Intermediate Information Assurance (IA) Analyst

Description:

Position: Intermediate Information Assurance (IA) Analyst

Location: Peterson Space Force Base (PSFB), CO- Onsite Work

Duration: Full-time with benefits

Client: U.S. Space Force

Security Clearance: Active DOD Secret

Certification: Any IAT Level II

Responsibilities:

• Under general technical supervision, performs network monitoring, analysis and reporting in accordance with the provisions of DoD Directive 8570.01-M.
• These skills and their associated duties may include the following: Intrusion: Examines potential security violations, incidents, malicious activity and attacks to determine if policy has been breached, assesses the impact, and preserves artifacts.
• Enters and tracks events and incidents.
• Supports incident escalation and assesses probable damages, identifies damage control and remediation, and assists in developing courses of action. Supervises the installation, monitoring, testing, troubleshooting, and administration of IA hardware and software systems.
• Recommends, schedules, and performs IA system repairs, systems administration, and maintenance.
• Analyzes patterns of non compliance or attacks and recommends appropriate actions to minimize security risks and insider threat.

Requirements:

• Configures, optimizes, and tests network devices.
• Diagnoses and resolves IA problems in response to reported incidents.
• Enhances rule sets to identify or block sources or potential sources of malicious traffic.
• Supports the design and execution of exercise scenarios. Specialist: Implements, and monitors policies and procedures reflecting the legislative intent of applicable laws and regulations.
• Prepares, distributes, and maintains plans, instructions, guidance, and standard operational procedures concerning Information Security.
• Participates in IA risk assessments during the C&A process.
• Prepares, reviews, and evaluates documentation of compliance.
• Prepares recommendations for the DAA.
• Reviews IA and IA enabled software, hardware, and firmware for compliance with appropriate security configuration guidelines, policies, and procedures.
• Reviews AI security plans.
• Identifies alternative functional IA security strategies to address organizational security concerns.
• Reviews security safeguards to determine that security concerns identified in approved policies, plans, and doctrine have been fully addressed.
• Develops and implements programs to ensure that systems, network, and data users are aware of, understand, and follow IA policies and procedures.

CompQsoft provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and in the working environment to all employees and applicants. CompQsoft does not take any non-merit factors like race, color, religion, sex (gender), mental/physical disability, and age into account for purposes of recruitment, hiring and development