Baseline Security Specialist
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Job Description Baseline Security Specialist California - United States Posted - 05 / 11 / 23 Overview
Title : Baseline Security Specialist
Position Type : Contract
Location : Remote, United States
Required Education Level : Bachelors
Required Degree : Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent
Required Experience : 10 years
Substitution Criteria : 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
The Baseline Security Specialist collaborates with stakeholders to develop Enterprise security control baselines in alignment with security strategy and agency policy.
Successful candidate maintains an awareness of market and technology trends to bring best of breed solutions to the client.
Applies industry-standard principles, theories, and concepts. Instrumental in the development and administration of development workflow processes.
This position is open to remote delivery anywhere within the U.S., to include the District of Columbia.
Basic Qualifications :
- Experience interpreting and applying DISA STIGs, SRGs, CIS Benchmarks, and awareness of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE)
- Experience with developing, customizing, and reviewing for updates a wide range of enterprise security configuration baselines, with input from subject matter experts.
- Ability to translate the low-level security baseline requirements into high-level FISMA and NIST requirements and client-specific security baselines.
- Ability to apply a general technical skill set to research and document industry knowledge and best practices with established or newly released applicable security controls
- Ability to work independently able to anticipate VA baseline needs and willingness to act with minimal supervision
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability / Fitness determination based on client requirements
- Bachelors degree in IT, CS, engineering, or technical discipline is required and 10 years of experience or a total of 18 years of IT experience in lieu of education
Additional Qualifications :
- Experience in working with the NIST Special Publication series guidance for risk management and security control implementation, including -53 and others.
- Experience with one or more of the following technologies : Networking, including CISCO, Juniper, or Palo Alto; operating systems, including Windows Server, RedHat, or Linux;
cloud services, including AWS and Azure.
- Experience with technical writing, including compliance requirements and document lifecycle management (intake, development, approval coordination, publication, archive, etc.).
- Experience with basic SharePoint administration (editing pages, granting permissions, etc.) and document management
- Experience with an Agile release methodology
- Knowledge of ServiceNow and LEAF
- Public Trust clearance
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