ISSO Support / IA Compliance Analyst

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

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Responsibilities

We have an exciting opportunity at the Department of State! The Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) works with the ISSO Group to manage and support security and IA compliance for all customer IT environments support the customer’s mission to provide IT services to DoS users enterprise wide.

Responsibilities:

• You will document and maintain security diagrams, plans, procedures, policies, logs, and reports, and provide support for security tests to validate that required controls are properly implemented and effective.
• This role requires you to fully cooperate with DoS audits, reviews, evaluations, tests, and assessments of contractor systems, processes, and facilities.
• Additionally, you will assist in: supporting the Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process (overall coordination and management is handled by a different team/contractor), supporting POA&M findings, developing, and implementing remediation as assigned by the USG ISSO, and providing POA&M status reporting, supporting the identification, remediation, tracking, management, and validation of findings from sources outside the A&A process, maintaining standard configurations in compliance with DoS security standards, managing security compliance using Group Policy Objects (GPO), and supporting network enclaving and segregation.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

The following are the education and experience required for this position:

• 5+ years
• Bachelor's in IT or related field
• Security+ (DoD 8570 IAT II min.); CISSP desired Certification(s) 
• Secret Security Clearance 

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

• ITIL 4 Foundation Certification(s) 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:   

• • Sitting for long periods
  • Standing for long periods
  • Ambulate throughout an office
  • Ambulate between several buildings
  • Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
  • Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to 40 pounds
  • Travel by land or air transportation 10 % . 

About Empower AI

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm’s overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.