Assessment and Authorization Specialist

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities.

Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise.

We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.

This position is available immediately .

Job Overview :

• The Customer is seeking a hands-on security professional to provide Assessment and Authorization (A&A) support to multiple complex programs.  The organization is growing in scope and complexity and requires significant support managing current and future programs This position will : Advise and assist customers with the Lifecycle Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process.
• Advise and assist customers with development of System Security Plans.
• Use COTS / GOTS and custom tools and process and procedures in order to scan, identify, contain, mitigate and remediate vulnerabilities, and intrusions.
• Monitor, track, and update status of systems in the assessment queue.
• Coordinate technical security assessments of computing environments and systems to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Assist architects, developers, and engineers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security controls and potential security functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.
• Create and review A&A Body of Evidence (BOE) documentation, providing succinct assessment on compliance of its content for Customer’s use for A&A adjudication.
• Validate and verify system security requirements definitions and analysis and establishes system security design for controls.
• Design, develop, implement, or integrate IA and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, virtualization, cloud, and enclave environments to include those with multiple enclaves and with differing data protection requirements.

Contractor shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience :

Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include :

Demonstrated experience with Customer’s security scanning requirements and documentation best practices.   Certifications :

Security Clearance :

Clearance Verification :

Travel :

Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including :

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