Information Assurance Specialist

BT-137 – Information Assurance
Skill Level: Sr. SME
Location: Bethesda (fully on-site, no remote option)
 

**MUST HAVE A POLY CLEARANCE TO APPLY. Those without a Poly clearance will not be considered.**

• Respond to congressional inquiries on Cybersecurity issues; turning cybersecurity needs and capabilities into requirements and detailed technical solutions; developing and maintaining a list of Cybersecurity Architecture needs, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans; analyzing cybersecurity best practices to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Be able to contribute meaningful input to Cybersecurity policies and influence the trajectory of Zero Trust in the IC. You will also be developing and publishing baseline security requirements for common enterprise services to ensure capabilities are in compliance with cybersecurity directives and policies, conducting critical path analysis, risk analysis, and task dependency analysis.
• Developing security requirements and constraints to provide input to foundational technical documents, including program architectural artifacts, business cases, and concept of operations.
• Documenting architectural rules for Zero Trust
• Diagram an interim and future architecture for Zero Trust implementation
• Define/communicate the Zero Trust integration expectations for all ITE services
• Creating a Zero Trust playbook

• Require MS degree and 15 – 20 years of prior relevant experience in order to operate within the scope contemplated by the level.
• Experience in cybersecurity responsibility areas listed above.
• Secure cloud architecture expertise
• Detail-oriented, ability to consistently provide high-quality products that are concise, thorough, and accurate.
• Ability to adapt in response to shifts in customer priorities.
• Expert knowledge in Identity, Authentication and Authorization.