Job Description

Required Travel: 0 - 10% 

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Hours Per Week: 40 

Security Clearance: Top Secret 

Level of Experience: Senior 

Mission Technologies, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst V for the Navy Integrated Training Environment (NITE) program. The Cybersecurity Analyst V, will serve as the Host Based Security System (HBSS) Administrator and will be part of the Cybersecurity Team to provide IT repair, maintenance, operations, logistics, and engineering services to ensure secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of Enterprise IT Systems. 
The candidate will be responsible for the operation and system administration of the Host Based Security Systems supporting the Naval Integrated Training Environment.

Position requires flexibility to work occasional non-standard work hours and work weeks of more than 40 hours to meet business, customer, and contractual requirements.  Additionally, position requires flexibility as duties and responsibilities may be adjusted to meet business, customer, and contractual requirements.
 

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Performs assessments of systems and networks within the networking environment or enclave and identifies systems and networks that deviate from acceptable configurations, enclave policy, or local policy.
• Evaluates incident response procedures and capabilities.
• Exploits system and network vulnerabilities and misconfigurations for purposes of gathering data from target or adversary automated information systems or networks and to enable operations and intelligence collection capabilities.
• Leverages computer networks to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information resident in computers and computer networks, or the computers and networks themselves.
• Create customized scanning/testing configurations within testing tools to suit security configuration requirements.
• Identify the applicable NIST 800-53 security controls or policies that correspond to any finding identified via manual or automated testing, to a specific CVE, IT technologies, or any other physical or logical subject.
• Perform analysis of cybersecurity directives, policies and instructions to include, but not limited to: Communications Task Orders (CTOs), Fragmentary/Task/Operation Orders (FRAG/TASK/OPORDs), IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) guidance, and STIG requirements.
• Ensure current security testing and evaluation software is sufficient to the task of conducting infrastructure security testing and regularly look for and recommend additional software that may fill gaps in current security testing toolset.
• Provide subject matter expertise concerning known vulnerabilities, and become knowledgeable of newly released vulnerabilities, and discuss methods of exploitation, methods of mitigation or remediation, severity of impact and other pertinent considerations of vulnerabilities.
• Perform risk analysis/independent verification on security configuration and STIG finding risk reports / POA&Ms for devices on the network.
• Provide system administration and maintain operations of HBSS servers.
• Implement HBSS migration/compliance strategy.
• Troubleshoot HBSS product issues and outages.
• Administer ePO tree structure management.
• Administer policy catalog management.
• Coordinate ASI details and planning as needed.
• Maintain system patches, O/S, SQL, and HBSS STIG compliance.
• Resolve ePO server (O/S, ePO, or SQL) issues.
• Maintain the ePO server (automated tasks, task scheduler, database maintenance tasks, etc.)
• Ability to work independently or in as an integrated team with strong organizational and communication skills
   

Minimum Qualifications

•    9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field OR
•    7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field OR
•    4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field OR
•    High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience
•    Must currently hold and be able to maintain US Secret security clearance
 

Preferred Requirements

• HBSS specific training and/or certification (e.g. DISA HBSS 201 Admin ePO5.1(Required) and DISA HBSS 301 Advanced ePO5.1preferred
• Comply with the DoD Cyber IT/CSWF Program requirements of DoD 8570.1-M and SECNAV M-5239.2 at the Intermediate (IAT-II) level. Minimum COMPTIA Security+ certification (CISSP) preferred)
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) preferred
   

Physical Requirements

• May require working in an office, industrial, shipboard, or laboratory environment.
• Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances.

This opportunity resides with Live, Virtual, Constructive Solutions, a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. As a trusted partner to our military customers, we design, develop and operate systems that bring together service members from across the globe to help you train like you fight, because we understand that preparation requires full coordination—not readiness in piece parts.

HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider. With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics. HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions that support and enable a networked, all-domain force. Headquartered in Virginia, HII’s skilled workforce is 44,000 strong. For more information, please visit: hii.com.

HII is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.