Cybersecurity Analyst (Remote)

Oxley Enterprises • Stafford, VA

22h • Remote

About The Position

Protect the compliance posture of a mission-critical Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) cloud platform. As a Cybersecurity Analyst, you will manage Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms), Technical Reference Model (TRM) submissions, and security documentation across hundreds of applications in a multi-tenant Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud environment. The Cybersecurity Analyst manages POA&M tracking, TRM submissions, Business Partner Extranet (BPE) connection management, and supports security documentation for the platform.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience in cybersecurity and information assurance
• Bachelor's Degree in cybersecurity, information technology, or related field
• Excellent experience creating and maintaining POA&Ms (e.g., periodic review, milestone updates, and mitigation plan detail)
• Excellent ability to ensure POA&M alignment to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) security control families and Control Correlation Identifiers (CCI)
• Excellent experience drafting and maintaining TRM submissions
• Excellent ability to submit and maintain Business Partner Extranet (BPE) connection requests (e.g., information gathering, request submission, and BPE admin team coordination)
• Excellent knowledge of POA&M closure criteria
• Above average experience maintaining security documentation (e.g., Security Impact Analysis (SIA), Information System Vulnerability Management Plan (ISVMP), Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), Privacy Threshold Analysis (PTA), and Configuration Management Plan artifacts)
• Experience supporting a federal agency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years

Nice To Haves

• CompTIA Security+ or Certified Authorization Professional (CAP) certification

Responsibilities

• Manages POA&M tracking, TRM submissions, Business Partner Extranet (BPE) connection management, and supports security documentation for the platform.
• Creates and maintains POA&M within ServiceNow (SNOW) Continuous Authorization Monitoring (CAM) ensuring proper alignment to relevant NIST security control families and CCI.
• Drafts and maintains POA&M verbiage aligning with findings and clearly depicting mitigation strategy and timeline as required by the portfolio Information System Owner.
• Ensures POA&Ms are closed out once overcome by events (OBE), mitigated, or no longer relevant to the system to which they are assigned.
• Drafts justification verbiage and attends TRM approval board meetings for software and application usage requests; submits requests for TRM entry removal as usage becomes unneeded.
• Submits and maintains BPE connection requests including information gathering and staffing all required BPE admin team meetings.
• Catalogs and maintains a complete list of all BPE connections used within the platform and manages removal of connections no longer needed.
• Maintains and updates security documentation including SIA, ISVMP, PIA, PTA, and Configuration Management Plan artifacts for hosted applications.
• Reports issues and approaching TRM authorization ends with potential to affect managed applications to the appropriate portfolio Information System Owner.
• Contributes POA&M status, TRM activity, and BPE connection updates to the monthly RMF, security, and Authorization to Operate (ATO) status report.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
• Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
• Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
• Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
• 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level