The Role
Manage and enhance NICHD IT security posture: run vulnerability scanning, patching, hardening, logging/auditing, configuration management, incident response, and network defense. Support FISMA compliance, perform security assessments and annual reporting, review system security documentation, and coordinate with systems/O&M teams to maintain secure, baseline configurations and remediate vulnerabilities.
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Job Summary
JCS Solutions is seeking a highly skilled Cyber Security Manager within the IT Security division. The selected candidate will be responsible for operating, maintaining, and enhancing NICHD’s computing environments to ensure the secure and reliable delivery of IT services to end users. This role focuses on proactively identifying and mitigating threats and vulnerabilities to maintain a robust security posture.
Key areas of responsibility include:
What’s in it for you:
What you will do:
CYBERSECURITY:
What you will bring:
CYBERSECURITY:
How you will wow us:
JCS is both a Great Place to Work and a Washington Post’s Top Places to Work certified company.
Our employees embody our core values, and we are looking for others who do too!
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Job Summary
JCS Solutions is seeking a highly skilled Cyber Security Manager within the IT Security division. The selected candidate will be responsible for operating, maintaining, and enhancing NICHD’s computing environments to ensure the secure and reliable delivery of IT services to end users. This role focuses on proactively identifying and mitigating threats and vulnerabilities to maintain a robust security posture.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Cybersecurity
- FISMA Compliance Support
What’s in it for you:
- Join a premier technology firm specializing in innovative solutions.
- Be part of a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative work culture.
- Enjoy tremendous growth potential in a high-performing team environment.
- A robust benefits package:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-and-long term disability
- Paid time off (PTO)
- 401k retirement plan with employer match
- Annual Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- And more!
What you will do:
CYBERSECURITY:
- Oversee routine vulnerability scanning capabilities across networks and systems.
- Oversees patching, hardening and baselining activities across networks; ensures other stakeholders are in compliance with established patching/hardening policies.
- Maintains, configures, and ensures the successful deployment of logging/auditing tools across the networks; ensures logging activities are functional across all networks
- Maintains system baseline and configuration management items, including security event monitoring policies in a manner determined and agreed to by the program management.
- Interacts with both Systems engineers and O&M personnel to ensure a complete and functioning system that meets requirements.
- Ensures all Network Defense capabilities are kept current, patched, securely configured, and communicates status to management.
- Analyzes the data flows into, out of, and across networks to ensure security gaps do not exist and data exchange is in line with system classification level.
- Researching, analyzing, and reporting on different trends using publicly available or collected data.
- Ensuring effective implementation of annual FISMA reporting review requirements.
- Reviewing security documentation of various NICHD systems to assure FISMA Compliance is effectively implemented and monitored.
- Having the necessary organization, experience, and technical controls.
What you will bring:
CYBERSECURITY:
- Four (4) to six (6) years of hands-on experience providing technology leadership for IT Security.
- Three (3) or more years of experience of new and emerging cybersecurity technologies including but not limited to: hands-on tool usage of BigFix, Splunk, Tripwire, Cylance, Tenable etc.
- Knowledge of vulnerability information dissemination sources (e.g., alerts, advisories, errata, and bulletins).
- Experience with incident response and handling methodologies.
- Knowledge of current industry methods for evaluating, implementing, and disseminating information technology (IT) security assessment, monitoring, detection, and remediation tools and procedures utilizing standards-based concepts and capabilities.
- Four (4) to six (6) years of hands-on experience providing technology leadership for FISMA Compliance.
- Three (3) or more years of experience of new and emerging cybersecurity technologies including but not limited to: hands-on tool usage of BigFix, Splunk, Tripwire, Cylance, Tenable etc.
- Knowledge of vulnerability information dissemination sources (e.g., alerts, advisories, errata, and bulletins).
- Experience with Security Assessment and Authorization in Federal environment.
- Knowledge of current industry methods for evaluating, implementing, and disseminating information technology (IT) security assessment.
How you will wow us:
- CISSP, CISA, CISM, and/or SSCP.
- Strong skills in the following key areas including strategic thinking, multi-tasking, negotiation, conflict management, time management, planning and executing to a defined schedule/budget.
- Able to communicate complex technical concepts and project information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of an integrated team and the ability to negotiate reasonable compromises among a diverse group of stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, technically challenging area; ability to anticipate changes, problems, or activities, assess impacts and recommend sound solutions.
- Able to work independently and motivated, capable of working across teams and organizations.
- Prefer experience with data analytics and combining data sets from multiple sources to provide reports for identifying risk and measuring security posture.
- Prefer strong skills in the following key areas including strategic thinking, multi-tasking, time management, planning and executing to a defined schedule.
- Expert level of experience with Microsoft products Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio.
- Prior experience using a helpdesk ticketing system such as ServiceNow is preferred.
- Prior federal government IT Security experience is preferred.
JCS is both a Great Place to Work and a Washington Post’s Top Places to Work certified company.
Our employees embody our core values, and we are looking for others who do too!
- Customer Experience: Strive for excellence and delight our clients
- Innovation: Embrace creative thinking to enable continual growth and powerful solutions
- Accountability: Take ownership of and pride in our actions and service delivery
- Inspire: Be inspired to be your best self and have fun in the process
- Integrity: Do the right thing, the right way, every time!
- Stewardship: The careful and responsible management of something entrusted to our care.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Skills Required
- 4 to 6 years hands-on experience providing technology leadership for IT Security
- 3+ years hands-on experience with cybersecurity tools (BigFix, Splunk, Tripwire, Cylance, Tenable)
- Knowledge of vulnerability information dissemination sources (alerts, advisories, errata, bulletins)
- Experience with incident response and handling methodologies
- Knowledge of IT security assessment, monitoring, detection, and remediation methods and tools
- 4 to 6 years hands-on experience providing technology leadership for FISMA Compliance
- Experience with Security Assessment and Authorization (SA&A) in a Federal environment
- Ability to maintain, configure, and deploy logging/auditing tools and ensure functional logging across networks
- Maintain system baseline and configuration management items, including security event monitoring policies
- Strong strategic thinking, multi-tasking, negotiation, conflict management, time management, planning and execution skills
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and work effectively on integrated teams
- Expert-level experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio
- CISSP, CISA, CISM, and/or SSCP
- Experience with data analytics and combining datasets to identify risk and measure security posture
- Prior experience using a helpdesk ticketing system such as ServiceNow
- Prior federal government IT Security experience
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The Company
What We Do
JCS is a premier technology firm specializing in enterprise-wide capabilities, digital transformation, software solutions, and IT services. We hold contracts in support of federal, state, and local government organizations in addition to assisting industry leaders in the private sector. Vision: Elevate the customer, the employee, and the community Mission: Delivering superior, mission-focused technology solutions to empower our clients. Our Services: • IT Services & Solutions • Cyber Security • Advanced Data Analytics • Health IT • Professional Services • Digital Transformation • Partner Network and Technology Certifications JCS is an 8(a) Certified Small Business, Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB), Minority-Owned Small Business (MOSB), and Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) based out of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. JCS is ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 20000-1: 2018, ISO/IEC 27000: 2013 certified and appraised at CMMI Level 3 for both Development and Services. JCS is a Microsoft Gold and ServiceNow Premium partner. We are also certified as a “Great Place to Work.”
