CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECT

Overview

On Site
$140,000 - $150,000
Full Time

Skills

AZURE
RHEL
RMF
CYBERSECURITY
IAM

Job Details

Title: Cyber Security Architect

Location: Stafford, VA/ Quantico, VA

Status: Full Time Position

Clearance: Top Secret

Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations.

YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.

YSI offers a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training and professional development assistance.

Job Responsibilities/Required Skills:

  • Responsible for the overall maintenance of the government's information technology security systems and protocols.
  • Design and implement security measures for hardware, software, and network platforms to ensure protection from cyber-attacks and any other possible harmful intrusions that could compromise or damage the government's data and network infrastructure.
  • Assess existing cybersecurity systems and protocols and design and implement upgrades to existing measures and implement new procedures.
  • Provides timely detection, identification, and alerting possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from begin activities.
  • Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity.
  • Document and escalate incidents that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment and analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
  • Perform event correlation to using information gathered for a variety of sources withing the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
  • Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings).
  • Notify the government of suspected cyber incidents and articulate the event's history, status, and potential impact for further action in accordance with the government's cyber incident response plan.
  • Provides cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles, computer networking concepts, protocols, network security methodologies, laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.
  • Knowledge of risk management
  • BA in Computer Science with 5 years experience or AA in Computer Science with 7 years experience. Closed completed T5 (SSBI, SBPR, PPR) investigation with eligibility to Top Secret.
  • Must have a total of three (3) Microsoft Certifications consisting of a combination of the following:
  • Must have two (2) of the following Microsoft Certifications:
  • Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
  • Cybersecurity Architect Expert Red Hat Certified Engineer
  • Automated Compliance and Assessment System Certification OR at least one (1) role based Microsoft Certification:
  • Identity and Access Administrator Associate Azure Network Engineer Associate
  • Azure Security Engineer Associate Cybersecurity Architect Expert Security Operations Analyst Associate Cybersecurity Architect
  • Azure Network Engineer Associate

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