Information Systems Security OfficerArlington, VA

Dark Wolf is looking for an Information System Security Officer to join a collaborative, dynamic team in a fast paced innovative mission environment. This position will work hand-in-hand with the customer team as well as external satellite software development contractors. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of information security principles, as well as experience in software development, security engineering, risk management, and compliance. The successful candidate will have strong written and verbal communication and problem-solving skills. The specialist must be able to analyze complex technical issues and develop effective technical solutions. Responsibilities include:

• Designing, testing, and implementing secure operating systems, networks, security monitoring, tuning and management of IT security systems and applications, incident response, digital forensics, loss prevention, and eDiscovery actions.
• Conducting risk and vulnerability assessment at the network, system and application level.
• Conducting threat modeling exercises.
• Developing and implementing security controls and formulates operational risk mitigations along with assisting in security awareness programs.
• Being involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access.
• Researching, evaluating and recommending new security tools, techniques, and technologies and introducing them to the enterprise in alignment with IT security strategy.
• Utilizing COTS/GOTS and custom tools and processes/procedures in order to scan, identify, contain, mitigate and remediate vulnerabilities, and intrusions.
• Assisting in the implementation of the required government policy (i.e., NISPOM, DCID 6/3), and making recommendations on process tailoring.
• Performing analyses to validate established security requirements and to recommend additional security requirements and safeguards.
• Supporting the formal Security Test and Evaluation (ST&E) required by each government accrediting authority through pre-test preparations, participation in the tests, analysis of the results, and preparation of required reports.
• Periodically conducting a review of each system's audits and monitors corrective actions until all actions are closed.
• Supporting cyber metrics development, maintenance and reporting.
• Providing briefings to senior staff.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years of experience in IT security and/or information assurance
• Experience and enjoyment in working directly with customers to improve cyber security posture
• Experience authoring and maintaining systems security documentation
• Experience in generating appropriate security documentation to receive proper accreditation from customer security personnel, and correcting security shortfalls as they are identified through customer sponsored reviews
• Understanding of cyber environment and threats of our cyber adversaries
• Possesses strong technical skills and analytic ability
• Bachelor's Degree
• IAT Lvl 2 certification (Sec+)
• US Citizenship and active Top Secret security clearance