Senior Cyber Security Specialist

Senior Cyber Security Specialist

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an Information Technology or Cyber Security field, or a combination of equivalent education and work experience/certifications
• 8+ years of classified systems experience required
• Network and/or Security certifications (CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CompTIA)
• Incident Response experience and/or ability to perform forensic analysis
• Demonstrated proficiencies with security infrastructure
• Experience implementing new security technologies
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic
• Have confidence and be able to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team
• Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions
• Be proactive in providing feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others
• Capable of prioritizing your own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met

Responsibilities

• Work independently to evaluate, implement, and document Security systems for all identified systems
• Lead efforts necessary to receive ATO (Authority to Operate) certification from various government customers
• Play a key role in documenting and applying necessary controls to identified Systems to achieve self-certification required to meet 800-171, 800-172, and 800-53 compliance
• Initiate automation, where possible, to effectively triage and address security alerts
• Serve as an escalation point for security analysts and admins on the Government Special Services team
• Actively identify areas of improvement within processes to ensure response activities align with best practices, minimize gaps in response, and provide comprehensive mitigation of threats
• Engage with Admins and Engineers across various Iridium organizations to respond to and remediate events
• Research, extraction, and dissemination of industry provided intelligence on threat actors targeting the Aerospace and Telecommunications industry
• Respond to service requests and incident tickets within established SLAs
• Maintain existing IT security elements; implement upgrades, replacements and new equipment as directed
• Foster security awareness and ensure security controls are operating effectively
• Maintain operational reports for Key Performance Indicators as well as weekly and monthly metrics
• Maintain proper Change Control and Configuration Management processes
• Maintain all monitoring systems and travel to remote sites to perform scans and gather data not accessible from the home site

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with Government customers in a classified environment
• Cloud-based Security control methodologies in both classified and CUI environments