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Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert
Soft Tech Consulting
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Remote Eligibility
Hybrid
Domain
GRC
State
Virginia
City
Fort Belvoir
Job Description
Posted on:
September 19, 2024
Primary NIST Speciality
Oversee and Govern
NIST Sub-speciality
Program/Project Management and Acquisition
Seniority
Senior
Salary ($K)
-
Summary and company overview
Summary
Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert - Lead. The selected individual will join a collaborative team environment where they will provide expertise and guidance for the project, including defining the projects objectives, and assist in coordinating the efforts of team members in order to deliver the project according to plan. Key to the success of this position is the successful delivery of projects and effective communication to all levels of staff for reporting project status.
MUST HAVE SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE
WORK LOCATION: FORT BELVOIR, VA
WORK SCHEDULE: HYBRID
Company Overview
Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.
Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Responsibilities
- Provides expert support, research and analysis of exceptionally complex problems, and processes relating to them.
- Serves as technical expert to the Cybersecurity Assessment Program providing technical direction, interpretation and alternatives to complex problems.
- Applies advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.
- Contributes to the development of new principles, concepts, and methodologies.
- Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides highly innovative and ingenious solutions.
- Recommends cybersecurity software tools and assists in the development of software tool requirements and selection criteria to include the development of product specific STIGs from applicable DISA SRGs.
- Performs a DoD cybersecurity process while either authorizing an information system or serving as a SME for an information system undergoing authorization.
- and outsourced IT processes.
- Determines the applicable severity value for an identified vulnerability (e.g., noncompliant security control), and determines the possible ramifications on the system’s current or future authorization.
- Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives.
- Assignments are often self-initiated.
- Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.
- Develops advanced technological ideas and guides their development into a final product.
- Expertise in the area of cybersecurity and evaluations
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications
- 10 years IT experience
- 5 years IA experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for resolving security issues
- 5 years of relevant C&A experience; Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST C&A experience; DoD cybersecurity experience
- Strong knowledge of NIST 800-82 Rev 3, and Purdue Model
- Experience in assessing/validating security controls and conducting authorization reviews for large, complex organizations.
- Proficiency in basic analytical software such as Microsoft Excel and Access, proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite, to include Word, PowerPoint
- Must have DHS ICS 301/301V or 401/401V certificates.
- SECRET clearance and be eligible for an IT-II upon assignment.
- Relevant certification meeting DoD 8570.01 IAM level III
- Demonstrated track record of completing IT and OT cybersecurity engineering and risk assessment tasks relevant to the contract scope— including all OT Pillars—and a range of control system types (e.g., automated material handling systems, automated fuel handling systems, enterprise security systems, etc.)
- Strong knowledge/application of relevant IT and OT standards/issuances and frameworks
- Thinks independently and demonstrates exceptional written and oral communications skills.
Additional commentary
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Summary and company overview
Summary
Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert - Lead. The selected individual will join a collaborative team environment where they will provide expertise and guidance for the project, including defining the projects objectives, and assist in coordinating the efforts of team members in order to deliver the project according to plan. Key to the success of this position is the successful delivery of projects and effective communication to all levels of staff for reporting project status.
MUST HAVE SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE
WORK LOCATION: FORT BELVOIR, VA
WORK SCHEDULE: HYBRID
Company Overview
Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.
Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
About
Soft Tech Consulting
Company Size
Small (<500)
Employer type
Enterprise
Company Rating (Glassdoor)
4.4
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