ACAS Systems Administrator

ACAS Systems Administrator

The Leidos Digital Modernization group has a career opportunity for an ACAS Systems Administrator.

The ACAS (Assured Compliance Assessment Solution) position involves managing and maintaining the ACAS system, which is a vulnerability assessment and security auditing tool used by many organizations, particularly within the Department of Defense. Their role involves ensuring the system is functioning optimally, analyzing scan results, and collaborating with other teams to remediate identified vulnerabilities.

Position Responsibilities :

• Information risk mitigation through the proper security, monitoring, sustainment, and operation of Security Center servers and logs in NIPRNet, SIPRNet, both physical and virtual, using the full capabilities of the ACAS system.
• Identify vulnerabilities, secure, sustain, monitor, and operate ACAS Scanner servers located within the CONUS theater.
• Maintain ACAS Agents, conduct ACAS Agent scans and differential scans in accordance with DISA best practices.
• Work with subscriber sites to prepare for the Cyber Operational Readiness Assessment (CORA) process.
• Maintains integrity of the operating system environment, as relating to SecurityCenters and Nessus scanners.
• Reporting Compliance data to higher command in response to CTO's and Taskings.
• Maintain effective communications with IT administration teams for Cloud and on premise server support.
• Associating Nessus scanners to the appropriate scan zones and repositories.
• Provide Multi-Tiered ACAS administrator support.
• Troubleshoot application errors, operating system(s), server hardware, network communications and storage allocation issues within the ACAS environment.
• Utilize diagnostic tools and logs to trace and resolve technical problems.
• Utilize the Atlassian Suite to track and resolve problems impacting continued system operations and make recommendations for any corrective actions required.
• Review system logs to determine scanning issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Continuously assess current ACAS implementations for scans, assets, analysis and permissions.
• Assist in the installation / maintenance of configuration files, custom scan policies, plug-ins, certificates, DISA STIGs and checklist configuration audits and other such files necessary to add vulnerability discovery capabilities into the ACAS system.
• Plan, coordinate, and document the use of revised / updated procedures, processes, and best practice methods for the operations and maintenance of the ACAS infrastructure and the scanning of customer environments.

Basic Qualifications :