Cybersecurity Principal Specialist #542

Required Work Experience Seven to ten years of progressively responsible experience in cybersecurity, with a track record of leading initiatives to resolve highly complex cybersecurity issues. Subject matter expertise in one or more cybersecurity domains. Strong leadership skills, including experience managing project teams and coordinating efforts across multiple departments. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategic cybersecurity policies, standards, and frameworks that align with organizational goals. As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role. Desired Qualifications We are seeking a candidate with basic knowledge in key areas of cybersecurity. The ideal candidate should have: Core Cybersecurity Understanding: A grasp of cybersecurity principles, understanding of cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and methods for their identification and mitigation. Risk Management Framework: Demonstrated understanding and experience performing systems security assessments, preparing system security documentation and security artifacts, assessing performance of security controls based on NIST 800-53, identifying risks to the organization and their systems, and strong collaboration skills necessary to facilitate risk management on an enterprise scale. Leadership: Ability to lead a contracting team of RMF experts who will oversee the development, implementation and maintenance of the RMF and serve as the Government central point of contact for all RMF-related activities. Metrics: The skills to produce data driven metrics which measure and report on the effectiveness and efficiency of all RMF activities. Customer Service: Experience working with a diverse range of customers to assess systems and controls, recommend solutions, direct mitigating actions to the proper action element, and communicate RMF activities to senior level stakeholders. Technical Skills and Knowledge: Skill in Risk Management, information assurance, high level communication skills, data collection and analysis, and data management automation, and skill in developing or recommending analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or for which no precedent exists. Analytical Abilities: Ability to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize large quantities of into high quality, effective RMF products and processes. Cybersecurity Techniques: General knowledge of risk management, information assurance, risk assessments, technical compliance components, vulnerability assessments, policies and procedures, enterprise network architecture, assessment and authorization (A&A), system engineering, testing and evaluation, and continuous monitoring. Working Conditions This position directly supports essential services of the U.S. Senate. As such, this position requires the employee be available and prepared to work during government shutdowns, in inclement weather, on holidays, weekends, and during late nights to ensure essential services to the Senate continue without interruption. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted. The U.S. Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session. As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays. Employees who perform systems upgrades, maintenance, wiring, backups, support our alternate data centers will have schedules that include working nights, weekends, and holidays. Sedentary. Security Clearance This position requires that the applicant obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government security clearance. Applicants must be U.S. citizens in order for the SAA to submit your application for a security clearance.
The Senate Sergeant at Arms is seeking a Cybersecurity Principal Specialist. The complete vacancy announcement and application can be found on the United States Senate Career Page at https://sen.gov/J5NY. This vacancy announcement closes at 7pm EST on the closing date. Late applications will not be accepted.