ConMon Cyber Systems Engineer (Continuous Monitoring)
This position is contingent upon award.
Requires an active TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance prior to consideration.
The program provides Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) core and non-core support in the areas of Cyber Security and Management to improve the Information Assurance (IA) posture of a National customer. The contracts Core Capabilities are: IA Management, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) coordination and reporting, Risk Management Framework (RMF) application, IA compliance measurements and metrics, Assessment and Authorization (A&A), Vulnerability Management, and Cyber Defense support.
The ConMon Cyber Engineer provides support to the customer in the area of Cyber Security. Daily tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Support the Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Program Lead in maturing the customer’s Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) program.
- Generate and lead ConMon process improvement activities
- Coordinate with the Cyber Data Science team to identify sources of information to better evaluate customers ConMon activities.
- Coordinate with Cyber Data Science team to create new views of customer’s ConMon posture
- Collect the necessary data, develop, and deliver reports to show customer’s progress of the enterprise wide ConMon program.
- Develop and deliver asset ConMon compliance views for categories such as mission, cross domain, and location, as required by the customer.
- Proactively identify and provide metrics and reporting data appropriate for stakeholders in each of the Tiers identified in the NIST SP 800-137
- Validates, for efficacy, ConMon control Bodies-of-Evidence (BOEs) entered in the ConMon tool
- Guides, mentors and instructs program Information System Security Officers (ISSOs) on methods to improve ConMon BOE entry language
- Assist Security Control Accessors (SCAs), FISMA and Inspector General (IG) Teams on examining ConMon BOEs for official reporting
- Proactively identify and provide metrics and reporting data appropriate for AO/DAOs to make sound risk decisions for continued authorization of systems
- Initiate and participate in studies to improve ConMon reporting metrics
- Recommend improvements on Enterprise Security Services (ESS) tool implementations