Security Control Assessor

Key Responsibilities:

A Security Control Assessor (SCA) with LinQuest will be responsible for conducting a comprehensive assessment of the management, operational, and technical security controls employed within or inherited throughout the cybersecurity lifecycle for Information System (IS) services to determine the overall effectiveness of the controls. You will provide an assessment of the severity of weaknesses or deficiencies discovered in the IS and its environment of operation and recommend corrective actions to address identified vulnerabilities. Responsibilities will cover Collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Program (SAP) activities within the customer's area of responsibility.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years' of related technical implementation experience.
• Experience with security assessments for information systems and cloud environments.
• Experience ensuring compliance with security policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver engineering solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to perform oversight of the development, implementation, evaluation and integration of SAP network infrastructures, information systems and cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to perform risk assessments of SAP and SCI networks and cloud environment that utilizes a Cross Domain Solution for the transfer of sensitive data.
• A successful candidate should be a self-starter who possesses initiative, excellent communication skills, the ability to lead diverse teams, to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, and a proven problem solver. *

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to work well independently or as a team member.
• Demonstrated ability to drive projects to closure and to assimilate and correlate project information in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage simultaneous projects in a dynamic, agile work environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to clearly translate technical needs into technical specifications
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical project teams.
• Experience with: Special Access Programs, software engineering, system administration, system security engineering, JSIG, NIST 800-53, ICD 503, RMF
• CISSP

Compensation:

• The salary for this position ranges from approximately $170,000 to $190,000 depending on relevant experience and qualifications.

Why LinQuest?

LinQuest Corporation has a stellar 40-year track record of providing end-to-end system-of-systems (SoS) architecture definition, engineering design, integration and test, and operations expertise to enable full lifecycle development and deployment of pre-eminent Space, Air, Land, Sea, Ground, and Cyberspace game-changing capabilities across US DOD and IC Customers' portfolios. Unique combination of in-depth domain knowledge, lessons learned-honed best practices, and mission-specific applications of principles, tools, and techniques of Digital Engineering (DE), DE Ecosystem (DEE), and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) set LinQuest apart from the competition to consistently deliver stellar high-value results for our customers. LinQuest's corporate vision and values place the employee at the center of utmost customer satisfaction, strategic business growth, and tactical execution excellence. Our employees' creative and inspirational drive, sense of fulfillment of personal and professional growth, and tightknit camaraderie within and across lines of business are essential in gaining and maintaining exceptional LinQuest corporate-wide results of new business awards and renewed contracts.