Lead Analyst - ISSO

Description & Requirements

Since 1975, Maximus has operated under its founding mission of Helping Government Serve the People, enabling citizens around the globe to successfully engage with their governments at all levels and across a variety of health and human services programs.

Maximus delivers innovative business process management and technology solutions that contribute to improved outcomes for citizens and higher levels of productivity, accuracy, accountability and efficiency of government-sponsored programs.

With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, Maximus is a proud partner to government agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

For more information, visit https://www.maximus.com .

The Information Systems Security Officer supports and sustains the client's cybersecurity program; provides cybersecurity management for operational performance and compliance for all networks, systems and applications, provides centralized management of Security Assessments (SA), ongoing assessments, new authorizations, proposes information security technical and administrative solutions, develops and executes plans for monitoring and assessing networks, systems and applications, supports sustainment of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process and cloud application onboarding.

The Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) for Federal Services will work directly with the Business Information Security Officer (BISO) supporting the Maximus Federal Services business segment to align all technologies, policies, standards, and procedures that support federal customers with federal requirements, including FISMA, applicable FAR and DFAR Clauses, Executive Orders, and OMB's.

The primary role of the ISSO will be the creation, management, and administration of a System Security Plan (SSP) to include all required artifacts needed to obtain a CMMC certification and to maintain compliance with NIST 800-53 and associated NIST 800 series publications.

The ISSO will be responsible for continuous monitoring of the technology environment supporting federal customers and will be the subject matter specialist for control management and the establishment of Inheritance which will be used to support existing and future federal projects to include the DoD.

Additional Requirements as per contract/client:
Candidates must be a US Citizen

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

-Responsible for ensuring information security for an assigned area of Business / Project focusing on key areas of risk, outlined in the Information Security policy, under the direction of the Information Security management team.

- Conduct Information Security risk assessments and compliance evaluations for infrastructure and application assets within required timeframes and to industry standards and regulatory specifications.

- Ensure controls implementation for identified Information Security risks for b...