SAP Security Specialist II (TS/SCI #25-170) - Military veterans preferred

Strategic Analysis, Inc.

Strategic Analysis, Inc. is an EOE Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.

Job Code: 25-170
Location: Arlington, VA
FT/PT Status: Full Time
Required Clearance: Top Secret SCI

Strategic Analysis, Inc. is in search of a Mid-Level SAP Security Specialist is responsible for managing key aspects of security for Special Access Programs (SAPs), including day-to-day management of government and contractor sites. This role requires a comprehensive understanding of program protection methodologies, security classification architectures, OPSEC, COMSEC, and all relevant security disciplines. The Mid-Level Specialist works with a Program Management Office (PMO) to ensure compliance.

Responsibilities:
•Develop and support security architectures for new technology programs across the entire spectrum of classification.
•Research, develop, and implement long and short-range program protection security strategies and tactics.
•Determine, apply, and monitor appropriate security requirements (physical, information, personnel, industrial) for specific programs. Recommend and implement security improvements.
•Create DD 254's, DoD Contract Security Classification Specification, for classified efforts, ensuring security requirements are clear and concise. Ensure DD 254s are created and staffed to the PSO and Information/Industrial Security section within 5 business days of being tasked and disseminated to appropriate contractors and contracting agents within 2 business days of receipt after approval.
•Apply expert knowledge of Executive Order 13526, the NISPOM, DoD Information Security Manuals, and DoD SAP Security Manuals.
•Indoctrinate newly assigned personnel and de-brief departing personnel
•Support the creation, processing, coordination, and approval of physical security (SAP Facility and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) and Automated Information Systems (AIS)) accreditations, as well as entering such information, including individual's programs, contracts and performers, if required, into appropriate information security management systems, i.e.:
o DISS
o Scattered Castles
o Joint Access Database Environment (JADE)
•Communicate effectively with other Service /Agency program security staffs including, but not limited to, the Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA), Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Department of Energy, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and agencies and offices within the IC.
•Develop, write, review, coordinate, and execute security documentation, e.g.:
•Security Classification Guides (SCGs); all levels
•Program Protection Plans
•Test Security Plans
•Public Affairs (PA) / Perception Management Plans
•Exposure Contingency Plans (ECP)
•Network Accreditation Plans
•System Security Plans
•Technology Transfer and Program Transition Plans
•Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
•Co-Utilization Agreements (CUA)
•O'CONUS Deployment Plans
•Managed Access Plans
•Treaty Compliance Plans
•Transportation Plans
•Dismantle, Disposition & Demilitarization Plans
•Detailed trip & meeting reports
•Memorandums of Understanding (MOU)
•Memorandums of Agreements (MOA)
•Plan, coordinate, provide, and manage security support for meetings. Attend program reviews, i.e., preliminary design reviews (PDR), critical design reviews (CDR), and integrated product team (IPT) reviews, to ensure changes to system baselines don't negatively affect security and initiate actions to add mitigation where necessary.
•Actively support Agency Staff Assistance Visits of cleared defense industry base contractors and government agencies as well as the US CYBER COMMAND (CYBERCOM) Self-Inspection Programs.
•Perform OPSEC analysis and provide other OPSEC support, to include identification of critical program information (CPI), collecting and analyzing threat data, and developing and coordinating program OPSEC plans.
•Plan and assist with program close-out actions including participation in program closeout reviews at performer sites.
•Participate in and play a key role in the Broad Area Announcement (BAA) process in support of new programs, provide security support to all classification and security architected programs, and ensure security support for all classified programs. Support the PM's vision to bring in new ideas while protecting National Security interests
•Mentor junior security staff.

Qualifications:
•BS with a minimum 6 to 8 years of related DoD or IC experience
•Candidates must hold a TS/SCI with the willingness and ability to pass a CI polygraph; it is highly desirable for candidates to have taken and passed CI polygraph within the past three years
•Comprehensive understanding of SAP security principles and regulations.
•In-depth knowledge of physical, personnel, and industrial security requirements in the SAP environment.
•Excellent written and verbal communication and briefing skills.
•Ability to lead and manage security projects.
•Qualifying relevant experience includes demonstrated recent experience in successfully performing as a program security representative (or similar title) for one or more programs on a contract or in an organization that provides security support to a federal entity or private corporation in a classified environment
•The SAP Security Specialist requires a fundamental knowledge of the basics of program protection, classification architectures, Operations Security (OPSEC), Communications Security (COMSEC), sensitive test planning, intelligence & counterintelligence threat support requirements, secure information transmission, secure hardware transportation, and the principles governing controls on fundamental research activities.

Travel Requirements: Limited travel within the region.

Strategic Analysis, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to non-discrimination in employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religions, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, disability (physical or mental), age (40 or older), protected veteran status, genetic information (including family medical history) or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy includes but is not limited to the following employment actions: recruitment, hiring, firing, promotion, demotion, compensation, fringe benefits, training, mentoring and sponsorship programs.

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