Vulnerability Assessment Analyst Jr

Provide Vulnerability Assessment (VA) support to agency information systems, including but not limited to the following:

• Assist the Government in managing Enterprise Information System Vulnerability Management (ISVM) compliance validation.
• Assist the Government in briefing leadership on current and future vulnerabilities, security policies and industry standards.
• Assist the Government in briefing leadership on most impactful vulnerabilities, configurations, and penetration testing efforts.
• Assist the Government in creating and managing all scans in accordance with the VAT scan standardization documentation.
• Assist the Government in performing regularly scheduled vulnerability assessments using a master schedule as directed.
• Assist the Government in managing, customizing, and maintaining scan policies, zones, and repositories as they relate to the agency network.
• Assist the Government in performing scan functions and review scan results to ensure accurate findings.
• Assist the Government in creating and customizing scan reports and data feeds to be imported / integrated into third party assessment tools.
• Support the coordination of the VA scanning and testing in advance with the system ISSO and the Government Task Monitor (TM) to assure coordination with network maintenance, availability, and operations.
• Coordinate with system owner / ISSM/ ISSO to make any necessary changes to the schedule.
• Assist the Government in maintaining a repository of VA application issues and report application issues to Government VAT Team Lead and SSD Director.
• Travel to be physically on location to perform onsite security assessments of agency facilities, systems, and applications as requested.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in information assurance, cybersecurity, risk management, or compliance; to include experience with IT vulnerability assessments/management.
• US Citizenship / No Dual

Other Job Specific Skills

• Familiarity with Zero Trust Architecture Implementation and best practices.

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