ZeroTrust SME

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We are looking for a ZeroTrust SME to work onsite in Ashburn, VA supporting our client.

Requirements:

• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Development, Information Technology, Cyber Security, or related field and 6 years of related experience. Additional years of experience and cyber certifications may be considered in lieu of degree.
  
• Familiar with the management, operational, and technical aspects of IT Security in a complex enterprise environment. Additional experience in cyber risk management and assessments will be considered.
  
• Experience with in-depth analysis of Zero Trust Capabilities, Infrastructures and Architecture.
  
  

Desired Requirements:

• Typically requires BS degree with 12 to 15 years of prior relevant experience to operate within the scope contemplated by the level.
  
• 5 years of team and/or operational leadership experience.
  
• 5 years experience in USG cyber risk management, assessments and authorization (A&A), certification & accreditation (C&A) and using NIST Special Publications (SP) (e.g.: SP800-30, SP800-37, SP800-53, etc.)
  
• 5 years experience in designing and engineering enterprise IT solutions within the USG using NIST SP (e.g.: SP800-60, SP800-64, SP800-80, SP800-122, SP800-137, SP800-146, SP800-160, SP800-204, SP800-207, SP800-213, etc.)
  
• Current Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.
  
  

Essential Requirements: US Citizenship

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will regularly sit, walk, stand and climb stairs and steps. May require walking long distance from parking to work station. Occasionally, movement that requires twisting at the neck and/or trunk more than the average person, squatting/ stooping/kneeling, reaching above the head, and forward motion will be required. The employee will continuously be required to repeat the same hand, arm, or finger motion many times. Manual and finger dexterity are essential to this position. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, depth perception and telling differences among colors. The employee must be able to communicate through speech with clients and public. Hearing requirements include conversation in both quiet and noisy environments. Lifting may require floor to waist, waist to shoulder, or shoulder to overhead movement of up to 20 pounds. This position demands tolerance for various levels of mental stress.

Job Duties:

• Zero Trust SME will excel at building and communicating security modernization strategies that enables the organization to stay at the cutting edge of our industry.
  
• The position requires the ability to provide guidance on how to architect/design, leverage, and operate, various operational platforms, including Identity, Credential, Access Management (ICAM), Security Information and Event Management, and Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SIEM/SOAR), and Privileged Access Management solutions as well as be a catalyst to accelerate capabilities for an integrated Zero Trust future.
  
• Partnering with infrastructure stakeholders to build roadmaps and strategies to transition CBP’s networks, computing, storage, applications/services/workloads, and security services to an Enterprise Zero Trust architecture.
  
• Own the strategy and delivery of our enterprise-wide adoption of, various operational platforms as essential enablers for Zero Trust.
  
• Establish and refine customer capabilities, best practices, and adoption roadmap for Zero Trust to protect critical resources.
  
• Collaborate with infrastructure leaders to build security roadmaps for network, compute, and storage.
  
• Drive alignment to, and adoption of, industry leading technologies and standards.
  
• Collaborate with IT solution teams to integrate Zero Trust capabilities and solutions that improve agency security posture.
  
• Enable the success of application operations as new Zero Trust based security frameworks are adopted.
  
• Build talent of forward-thinking engineers who will be responsible for the full lifecycle of services from design, build, introduction, and retirement/refresh of technologies that make up our security portfolio.
  
• Bring Network/Enterprise Security Architecture skills to addressing Zero Trust capability architecture and implementation.
  
• Bring crafting/authoring policy and directive experience to integrate federal government requirements and directives into agency policies and directives.
  
• Bring governance experience toward constructing oversight bodies, and designing, testing, and implementing automated operational polices.
  
• Experience creating/crafting/designing cybersecurity and IT metrics.