Information Technology Specialist; Security)(Direct

Serves as the Security Engineer, responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Goddard's critical data and IT assets. Provides secure solutions to meet complex problems, works with organizations to enhance and strengthen information security and integrate it throughout the system life cycle. Provides support to plan, design and implement security controls which safeguard/monitor anomalous events for networks, information systems, enterprise applications and data.

• Maintain, configure, or analyze network and host-based security platforms and/or associated reports. Apply advanced statistical data and trends to interpret meaning and evaluate findings. Reconcile conflicts between basic policies and program goals.
• Develop long-range plans for IT security systems that anticipate, identify, evaluate, mitigate, and minimize risks associated with IT systems vulnerabilities and system exploitations.
• Develop/interpret policy and procedural controls covering physical security, application/data security, system software security, contingency planning, and compliance with clearance procedures, contractor/technical security education/training.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and investigate security-related, information systems' anomalies based on security platform reporting, network traffic, log files, host-based and automated security alerts and provide mitigation strategies.
• Support Incident Response, Threat Management and Vulnerability Management teams. Respond to information security related events and requirements during the conduct of system forensic analysis often critical to civil and criminal investigations.
• Provide expert analysis and advice to technical community while maintaining strong relationships with senior executives, managers, and system/network engineers. Review proposed new systems, networks, and software designs for potential security risks.
• Serve as Center Alternate Communications Security (COMSEC) Manager. Oversee Center COMSEC inventory and its use; maintain COMSEC account files. Prepare/submit Destruction, Transfer, Inventory, and Possession Material Reports and other reports.

• This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
• This position may require a one-year probationary/trial period. If selected, the requirement to serve such period will be determined by Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 11.
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• You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation.
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement.