About the Position

Specialty Systems, Inc. has an immediate opening for an Information Security Officer (ISO) who will be responsible for leading and performing the activities necessary to maintain security and establish functioning external barriers, define/create/maintain the documentation for certification and accreditation of research and development labs in accordance with government requirements. The ISO will assess the impacts on system modifications and technological advances. Additionally, the ISO will review systems in order to identify potential security weaknesses, recommend improvements to amend vulnerabilities, implement changes and document upgrades. In this position you will work at our customer’s site located a few short miles west of our Toms River, NJ office. You will also work our customer’s Compressed Work Schedule which consists of working four 9 hour days, an 8 hour day for the first week of a cycle followed by four 9 hour days and being off on the second Friday for the second week of a cycle. This results in a 3 day weekend every other week!

Job responsibilities will include:

• Developing Information Assurance (IA)/Cybersecurity strategies.
• Developing Information Assurance/Cybersecurity plans for the new networks and labs connected the Navy’s Research, Development, Test and Evaluation network.
• Performing Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) vulnerability scanning for networks and system components.
• Developing Information Assurance/Cybersecurity plans for Navy networks and systems
• Defining connectivity and interface requirements.
• Applying DoD IA and Information Security (IS) policies and standards to system and network configurations.
• Assessing system/software risk and vulnerability.
• Supporting IA/Cybersecurity integration.
• Preparing IA/Cybersecurity support documentation.
• Developing RMF packages for the certification and accreditation of both new and existing networks/labs/Programs of Record.
• Monitoring the security posture of assigned networks/labs/programs and develop remediation and mitigation plans and tasking to address vulnerabilities.