SITEC - COMSEC Custodian - Okinawa, Japan

Peraton; Pacific (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a experienced COMSEC Custodian to support SITEC-3 Enterprise Operations and Maintenance at Camp Foster, Okinawa. The role requires handling COMSEC materials, maintaining records, and ensuring compliance with STIGs and CTOs while coordinating with Government personnel to sustain continuous operations for USSOCOM networks.

Responsibilities include establishing maintenance programs, ensuring proper key management, and providing training and oversight to site personnel on COMSEC

Qualifications

• HS + 12 years of experience OR AS with 10 years of experience OR BS + 8 years of experience OR MS + 6 years of experience OR PHD with 3 years of experience.
• TS/SCI Clearance
• Must be DoW 8140 compliant under the Work Role Code 723 – COMSEC Manager - Intermediate level or higher
• Previous hands-on experience working with COMSEC.
• Candidate must have full understanding of CMS-1, policies, and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage a comprehensive network infrastructure maintenance program for networks, systems, and services.
• Develop processes for testing and validating the operational status of network infrastructure.
• Maintain configuration baseline and policy management of devices.
• Maintain device configurations in accordance with STIGs and CTOs.
• Document lessons learned for policies and procedures in the system/network environment.
• Provide COMSEC oversight and assist Government COMSEC Custodian in continuity of operations.
• Assist with shipping cryptographic products and key material as required.

Skills

TS/SCI Clearance

COMSEC experience

CMS-1 knowledge

Policy understanding

Tools

DIAS

STIGs

CTOs

KIK-20

KIK-30

AN/CYZ-10

GEM-X

HAIPE Manager

OTAT

Remedy

Job description

Required Qualifications:

• HS + 12 years of experience OR AS with 10 years of experience OR BS + 8 years of experience OR MS + 6 years of experience OR PHD with 3 years of experience.
• TS/SCI Clearance
• Must be DoW 8140 compliant under the Work Role Code 723 – COMSEC Manager - Intermediate level or higher
• Previous hands-on experience working with COMSEC.
• Candidate must have full understanding of CMS-1, policies, and procedures.

Peraton requires COMSEC Custodians to support the Special Operation Command Information Technology Enterprise Contract (SITEC) – 3. This position is located at Camp Foster, Okinawa.

The purpose of the Special Operations Forces Information Technology Enterprise Contract(SITEC) 3 Enterprise Operations and Maintenance (EOM) Task Order (TO) is to provideUSSOCOM, its Component Commands, its Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOCs),and its deployed forces with Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services to maintain NetworkOperations (NetOps); maintain systems and network infrastructure; provide end user andcommon device support; provide configuration, change, license, and asset management; conducttraining, and perform Install, Move, Add, Change (IMACs) services. The responsibilities and tasks associated with each requirement play a pivotal role to USSOCOM, the CIO/J6 organization, and ultimately the end-user who operate around the globe 24x7x365.

The COMSEC Custodian must have solid technical skills and experience for the receipt, custody, issue, safeguarding, accounting for, and, when necessary, the destruction of COMSEC material. The Custodian is responsible for the maintenance of up-to-date records and the submission of required accounting reports. This position will serve as an alternate COMSEC Custodian assisting the Government COMSEC Custodian and providing continuity of operations in the Government COMSEC Custodian absence. The COMSEC Custodian shall provide a full spectrum of network infrastructure management services including implementation, technology integration, guidance for both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, and assisting the Government to develop and document network infrastructure policies and procedures.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Establishing and managing a comprehensive network infrastructure maintenance program for networks, systems, and services
• Developing processes and checklists for testing andvalidatingthe operational status of network infrastructure systems and services provided to USSOCOM
• Developing and documenting an approved network infrastructure baseline andassistwithmaintainingconfiguration control and policy management of devices
• Maintaining device configurations (including software)in accordance withcybersecurity Security Technical Information Guides (STIGs) and Communications Tasking Orders (CTOs)
• Developing and documenting lessons learned during troubleshooting that cover best practices, policies, and procedures on the systems/network environment related to this task
• Performing trend analysis using historical data collected from the operational network toidentifyoperational problems and areas for Utilizing these trend analyses to recommend network changes and improvements to the Government leads
• Managing network IP (i.e., IPv4 and IPv6) and address space, including unicast and local multicast address assignments for supported networks
• Providing appropriately cleared personnel to act as a COMSEC Responsible Officer to perform the following activities:
  • Add and remove COMSEC
  • Manage COMSEC key
  • Destroy COMSEC
  • Manage COMSEC Digital Management Devices (DMDs)
  • Control physical access
• Supports the receipt, custody, issue, safeguarding, accounting for, and, when necessary, the destruction or COMSEC material
• Assistswith shipping cryptographic products and key material weighing up to 50 pounds
• Using the Distributed Information Security (INFOSEC) Accounting System (DIAS)
• Performing Field Tamper Recovery (FTR), upgrading cryptographic device firmware, and ensuring the interoperability of firmware versions between enterprise encryptors
• Knowledge of the General Dynamics TACLANE line of In-Line Network Encryptors (INE), to include the KG-175A, KG-175D and KG-175G
• Supporting the installation, deployment, use, and management of the General Dynamics GEM-X
• Supporting the High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) Manager
• Planning and execution of Out-Of-Band-Key Transfer (OOBKT) for remote rekey of enterprise encryptors on multiple networks using GEM-X HAIPE Manager. Requires experience inSuite-AandSuite-Bnetwork environments,architectureand key material requirements
• Reading and interpreting complex network drawings and documentation as they relate to cryptographic requirements
• Performing hands-on installation, maintenance, configuration and troubleshooting of
• COMSEC equipment, asrequired
• Programming andoperatingapproved key fill devices, including KIK-20 and KIK-30 and AN/CYZ-10
• Performing Over-The-Air-Transfer (OTAT) of key material to remote sites using the
• Utilizing General DynamicsSecteravIPerand the L-3 Secure Terminal Equipment (STE)
• Providing training and COMSEC oversight to local and remote site personnel for the KG- 175A, KG-175D, KG-175G, KG-245X,SecteravIPer,SecteraGSM,SecteraWireline Terminal, STE, DTD, SDS (KIK-20) and RASKL (KIK-30)
• Providing incident response using multiple software applications, including Remedy.
• Some positions may require shift work and/or an ability to work a non-standard work schedule to support the USSOCOM mission