Information Assurance/Security Engineer

Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for an Information Assurance/Security Engineer and will be supporting the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) customer through the Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence (PACE) program. PRAC was established to promote transparency and conduct and support oversight of over $5 trillion of pandemic relief funds to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement and mitigate major risks that cut across program and agency boundaries.

 

The Information Assurance/Security Engineer will work with a team to fulfill the IT objectives of this task order by building off of the existing technology architecture in PRAC’s secure Azure Moderate FedRAMP hosted environment. The high level project objectives include implementing new Analytics tools, developing analytic rules and models to identify fraud, waste, and abuse, and providing investigative support. This role will be expected to have experience with compliance and policy writing as well as security vetting and requirements gathering.  

 

What you'll do:

• Develop, execute, and track the performance of security measures to protect information and network infrastructure and computer systems.
• Update existing System Security Plan (SSP)
• Update existing NIST 800-53 v4 control family mapping to NIST 800-53 v5
• Create and manage Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models
• Ensure that plans of actions and milestones or remediation plans are in place for vulnerabilities identified during risk assessments, audits, inspections, etc.
• Ensure that security improvement actions are evaluated, validated, and implemented as required.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and 8-10 years of experience or Masters degree and 6-8 years of relevant experience. In lieu of degree, High School and a total of 12 years of relevant experience will be considered.
• Experience writing System Security Plans (SSPs) and mapping compliance control families.
• Skill in assessing security and privacy controls based on cybersecurity and privacy related principles and tenets. (e.g., CIS CSC, NIST 800-171 or 53, Cybersecurity Framework, etc.).
• The security engineer must demonstrate experience applying business requirements, regulatory requirements, and compliance controls into a cloud infrastructure.
• Skill in technical writing and communications to various stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• A Microsoft Security Engineer certification is preferred but not required (e.g., Azure Security Engineer Associate, Security Operations Analyst Associate, Identity and Access Administrator Associate, or Information Protection Administrator Associate)
• Design, Deploy and Maintain Identity and Access Management.
• Design and Implementation of Data protections. (Knowledge of encryption, key management and how they trickle down to performance etc.)
• Working with Security Operations Center in continuous prevention and mitigation
• Working with Solution Engineer in continuous development life cycle for the secure build and delivery of applications and platforms
• US Citizenship

Benefits: 

 

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We’re fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way. 

Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO

An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.

Salary : $112,000 - $179,000