Company: Guidehouse supporting DEA Role: Security Specialist
Location: Arlington, VA (onsite 5 days per week)
Duration: Contract to Hire Citizenship: US Citizen with active Secret Clearance
Rate: $65 an hour (140k conversion salary no flex on
salary a little flex on hourly)
looking for an experienced
professional with experience in building, managing, and controlling the secure
configurations of information systems for federal organizations. Your duties
will include managing and controlling secure configurations of over 200
information systems for a federal client with a critical and high-profile
mission in accordance with NIST 800-128 guidance and applicable federal and
organizational policies to enable security and facilitate the management of
risk. You will use Security-Focused Configuration Management (SecCM) to build
on the general concepts, processes, and activities of configuration management
by attention on the implementation and maintenance of the established security
requirements of the organization and systems. You will ensure information
security configuration management requirements are integrated into (or
complement) existing organizational configuration management processes (e.g.,
business functions, applications, products) and information systems. Additional
SecCM duties and activities include:
Identification
and recording of configurations that impact the security posture of the
system and the organization.
The
consideration of security risks in approving the initial configuration.
The
analysis of security implications of changes to the system configuration.
Documentation
of the approved/implemented changes.
Qualitative
and quantitative research to support work assignments for meeting the
deliverable objective.
Qualitative
and quantitative analyses for assigned tasks.
Compilation
of research, findings, and other information into written formats such as
white papers, reports, presentations, and other forms of technical
documentation
Participation
in policy development for configuration management.
Configuration
management planning and management.
Configuration
identification.
Configuration
management and IT security audits.
Information
Locations Position Open to Only localsIndustry Information TechnologyStatus OpenJob Age 31 Day'sCreated Date 07/14/2025No.of Positions 1Duration 12Zip Code
