Security Control Assessor Representative

About the role

Electrosoft Services, LLC is an award-winning company that provides comprehensive technology-based solutions and services to federal customers. While cybersecurity is our specialty, we also focus on ICAM, Zero Trust, digital engineering and transformation, and enterprise AI and intelligent automation. We always seek to delight our customers, so we retain highly qualified employees and offer them meaningful work, growth opportunities, and work-life balance. What sets us apart from all other contractors is the sense of teamwork our employees feel – and the knowledge that outstanding effort is recognized and rewarded. The camaraderie we share emanates from Lunch & Learn sessions where we explore new ideas together, fun group activities ranging from escape rooms to miniature golf, and much, much more. If we’ve described you and your dream workplace, please apply and share in the many benefits and opportunities we offer.

Security Control Assessor Representative

Job description

Electrosoft is seeking a Security Control Assessor Representative (SCAR) - to support our DoD customer at Scott Air Force Base, IL. The SCAR will independently assess the adequacy and compliance of security controls applied to the agency on behalf of the Government SCA and Authorizing Official (AO). SCAR personnel will assist Government personnel with the overall responsibility to conduct independent comprehensive assessments of the management, operational, privacy and technical security controls and controls enhancements employed within or inherited by an IT system to determine the overall effectives of the controls for more than 40 Programs of Record in use across the Enterprise. The SCAR will collect, provide, and maintain current documentation on authorization processes and procedures.

Duties & Responsibilities:

- Assess, identify, and provide to the Government, for AO approval, a listing of recommended enterprise security controls/enhancements that provide mission assurance for cyber USTRANCOM terrain systems supporting USTRANSCOM’s mission.

- Provide SME support for RMF activities within and/or outside Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) or other tool as designated by the Government.

- Provide technical and operational analyses of supporting artifacts and provide risk analysis recommendations to the SCA.

- Perform triage of authorization, POA&M, System Security Plan, System Categorization, and risk acceptance requests using the Govt RMF Artifact Quality Rubric.

- Identify non-compliant submissions, document in the Package Return Report (PRR), and submit to the Government SCA for approval and signature.

- Review security artifacts provided by program offices or other organizations and assess both technical and functional adequacy of cybersecurity/Information Assurance (IA) controls.

- Perform the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) role within eMASS on NIPRNet and SIPRNet, verifying that controls are in-place, operating as intended, producing desired outcomes, and providing feedback to submitters on non-compliant security controls, adequacy of artifacts, and POA&M items, and provide the required PRR as needed.