Cybersecurity Risk Specialist, Mid

Cybersecurity Risk Specialist, Mid

The Opportunity: 

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your experience in cybersecurity and security engineering that will safeguard our nation? As a systems security and network security engineer, you can identify the tools, applications, and systems needed to assess vulnerabilities and recommend the best solution and security strategy. We need your experience to develop and implement security solutions that will protect our military.

On our team, you’ll troubleshoot and analyze complex challenges for customers using your knowledge of cybersecurity testing and risk management. You’ll use your curiosity for technology and market trends to further research and develop security solutions. Using your experience in ACAS, STIGs, and scanning, you’ll help assess security threats and implement infrastructure controls.

In this role, you’ll closely impact Navy missions by championing cybersecurity, discovering cyber risks, and providing hands-on support to critical mission areas. With mentoring, challenging hands-on problem-solving, and opportunities to learn new tools and skills, we focus on growing as a team to make the best solutions for our customers.

Work with us as we secure and protect our military’s cybersecurity posture for the better.

What You’ll Work On:

• Develop relationships quickly and easily with other teams, communicating the complexities of security with a wide variety of audiences, including senior management.

• Implement infrastructure and cybersecurity controls, including enhanced detection and vulnerability capabilities and improved event correlation in large enterprises. 

• Perform risk and vulnerability assessments in network, system, and application areas.

• Leverage big data analytics and traditional security event types to identify advanced threats or indicators of compromise.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:   

• 3+ years of experience with Assessment and Authorization (A&A) and hands-on implementation and execution of all steps of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process

• 3+ years of experience with hands-on cybersecurity compliance testing using industry standard tools, including Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) and DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), SCAP, scan analysis, IP networking, and communications

• 3+ years of experience supporting the engineering of Information Technology (IT) systems for a DoD or government agency

• Experience developing RMF artifacts

• Experience with cybersecurity constructs and vulnerability analysis to determine applicability, risk, impact, mitigations, and remediations, and supporting DoD afloat network systems, enterprise services, and wide area networks

• Ability to interact directly with clients to identify problems, analyze data, generate solutions, and communicate results

• Secret clearance

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physical Science

• DoD 8140 Certification

Nice If You Have:   

• Experience as a Navy Qualified Validator

• Experience with Navy networks and enterprise systems, both ashore and afloat

• Top Secret clearance

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physical Science

• Linux OS Certification

Clearance: 

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

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