Jr Security Analyst at Cognosante, LLC

The Security Analyst is responsible for all activities related to designing, selecting, implementing, and maintaining security controls for major information systems supporting federal government contracts, including achieving and sustaining authorization to operate (ATO) following NIST Risk Management Framework procedures and guidance mandated under FISMA.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree +2 - 4 years of experience
• Provides task unique functional expertise necessary to interpret requirements, ensure responsiveness and achieve successful performance
• Possess demonstrated knowledge in designated field or discipline
• Possesses experience providing solutions to an organization’s challenges through the application of knowledge gained through similar prior engagements
• Participates in the development of solutions by leveraging knowledge of the designated field or discipline
• Contributes to the implementation of strategy and helps assess the impact of industry trends, policy, and/or standard methodologies. degree or other equivalent degree
• Candidates that do not meet the required qualifications will not be considered.

Additional Minimum Qualifications

• Experience analyzing data and presenting to stakeholders
• Experience working with FISMA and NIST requirements
• Experience reviewing and documenting NIST security controls

Preferred Qualifications

• Formal education or professional experience in information assurance, information security management
• Ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment.
• Ability to successfully execute many complex tasks simultaneously
• Information security certifications such as: Security +, CASP, CISA, CISM
• Cognosante will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits for this position.

Description

Security Clearance required:

Able to obtain Public Trust

Cognosante is on a mission to transform our country’s healthcare and national security systems. With our health and security-focused solutions, we help public sector organizations achieve the important task of providing the best possible public services to American Citizens. From Enterprise IT, Data Science, and Security Services, to full-scale Consumer Engagement and Interoperability solutions, we are moving government services forward with transformation and innovation. Learn how we are making a difference in people’s lives today!

Job Description

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The Security Analyst is responsible for all activities related to designing, selecting, implementing, and maintaining security controls for major information systems supporting federal government contracts, including achieving and sustaining authorization to operate (ATO) following NIST Risk Management Framework procedures and guidance mandated under FISMA.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides content to and collaboration with training staff on training stakeholders on triaging transactions and the reconciliation process. This includes the continuous process improvement of the reconciliation process.
• Analyze systems, data, and operating environments to determine appropriate security controls.
• Work closely with project team members to make sure that applicable security requirements are incorporated in systems and solutions deployed for the project
• Participate in business, technical, and security reviews of the solution to explain selected security and privacy controls
• Perform initial and ongoing risk assessments of the system
• Creation and maintenance of security documentation related to the ATO and ATC package
• Lead initiatives for security controls assessment with third party auditors

Like many other growing companies, Cognosante has been targeted by scammers attempting to make fraudulent job offers to potential candidates. Communication from Cognosante recruiting will only be sent with an official corporate domain email (e.g., @cognosante.com or @accurate.com) and not a commercial domain e-mail (e.g., @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). We will never request payment from you, nor will we send payment to you, prior to your start date. If you have been asked to send or receive any payment, or if you have any doubt about whether you have been contacted by a Cognosante employee, please contact us at

[email protected]

. Thank you.

Cognosante is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.