Senior Information System Security Officer

Base-2 Solutions, LLC; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Senior Information Systems Security Officer responsible for safeguarding computer networks and systems to the highest standards, ensuring data security, integrity, and confidentiality.

The role emphasizes implementing IA, conducting risk management, and guiding C&A activities across complex enclave environments. The candidate will collaborate with engineers, architects, and security teams to maintain ATO and address evolving threats.

Qualifications

• Experience performing security assessments and enabling C&A activities.
• Experience implementing and validating IA controls and STIG/ACAS processes.
• Experience coordinating with PAT, ISSMs, and SCA on security inquiries and risk decisions.
• Experience collaborating with architects, sysadmins, DBAs, developers, and testers to maintain ATO.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements and integrates IA/security systems for multi-enclave environments.
• Performs system security assessments to identify vulnerabilities and mitigation options.
• Supports C&A activities and ensures compliance with risk management framework.
• Loads artifacts such as STIG checklists and ACAS scans and mitigates findings.
• Assists in enforcing trusted relationships among external systems and architectures.

Skills

Security assessment

IA/IA controls

Risk Management

Vulnerability remediation

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 14 years

Master’s degree + 12 years

PhD + 10 years

Tools

Xacta

Job description

Position Summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Senior Information Systems Security Officer responsible for safeguarding computer networks and systems to the highest standards, ensuring data security, integrity, and confidentiality.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, implements and/or integrates IA and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, and enclave environments with multiple enclaves and differing data protection/classification requirements.
• Analyzes architecture and system functionality for multiple technologies.
• Contributes to the development and evaluation of attack scenarios.
• Prepares and delivers technical reports and briefings.
• Has a complete understanding of Risk Management Framework and implements the process on program systems/networks.
• Performs or reviews technical security assessments of computing environments to identify vulnerabilities, non-compliance with IA standards and regulations, and recommends mitigation strategies.
• Validates and verifies system security requirements definitions and analysis and establishes system security designs.
• Assists architects and systems developers in identifying and implementing appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application security policy and enterprise solutions.
• Supports building security architectures and enforces trusted relations among external systems and architectures.
• Assesses and mitigates system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Contributes to security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification, and awareness activities for system and networking operations.
• Reviews certification and accreditation (C&A) documentation, providing feedback on completeness and compliance.
• Performs system installation, configuration, maintenance, account maintenance, signature maintenance, patch management, and troubleshooting of operational IA and CND systems.
• Performs limited penetration testing and routine exploit analysis.
• Performs system or network designs encompassing multiple enclaves with differing data protection/classification requirements.
• Recommends system-level solutions to resolve security requirements.
• Supports enforcement of design and implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures.
• Works with application leads, sysadmins, DBAs, developers, and testers to ensure assigned systems are security compliant and achieve/maintain ATO.
• Loads artifacts such as STIG checklists and ACAS scans.
• Helps implement STIG checklists and mitigate scan findings.
• Supports security assessment events and responds to questions from PAT team, ISSMs, and SCA.

Required Qualifications

• Experience loading artifacts such as STIG checklists and ACAS scans.
• Experience helping to implement STIG checklists and mitigate scan findings.
• Experience supporting security assessment events and responding to questions from PAT team, ISSMs, and SCA.
• Experience working with application leads, sysadmins, DBAs, developers, and testers to ensure systems are security compliant and achieve/maintain ATO.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Xacta.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

• Bachelor’s degree with 14 years of experience.
• Master’s degree with 12 years of experience.
• PhD with 10 years of experience.

Required Certifications

• None specified.

Required Security Clearance

• Active Top Secret/SCI with CI Polygraph