Principal Cybersecurity Analyst

Overview

The Squires Group is seeking an experienced Principal Cybersecurity Analyst with SSB experience to support a critical federal program focused on providing leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative, effective, and secure business processes. In this role you will support the Security Standards & Baselines team by streamlining processes, promoting cybersecurity awareness, guiding technical solutions, and ensuring security best practices across IT services and stakeholders.

Work will be performed ONSITE in Arlington, VA. Per our client contract, candidates must be U.S. Citizen, possessing a Secret clearance with eligibility to obtain a final Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Security Standards & Baselines (SSB) section within the Technology, Innovation, and Engineering (TIE) Office.
  
• Identify opportunities to enhance, streamline, and automate existing processes and workflows.
  
• Leverage strong technical expertise across various cybersecurity domains.
  
• Promote security awareness among management to ensure organizational visions and goals reflect sound security principles.
  
• Effectively communicate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
  
• Apply strong problem-solving and decision-making skills to guide the organization in making informed security decisions.
  
• Conduct extensive research on security threat vectors and document findings comprehensively.
  
• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to team members.
  
• Develop and distribute bulletins, alerts, and advisories related to published or developmental standards and security principle documents.
  
• Ensure rigorous application of information security and assurance policies, principles, and practices in all IT service deliveries.
  
• Evaluate a wide range of existing, new, modified, and emerging technologies to develop recommended security configuration baseline documents aligned with Departmental policy, technical security solutions, and industry best practices, in accordance with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) wherever applicable.
  
• Respond to technical and policy-related questions from a broad customer base, providing guidance and clarifications as needed.
  
• Promote awareness of cybersecurity standards and principles among customers, stakeholders, coworkers, and Department users.
  
• Collaborate with team members and internal and external stakeholders to share information, knowledge, and maintain productive lines of communication.
  
• Streamline processes to enhance efficiency in achieving mission goals.
  
• Manage information, documents, and updates within SharePoint repositories.
  
• Maintain awareness of team activities to provide backup support and coverage when required.
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 9 years' of relevant experience. Or, a Master's degree with a minimum of 7 years, or PHD and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
• Possess at least one of the following certifications or be able to obtain before start date:
• CASP+ CE, CCNA, Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CCNP Security, CEH, CFR, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), Cloud+, CySA+, GCED, GCIA, GCIH, GICSP OR SCYBER.
• Experience developing and executing research plans.
• Experience working with Windows Server on an enterprise level.
• Experience managing Active Directory in a multi-domain environment.
• Experience working with server/application virtualization on an enterprise.
• Great business acumen, team orientated and strong customer service skills.
• Must have an active Secret security clearance.
• Must have the ability to obtain Top Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with process automation highly desired
• Technical writing skills.
• Engineering/maintaining database infrastructure including SQL and Oracle.
• Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Azure, Active Directory.
• Developing and managing virtualized IT systems.
• Networking technologies.
• Configuration and/or administrating enterprise mobile device deployments.
• Experience working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers on an enterprise level.

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