ISSO

BDR Solutions LLC • Washington, DC

16h • Hybrid

About The Position

BDR Solutions, LLC, (BDR) supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solution delivery starts with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance business and technical operations and deployments.
BDR is sourcing for a technical documentation specialist to support a federal government client. The duties of this position can be performed virtually, and the contractor may work remotely from their home office, however they will be required to support EST business hours. Some travel (10-25%) may be required but is unlikely.
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced ISSO to join our team and work as part of the IT Security Support Team which manages and operates an information systems program supporting our government customer.

Requirements

• Will be required to work onsite (hybrid 3 days onsite).
• B.S. in Information Technology or a closely related field
• 8+ years of progressive, technical (hands-on) experience in Information Assurance C&A.
• Experience working as an ISSO supporting federal government information systems.
• Experience with ISO, NIST and US Government standards and cybersecurity frameworks (e.g. FISMA, FIPS, HSPD), system administration.
• IT security management, engineering, and analysis experience.
• Must have an active CISSP or CISM certification.
• Eligible for Top Secret clearance (active clearance preferred)
• In addition, U.S Citizenship is required. Select applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and be able to obtain a government-granted security clearance. Individuals may also be subject to a background investigation including, but not limited to criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support in the areas of vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, network security, product evaluation, security implementation, and remediation.
• Provide technical assistance in the designing and implementation of solutions for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive information.
• Provide technical support and analysis in the identification, evaluation, investigation, and remediation of cyber and insider threats.
• Provide technical evaluations of Civil Division systems and assist with making security improvements.
• Participate in design of information system contingency plans that maintain appropriate levels of protection and meet time requirements for minimizing operations impact to the Civil Division.
• Performs assessment of present levels of cyber security, offer recommendations on levels of risk, training personnel in proper cyber security protocols.
• Conduct security product evaluations, and recommend products, technologies and upgrades to improve the Civil Division systems security posture.
• Conduct testing and audit log reviews to evaluate the effectiveness of current security measures.
• Participate in the management of accreditation of the Civil Division systems evaluating and certifying the implementation FISMA, the NIST security guidelines, and the Department’s plans, policies and guidelines.

What This Job Offers

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