The Defense Group at Leidos as an exciting opportunity as a Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) Analyst on our GSM-O II IDIQ contract’s Joint Service Provider (JSP) Cyber Security Task Order in Alexandria, VA. JSP provides a full range of IT products, services, and solutions and customer services to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and the Joint Staff (JS), Director of Administration (DA), Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), and other OSD offices for them to meet mission and business requirements. Through the JSP Cyber Security program, JSP performs a wide variety of services and functions required to secure the information security posture for DoD services.

This position allows up to 50% telework after a ramp up period (about 3-4 weeks spent 100% on-site).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitor IT systems (re-authorization and new systems) throughout their life cycle for changes that may impact the security posture of the system
• Validate updates to the system security plans and the Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&M)  in the security assessment and management tool to reflect changes to the IT system
• Validate that controls applicable to the automated ConMon reviews are properly implemented as part of the corresponding Risk Management Framework (RMF) package in Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS).  
• Utilizes business intelligent tools to develop ConMon capability and integration with RMF
• Participate, contribute, and provide information as part of Step 0 and other steps of the RMF process and data call information and provide assistance in kickoff meetings if assessments are needed.  
• Design, develop, maintain, execute and improve a comprehensive ConMon program based on the organizational ConMon strategy.  
• Perform continuous assessments of all security controls for all Information Systems (IS) under the purview of the organization.  
• Perform automated/manual security control monitoring of the IS and provide IS and Security Control Status Reports.  Develop and maintain standard ConMon plan templates for ISs. 
• Maintain the status for automated and manual security controls and identify any past due for assessment and validation.
• Coordinate and facilitate coordination with system administrators, Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) administrators, Host Based Security System (HBSS)administrators, etc. on issues receiving the acceptable credentialing percentages on scans, HBSS data, etc.
• Support the system development lifecycle of a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) technical solution within the organization.  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT-related field and 8-12 years of IT program/project management experience leading Continuous Monitoring and Vulnerability Management activities
• 5 or more years with tools such as ACAS, HBSS, Tanium, or Splunk.
• Active DoD Secret or higher - program can support up to TS/SCI
• Demonstrates experience with applying compliance standards to large and complex IT environments. 
• Demonstrates ability to evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls and standards to ensure compliancy in accordance with the applicable audits and inspections for an organization. 
• Demonstrates level understanding of vulnerabilities/weaknesses across complex IT environments and ability to understand applicability of security standards across technologies. 
• Demonstrates experience with communicating and coordinating at a functional and senior government. 
• Demonstrates experience with data analysis and developing work products to enable government risk based decisions.
• Demonstrated experience with the development and execution of knowledge management best practices and the automation of knowledge management frameworks in order to enhance processes and procedures related to the management of the ConMon Program.
• Demonstrates experience with the development and coordination of guidance and work products related to issues tracking management, plan of actions and milestones, and ensuring transparency of vulnerabilities within an organization.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification

Preferred Qualifications:

ACAS, HBSS, and/or Tanium certifications or ability to obtain

GSMO

TN10

Original Posting Date:

2024-08-29

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $101,400.00 - $183,300.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.