel security, physical security operations, and contract security administration within secure environments.

• Support day-to-day AFSO and CSSO activities for classified programs, ensuring compliance with government security regulations and customer requirements.
• Coordinate physical security initiatives, including SCIF build support, visitor control, escorting personnel, and management of electronic device entry and exit procedures.
• Administer contract security requirements, including DD254 reviews, onboarding/offboarding personnel, clearance processing, and tasking coordination across assigned programs.
• Manage personnel security activities utilizing DISS, including clearance verification, visit requests, access requests, and security records maintenance.
• Partner with program leadership, contracts teams, and government stakeholders to ensure compliance with NISPOM, NIST, and customer-specific security requirements.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
• Experience supporting AFSO, CSSO, Facility Security, or Industrial Security functions within classified environments.
• Strong knowledge of physical security operations, including SCIF support, escorting procedures, access control, and secure facility management.
• Experience administering DD254 requirements, contract security oversight, onboarding/offboarding processes, and personnel security programs.
• Hands-on experience with DISS and familiarity with NIST security standards and compliance frameworks.

• 105, annually
• Full Comprehensive Benefits:
  Health, Vision, Dental, PTO, Paid Holiday and Sick Leave if Required by Law.
• This job opens for applications on 9/4/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

/SCI, CI Polygraph, DISS, DD254, NISPOM, NIST, Personnel Security, Physical Security, Industrial Security, SCIF, Contract Security, Reston, Virginia, Intelligence Community

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