Information Assurance Engineer

• Requires 5-9 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD
• Requires an active TS/SCI level clearance

Peraton is seeking an Information Assurance Engineer to support our customer onsite in Springfield, VA:

• Designs and implements information assurance and security engineering systems with requirements of business continuity, operations security, cryptography, forensics, regulatory compliance, internal counter-espionage (insider threat detection and mitigation), physical security analysis (including facilities analysis, and security management).
• Assesses and mitigates system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Validates system security requirements definition and analysis.
• Establishes system security designs. Implements security designs in hardware, software, data, and procedures.
• Verifies security requirements; performs system certification and accreditation planning and testing and liaison activities.
• Supports secure systems operations and maintenance.
• Provides technical and programmatic information assurance services to internal and external customers in support of network and information security systems.
• Designs, develops, and implements security requirements within an organization’s business processes.
• Prepares documentation from information obtained from customer using accepted guidelines.
• Prepares security test and evaluation plans.
• Provides certification and accreditation support in the development of security and contingency plans and conducts complex risk and vulnerability assessments.
• Analyzes policies and procedures against Federal laws and regulations and provides recommendations for closing gaps.
• Recommends system enhancements to improve security deficiencies. Develops, tests, and integrates computer and network security tools.
• Secures system configurations and installs security tools, scans systems to determine compliancy and report results and evaluates products and various aspects of system administration.
• Conducts security program audits and develops solutions to lessen identified risks.
• Provides information assurance support for the development and implementation of security architectures to meet new and evolving security requirements.
• Provides assistance in computer incident investigations.
• Performs vulnerability assessments including development of risk mitigation strategies.