Systems Security Manager; ISSM - Springfield VA

Information Systems Security Manager (ISSM)

As Information Systems Security Manager (ISSM), you will provide cybersecurity support to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Springfield, VA.

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Must have an active DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Acquire and manage the necessary resources, including leadership support, financial resources, and key security personnel, to support information technology (IT) security goals and objectives and reduce overall organizational risk.
• Acquire necessary resources, including financial resources, to conduct an effective enterprise continuity of operations program.
• Collect and maintain data needed to meet system cybersecurity reporting.
• Communicate the value of information technology (IT) security throughout all levels of the organization stakeholders.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to establish the enterprise continuity of operations program, strategy, and mission assurance.
• Ensure that security improvement actions are evaluated, validated, and implemented as required.
• Ensure that cybersecurity inspections, tests, and reviews are coordinated for the network environment.
• Ensure that cybersecurity requirements are integrated into the continuity planning for that system and/or organization(s).
• Ensure that protection and detection capabilities are acquired or developed using the IS security engineering approach and are consistent with organization-level cybersecurity architecture.
• Establish overall enterprise information security architecture (EISA) with the organization's overall security strategy.
• Evaluate and approve development efforts to ensure that baseline security safeguards are appropriately installed.
• Evaluate cost/benefit, economic, and risk analysis in decision-making process.
• Identify alternative information security strategies to address organizational security objectives.
• Identify information technology (IT) security program implications of new technologies or technology upgrades.
• Interface with external organizations (e.g., public affairs, law enforcement, Command or Component Inspector General) to ensure appropriate and accurate dissemination of incident and other Computer Network Defense information.
• Interpret and/or approve security requirements relative to the capabilities of new information technologies.
• Interpret patterns of noncompliance to determine their impact on levels of risk and/or overall effectiveness of the enterprise's cybersecurity program.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the enterprise's cybersecurity safeguards to ensure that they provide the intended level of protection.
• Participate in an information security risk assessment during the Security Assessment and Authorization process.
• Prepare, distribute, and maintain plans, instructions, guidance, and standard operating procedures concerning the security of network system(s) operations.
• Ability to apply techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions using intrusion detection technologies.
• Ability to identify critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.