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Description

Are you skilled at helping customers to address their program requirements? Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS LLC), is currently seeking an Information Systems Security Manager (ISSM) to help develop, design, and implement a strategy to scale and manage the KGS security program that is compliant with the National Industrial Security Program (NISP) in Arlington, VA. We are looking for an enthusiastic person with deep customer focus that can scale our program to meet the demands of multiple customers.

This position will also entail basic understanding of managing/dealing with multiple mission partners and COMSEC accounts found around the United States.

It will require continuous engagement with mission partners and vendors as we continue to scale the program to meet customer needs and requirements.

Key job responsibilities

• Ensure policies/procedures and relevant legal and regulatory requirements are established/maintained in compliance with customer requirements, that users are correctly following proper security procedures, and that all classified information systems are properly secured.

• Develop media sanitization (clearing, purging, or destroying) and reuse procedures.

• Develop and document processes, procedures, and guidelines for complying with protection requirements (e.g., e-mail labels, media labels, etc.), control procedures (e.g., discretionary access control, need-to-know sharing, etc.), incident management reporting, remote access requirements, system management and use of encryption.

• Configure, update, and monitor classified networks infrastructure devices consisting of routers, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention components, and switches.

• Use tools authorized by customers to test/secure the system, i.e. vulnerability scanner, Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliance checker, and antivirus.

• Perform system administration functions for modern operating systems and applications, installing and configuring operating systems, installing patches and updates, adjusting security controls to meet federal requirements, monitoring operation, and creating and managing system back-ups.

Security Clearance : This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Information Security strongly preferred, and:

• 5 years of progressively responsible experience in a defense contractor classified information system security program.

• In depth experience with government security databases such as eMASS.

• DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level III, or IAM or IASAE (any level) certification.

• Successful completion of training modules/courses of direct relevance (i.e. training for Information System Security Manager and related modules).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NIST 800-53 standards.

• Experience working in Special Access Programs (SAP)

• Able to work in a diverse team.

• Working knowledge of Intelligence Community Directives (ICD's) - to include ICD 704, 705 and 503.

• CISSP Certification

• KMI Certification

• Experience with PKI

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