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Peraton is hiring an ISSO Support Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. As a Systems Engineer on our team, you will support one of the largest enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year; and work is performed at a customer location. As an ISSO Support Systems Engineer you will perform the following activities:

• Serve as a principal advisor to the Government on all matters, technical and otherwise, involving the security of an Information System (IS).
• Provide the detailed knowledge and expertise required to manage the security aspects of an IS.

Maintain responsibility for the day-to-day security operations of the system.

Responsibilities may also include:

• Security Control Validation Visits
• Secure Configuration and Change management
• Event Management
• Account Management
• Vulnerability Management
• Security Incident Management
• POA&M Management
• Reauthorization
• Decommissioning
• Collaborate with the System Owner to maintain Approval to Operate (ATO), including the resolution of any Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&M) documents issued by the DAO.
• Maintain and validate account and vulnerability management.
• Develop and provide updated System Security Plans (SSPs) and supporting documentation (e.g. SECONOPs, diagrams, Privileged User's Guide).
• Respond to any data calls.
• Provide security design guidance and analysis to the project team throughout the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process.
• Collaborate with the Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) in the design, build, and self-test of systems.
• Perform reviews of technical security assessments of computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations, and recommended mitigation strategies.
• Utilize XACTA, the system of record for SCA data.

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