Part-time Senior IT Security Analyst Position

Apptis is an innovative, forward-thinking information technology services and solutions provider.  We take great pride in supplying, designing, and supporting technology solutions to the government and commercial marketplace. Our steadfast goal is to deliver inspired solutions that are agile, cost effective, and reliable. To learn more about working at Apptis, visit our Web site at www.apptis.com. 

Senior IT Security Analyst Position

** The position will be three days a week during traditional business hours**

General Requirements:

Candidate will serve as the Lead Security Engineer to perform Risk Assessments, Security Test and Evaluation (ST&E) as well as reviewing and evaluating C&A packages, and developing security policies, guidance, and templates.  The primary location will be CMS in Baltimore.

The Senior IT Security Analyst serves as the Information System Security Officer (ISSO) for the CMS systems, and will provide documentation, policy compliance, technical configuration and review, and user training.  The IT Security Analyst also helps guide System Owners through the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process, ensuring that management, operational, and technical controls for securing either National Security Systems or SBU level IT Systems are in place and are followed.  This includes ensuring that appropriate steps are taken to implement information security requirements for IT systems throughout their life cycle, from the requirements definition phase through disposal.  Additional responsibilities may include conducting Risk Assessments, ST&E, vulnerability/penetration testing, assurance of vulnerability mitigation, and training on C&A tools.

Required:

•  Excellent oral and written communications skills

•  Self motivated problem solver, ability to learn quickly

•  Able to establish and maintain a strong customer focused working relationship

•  Must be able to pass a Government Background Investigation

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Support the effort to document the system operating environment, to include the overall mission, floor layout, hardware configuration, software, type of information processed, user organizations and security clearances, operating mode, interconnections to other systems/networks of users, their security personnel, and associated responsibilities;

2. Assist in the development of the overall system security document, the Information System Security Plan, which contains all necessary security procedures, instructions, operating plans, and guidance;

3. Participate in the development or revision of System-specific security safeguards and local operating procedures that are based on agency and/or federal regulations; and

4. Provide IT security consulting to system owners as to the other security documents, for example, security incident reports, equipment/software inventories, operating instructions, technical vulnerability reports, and contingency plans.

 

To apply for the position, please visit our career page at: www.apptis.com/careers.sec  - reference requisition number MD 258680



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