Information Assurance Process Engineer

Leidos’ Corporate Information Security (CIS) has an immediate opening for an Information Assurance (IA) Process Engineer in Reston, VA. In this role you will report to the Performance Optimization Manager.  The Process Engineer will assist with efforts to optimize performance and growth related to governance of classified information systems within the enterprise information assurance program.  Duties include contributing to the analysis and creation of solutions for information assurance activities that align with strategic intents and government compliance, provide recommendations for added speed, scale, and security to enterprise practices and business enablement.

The Process Engineer will partner with IA leaders, Security, and other relevant functions to facilitate creation of common secure, scalable, practices and procedures.  The individual will assist with assessments of operations, recommend, and implementation of corrective actions and practices.  Activities will scale across the Information Assurance operations to meet strategic intents.

Primary Responsibilities

• Engage with the Information Assurance team members to establish processes and procedures for governance of classified information systems.
• Contribute to projects that include multiple teams led by managers and/or supervisors to analyze consistency of IA practices and procedures.
• Actively participate in IA team collaboration for creation and implementation of common practices and procedures.
• Conduct communication with parties within and outside of own project/family to include line mangers.
• Collaborate with others to understand and adopt new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Assist with providing security solutions to optimize performance and ensure security measures are consistent and effective.
• Impacts functional strategy by developing processes, standards, or operational plans that add speed, scale, and security to IA practices.
• Contribute to efforts to engineer, implement, and enforce technical and administrative security measures and processes to ensure all system achieve and maintain government compliance with directives outline in the JAFAN 6/3, JSIG, ICD 503, DODIIS, NIST RMF and NISPOM / DAAPM.

Basic Qualifications

• Requires a BA/BS and 2-4 years of experience.
• Experience supporting processes and procedures.
• Strong writing and verbal communications skills.
• Strong organization skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Windows and Linux.

Six Sigma certification and/or knowledge

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.