Cybersecurity Assessment and Authorization SME

AGE Solutions is looking for a Cybersecurity Assessment and Authorization (A&A) Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide RMF/A&A support for a DoD agency. The selected individual will work with the assigned project manager, technical team members, and customers to ensure the continued authorization of a cloud hosted environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a cybersecurity SME with regards to A&A of information systems and all associated cybersecurity policies and procedures.
• Performs a DOD cybersecurity process while either authorizing an information system or serving as a SME for an information system undergoing authorization.
• Determines the applicable severity value for an identified vulnerability (e.g., non-compliant security control), and determines the possible ramifications on the system's current or future authorization.
• Briefs senior management on the progress or results of an information system undergoing the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process.

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience:
  
  
  
  • Five (5) years of RMF/A&A experience, including DoD cybersecurity experience.
  
  
  
  
• Citizenship and Clearance:
  
  
  
  • US Citizenship is required.
  • Must have and maintain a current DoD SECRET security clearance.
  
  
  
  
• Certifications:
  
  
  
  • Must have One of the following IAM III Certifications:
    
    
    
    • CISM, CISSP, or GSLC
    
    
    
    
  • Skills:
    
    
    
    • Possess an understanding of how the security controls identified in the NIST 800-53 apply to the process of assessing and authorizing a large organization's IT infrastructure, in which there is a compilation of large and small enclaves, AIS applications and outsourced IT processes.
    • Experience in assessing security controls and conducting authorization reviews for large, complex organizations.
    • Experienced in the general tenets supporting the overall DOD implementation of its authorization process, to include supporting cybersecurity policy, procedures, and processes.
    • Knowledgeable in the cybersecurity of emerging technology areas such as Cloud and Industrial Control Systems (ICSs), warehouse execution systems and Operational Technology (OT) infrastructures.
    
    
    
    
  • Location:
    
    
    
    • This is a remote role within the United States requiring occasional travel (approximately 10%)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) experience.
• Experience providing RMF/A&A support for a cloud environment.

Work Environment and Physical Demand:

• Must be able to sit for long periods of time.
• Must be able to lift 25 pounds.

Compensation: $135,000 - $160,000