General Dynamics Information Technology

Chief Information Security Officer – Veterans Affairs Business Area

General Dynamics Information Technology

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $129,625 - $175,375 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudCyber Security

About the role

  • Join GDIT where your work will improve outcomes for our Veterans
  • Support the Veterans Affairs Business Area within GDIT to ensure strict compliance of cloud hosting environments meet both GDIT security controls as well as Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
  • Together, we’re building a secure future of managed services solutions that includes customer data in company-owned and company-controlled environment
  • Lead a team of Cyber Security Engineers, System Engineers and Architects supporting current and future state of our cloud environments under a VA authority-to-operate (ATO)
  • Create and implement cyber security best practices and refine their strategies and approaches to meet long-term needs
  • Help to grow our business, supporting proposals and meeting with customers to strategize on best practices for both their Cyber Security and Data Privacy needs
  • Develop and implement security and privacy solutions, best practices, controls and reporting mechanisms for the VA Business Area portfolio
  • Coordinate all security and privacy activities across all the VA Business Area contracts; as well as track improvements and ensure minimized risk profiles, etc
  • Serve as the single POC for GDIT corporate reporting and data calls within the Federal Health sector, coordinating corporate security standards
  • Serve as advisor for Cyber Incidents and Incident Response affecting VA Business Area
  • Champion Cyber and IT KPIs across the VA Business Area, working closely with FedHealth Risk team
  • Lead and/or support solutions for cybersecurity aspects for proposals across the VA Business Area
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to our VA customer and other CISO’s across the Federal Health division
  • Collaborate and support security activities across the broader Federal Health division
  • Lead and coordinate the activities of a team of security engineers and system administrators responsible for security on individual VA contracts
  • Create a communities of practice, ensure appropriate training to keep our teams up to date, create career paths, etc
  • Prepare and provide various reports and technical cyber security reviews to senior management as requested
  • Ensure compliance with relevant corporate and VA policies and standards

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
  • 15+ years related experience
  • 5+ years direct FISMA data security for Federal Agencies
  • 4+ years of direct experience supporting the cyber security controls of solutions into an AWS or Azure cloud environment for Government Contracts
  • CISSP or equivalent professional certification
  • Experience managing a cyber-practice/cyber security program portfolio across multiple customer bases within the Federal government health sector (and preferably across Federal Civilian customers as well)
  • Experience leading cyber solutions for major government proposals / solicitations
  • Experience managing and developing a team of cyber professionals
  • Demonstrable experience building and growing exceptional customer relationships
  • Expertise with government Authorization to Operate (ATO) and Security Control Assessment (SCA) processes for traditional data centers and FedRAMP space
  • Strong technical understanding and abilities in both cyber security and data privacy
  • Experience managing the client interface at senior levels of an organization
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to business leaders
  • Must be able to obtain a MBI (T2) and successfully pass a thorough a government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
Benefits
  • Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
  • dental plan options
  • a vision plan
  • a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
  • To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
  • GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year
  • Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
  • The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
  • other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
FISMA data securitycyber security controlsAWSAzurecyber security program managementsecurity control assessmentdata privacy solutionsincident responsecybersecurity best practicesrisk management
Soft skills
leadershipcustomer relationship managementcommunicationteam developmentstrategic planningcollaborationreportingadvisory skillstrainingproblem-solving
Certifications
CISSPMBI (T2)