Job Posting Title: ESS Technical Lead/Manager

Worksite Location: Remote

Clearance: Top Secret\ Tier 5(T5)-Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI)

Start Date: Contingent upon contract award

Alliant Information Technologies, LLC (AIT), a wholly owned subsidiary of IndraSoft, Inc., highly qualified Senior to SME level Security Engineer with an active Top Secret clearance to support our DoD client, located in Seaside, CA. The selected, highly motivated candidate will implement, configure, manage, maintain and monitor ESS solutions for a geographically dispersed, high-availability enterprise. The successful candidate will leverage demonstrated experience in ESS product suite of tools, coupled with proven subject matter expertise in ESS, to support DoD cybersecurity requirements and objectives.

Qualifications Required:

• Must be a US citizen, possess a DoD Top Secret clearance: Minimum vetting Tier 5(T5)-Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI)

• Active DoD 8570 IAT Level 3 certification for compliance, including at least one of the following certifications in good standing: CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH

• Computing Environment Certification

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of Information Technology or Cybersecurity related experience

• 5+ years of experience administration and operations of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Endpoint Security(AV/Host Firewall/Host IPS/Web Control), Policy Auditor(PA), Rogue System Detection(RSD), Threat Intelligence Exchange(TIE), and Data Exchange Layer(DXL) products and modules

• Ability to communicate effectively with government and contract leadership, while conveying highly technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Capacity to thrive in a complex, fast paced environment with competing demands while delivering consistent, high-quality commitment to mission-critical systems and solutions
• Excellent analytic skills, including qualitative and quantitative data analysis to support and defend data-driven decision-making regarding system threats, vulnerabilities, and risk
• Knowledge of DoD cybersecurity policies, practices, and requirements

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior DMDC experience
• Experience in an enterprise environment (1500 servers plus 2500 workstations)
• Experience configuring disaster recovery (DR) environments
• Experience managing HBSS in the Cloud
• HBSS ATD, SkyHigh, MAC, experience
• Background in MS SQL Server administration
• Scripting with Powershell or Python
• Knowledge of DoD requirements including STIGs and USCYBERCOM issuances

Job Description:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Technical Lead for HBSS/ESS Suite of products
• Serve as a Line Manager for staff supporting cybersecurity ESS products ranging from a staff of 1 to 5 staff members over the life of the contract
• Lead and manage the deployment, design and day to day ESS system administration and analyst functions for both DMDC & DHRA on premise and cloud infrastructures
• Promote cybersecurity standardization within DHRA, providing innovation, best practices, cost savings/efficiencies, customer service, application availability/performance, and evaluation/recommendation of new technologies for continued cybersecurity advancement.
• Take a lead role in defining and driving cybersecurity strategy and architecture services that will defend and protect the DHRA enterprise
• Manage or directly perform
  • Build and configure ESS and other cybersecurity tools according to DISA STIGs and Security Requirements Guides (SRG)
  • Work with the provisioning and implementation teams across DHA/NIWC and DHRA to implement, configure, and troubleshoot Cybersecurity tool solutions
  • Ensure system backup and restore procedures are in place and operating

• Adhere to, execute against and achieve compliance for all USCYBERCOM requirements
• Assist with RMF validations, and external audits to ensure compliance
• Ensure HBSS system availability, functionality and system configuration

• Troubleshoot any connectivity or operational issues
• Manage the creation and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Participate, as needed in SRTs
• Metrics/Reporting
  • Track, measure and evaluate HBSS compliance across the enterprise
  • Create dashboards to monitor significant events, traffic and data collection
  • Provide weekly Scanning and Monitoring reports
  • Create metrics detailing security posture
  • Create and maintain the IDS/IPS Break and Inspect topology diagram
  • Create weekly, monthly and in-progress review presentations, as needed
• Support other cybersecurity objectives as required, including but not limited to patch and vulnerability management, network monitoring, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and log analysis
• Facilitate vendor support, as needed

Physical Demands:

While performing duties of the job, the successful candidate will be exposed to normal demands of an office environment, including:

Sitting and working on a computer for long, continuous periods each day; effective communications by telephone, email, and face-to-face; standing, walking, and sitting; handling and feeling objects or controls; reaching; talking and hearing; lifting and/or moving up to 20 pounds; and specific vision abilities including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust and focus.

Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.