AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.
Responsibilities- Provides technical and programmatic Information Assurance Services to internal and external customers in support of network and information security systems.
- Designs, develops and implements security requirements within an organization’s business processes.
- Prepares documentation from information obtained from customer using accepted guidelines such as DITSCAP (DoD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process).
- Prepares Security Test and Evaluation plans.
- Provides certification and accreditation support in the development of security and contingency plans and conducts complex risk and vulnerability assessments.
- Analyzes policies and procedures against Federal laws and regulations and provides recommendations for closing gaps.
- Develops and completes system security plans and contingency plans.
- Recommends system enhancements to improve security deficiencies.
- Develops, tests and integrates computer and network security tools.
- Secures system configurations and installs security tools, scans systems to determine compliancy and report results and evaluates products and various aspects of system administration.
- Conducts security program audits and develops solutions to lessen identified risks.
- Develops strategies to comply with privacy, risk management, and e-authentication requirements.
- Provides information assurance support for the development and implementation of security architectures to meet new and evolving security requirements.
- Evaluates, develops and enhances security requirements, policy and tools.
- Aids in computer incident investigations.
- Performs vulnerability assessments including development of risk mitigation strategies.
- Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security or a related field
- 1 - 2 years of related work experience
- Ability to obtain a Secret level clearance
- U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security or a related field
- 1–2 years of related work experience
- Ability to obtain a Secret-level security clearance
- U.S. citizenship for obtaining or holding a U.S. security clearance
What We Do
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned government services contractor that delivers professional, technical, information technology, engineering, analysis, testing, evaluation, and training solutions for complex national-priority programs. Based in McLean, Virginia, the company supports federal customers—particularly defense and other Department of Defense missions—with mission-essential and information engineering, digital engineering, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, data, and lifecycle IT services across critical public-sector environments.
