Security Consultant

Overview

Readiness Delivered. At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard and care for our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers.

Do you want to be on the front lines of securing the nation’s defense supply chain from cyber crime, theft, espionage, and other threats? Helping small to large leading-edge organizations in the defense industrial base (DIB) secure their environments is at the core of what we do. As a Security Consultant for Kratos Commercial Cybersecurity Services division, you will support teams of professionals working to evaluate and secure a wide range of environments within some of the most advanced, leading-edge organizations in the world.

The ideal candidate will have a firm understanding of applying the principles of information security in a variety of circumstances and expertise translating security requirements into common technical implementations. Experience working across multiple compliance frameworks (CMMC, FedRAMP, DoD SRG, NIST, PCI, ISO, HIPAA, SOC, CJIS, etc.) is highly desirable.

• Expert‑level knowledge of the CMMC framework, including practice requirements and the assessment methodology.
• Regularly obtains continuing education necessary to maintain certifications and/or meet qualification requirements.
• Proactively maintains up‑to‑date knowledge of industry trends to enhance skills and abilities.
• Independently and proactively communicates progress on tasks and deliverables.
• Applies quality control practices to work product in advance of submission for quality assurance review.
• Takes ownership of opportunities to improve current service offerings.

• Provide critical input into the development of assessment artifacts including the Assessment Plan, Daily Checkpoint Logs, Risk Traceability Matrix, and Security Assessment Report and briefing.
• Conduct client interviews and participate in working sessions to assess the technical and operational adequacy and sufficiency of security practice implementations.
• Collaborate effectively within dynamic teams and across multiple customer organizations with diverse personalities and expertise to drive agreement on complex issues.
• Effectively document successful and unsuccessful security practice implementations that appropriately reflect testing methodologies and evidence used to determine security practice implementation effectiveness.
• Effectively cross‑walk multiple sources of evidence (artifacts, demonstrations, interviews, and tests) to assess the maturity of practice implementation throughout an organization.
• Conduct diagnostic/discovery sessions to gain an understanding of security architecture and practice implementations.
• Leverage understanding of security architecture and practice implementations to identify gaps and develop supporting documentation.
• Work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to assess and identify security compliance gaps and propose technical and operational remediation solutions.
• Provide consultative reviews of security documentation with accompanying remediation or enhancement recommendations.
• Collaborative effectively within dynamic teams and across multiple customer organizations with diverse personalities and expertise to drive agreement on complex issues.

• Conduct diagnostic/discovery sessions to gain an understanding of security architecture and practice implementations.
• Leverage understanding of security architecture and practice implementations to identify gaps and develop supporting documentation.
• Work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to assess and identify security compliance gaps and propose technical and operational remediation solutions.
• Provide consultative reviews of security documentation with accompanying remediation or enhancement recommendations.
• Collaborative effectively within dynamic teams and across multiple customer organizations with diverse personalities and expertise to drive agreement on complex issues.

• CMMC Certified…