Designated Authority Officer (DAO)

Synergy ECP • Columbia, MD

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Synergy ECP is a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) established in July 2007, headquartered in Columbia, MD. We provide a wide range of services to the defense, intelligence, and healthcare industries. Synergy ECP has excelled in a competitive market by embodying excellence in our Employees, Customers, and Performance Improvement (ECP). This approach allows us to be an autonomous yet agile business that delivers significant results, meeting our customers' evolving demands. Our client base includes numerous Fortune 100 companies, as well as multiple branches of the US government and military services. Synergy ECP is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Requirements

• Ten years or related work experience.
• DoD 8570-01-M compliance with Security Authorization Professional or System Security Engineer.
• Previous work experience as one of the following: IT Risk Assessor, System Security Engineer, Information Systems Security Manager, or DAO; substitution for work experience is at the discretion of the COR.
• Working knowledge of the following is required: system security design process, defense-in-depth/breadth, engineering life cycle, information domains, cross-domain solutions, controlled interfaces, identification, authentication and authorization, system integration, ICD 503 (formerly NISCAP), risk management, intrusion detection, contingency planning, incident handling, configuration control, change management, auditing, security authorization process, principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, availability, access control), and security testing.
• IAM, Level II, CISSP (or Associate)

Nice To Haves

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or IT Engineering is desired and may be substituted for four years of experience; substitution of work experience is at the discretion of the COR.

Responsibilities

• Assists in identifying overall security requirements for the protection of data, to ensure the implementation of appropriate information security controls.
• Assists in performing and analyzing the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management process, security control assessments, and awareness activities for systems, and networking operations.
• Provides assistance to ensure IA functions are included in the configuration management process.
• Interacts with customers, IT staff, and high-level corporate officers to assist in defining and achieving required IA objectives for the organization.
• Contributes to building security architecture.
• Assists with the integration of legacy systems.
• Contributes to the acquisition/RDT&E environment and building IA into systems deployed to operational environments.
• Prepares security authorization documentation.

What This Job Offers

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