Vulnerability Assessment (VA) Team Lead

Responsibilities And Qualifications

Assist the government in managing enterprise information system vulnerability management (ISVM) compliance validation; briefing leadership on current and future vulnerabilities, security policies and industry standards; briefing leadership on most impactful vulnerabilities, configurations, and penetration testing efforts; creating and managing all scans in accordance with the scan standardization documentation; performing regularly scheduled (monthly and ad hoc) vulnerability assessments using a master schedule as directed; managing, customizing, and maintaining scan policies, zones, and repositories as they relate to the network; performing scan functions and review scan results to ensure accurate findings; and creating and customizing scan reports and data feeds to be imported / integrated into third party assessment tools. Assist the government in employing ad hoc or emergency VA scanning to support targeted incident investigation, escalation, and emergency response to security events in accordance with documented procedures. Assist the government in performing penetration testing support.

Skills

• Analyzing vulnerabilities and providing assessments and remediation instructions
• Knowledgeable to maintain a repository of VA application issues and report application issues to government VAT team lead and SSD director in applying information systems security principles and methods
• Experience with application security implementation
• Understanding of firewall management and advanced threat protection
• Familiarity with access control, authorization, intrusion prevention and intrusion detection
• Familiar with protocol analysis and requirements when handling sensitive and classified information
• Familiar with FISMA compliance and risk management framework
• Support cyber briefs for all vulnerability assessment team activities.
• Assist the government in providing vulnerability assessment, compliance, and reporting support to ISSO / ISSM interpreting scan results and recommend remediation plans.
• Experience with cloud-based security technologies, architecture, and computing and searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data is preferred.

Required qualifications

• Clearance requirement: Secret
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years' experience performing vulnerability assessments for an enterprise network
• Education: Bachelor's of science in computer engineering, computer science, IT or cyber security preferred (or 5 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree)
• Certifications: one of the following certifications: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Overview

We are seeking an experienced vulnerability assessment (VA) team lead in support of a government customer to join our team to provide security operations support (SOC) services to a government agency whose mission is to protect our nation's borders from terrorist attacks, to provide law enforcement for over forty (40) federal agencies, and to protect the revenue of the United States while facilitating trade. The SOC is a single point of management and reporting for information security incidents. The SOC exists to prevent, identify, contain, and eradicate cyber threats to networks through monitoring, intrusion detection, and protective security services to information systems, including local area networks / wide area networks (LAN / WAN), commercial internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile / cellular, cloud, security devices, servers, and workstations. The SOC is responsible for the overall security of enterprise-wide information systems and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.

TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. "Technology moving at the speed of thought" embodies these principles the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our federal government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

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Additional Job Information

Work environment and physical demands

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Location: Ashburn, Virginia
• Remote or in-person: 100% on site. Remote/telework not available.
• Type of environment: Office
• Noise level: Medium
• Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday Friday.
• Amount of travel: Some travel may be required

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work authorization/security clearance

Top secret (SCI eligible)

Other information

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

TekSynap is a drug-free workplace. We reserve the right to conduct drug testing in accordance with federal, state, and local laws. All employees and candidates may be subject to drug screening if deemed necessary to ensure a safe and compliant working environment.

Equal employment opportunity

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. TekSynap does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status"). This nondiscrimination policy extends to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment as well as the use of all company facilities, participation in all company-sponsored activities, and all employment actions such as promotions, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.