Chief Information Security Officer

Overview

SMS is currently recruiting for a SME Chief Information Security Officer Lead working at Arnold Air Force base in Tennessee.  The Air Force Test Center's (AFTC) Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) is a national aerospace ground test facility that conducts tests, engineering analyses, and technical evaluations for research, system development, and operational programs of the Air Force (AF)and Department of Defense (DoD), other Government agencies, and industry.  

offers proven solutions in engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. With expertise in modernizing and optimizing legacy infrastructure and systems, ensuring operational efficiency, and designing, implementing, and managing secure environments, SMS supports business and mission goals with proficiency, quality, and integrity.

SMS has been serving the advanced information technology needs of the federal government since 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 45 years. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. For additional information on SMS, visit www.sms.com.

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Responsibilities

• Support the Cyber team as it seeks to improve the AEDC ability to protect the installation by detecting and responding to threats.  
• Provide subject matter expertise as it relates to enterprise network security architecture, current threat actor activities, and best of breed cyber mitigating solutions considering cost, risks addressed, and applicability. 
• Lead a team of Cyber Security Engineers to perform vulnerability testing, penetration testing, gap analysis, threat-based assessments, identify current capability strengths and weaknesses, and provide concise actionable results to assist senior decision makers in how best to allocate the Cyber budget and respond to threats. 
• Lead engagements with the Air Force Cyber and Systems Engineering organizations and stakeholders. 
• Manage the scoping, assignment, progress, and completion of work assigned to the Cyber Team. 
• Provide leadership and guidance for analyzing and discovering useful content from the Cyber and Systems Engineering – oriented information sources, and how it can be fed to analysis tools to help answer specific question types. 
• Provide guidance for considering Cyber Security Engineering/Operations and Systems Engineering best practices from commercial IT delivery organizations as part of transformation solutions. 
• Provide leadership and guidance for the team’s work in identifying transformation/improvement recommendations along with structured and credible rationale, and support the documentation and communication of the team’s work and the results. 
• Provide mentoring to team members to increase their competency, knowledge and effectiveness related to the governance, assessment, operations and execution of Cyber Security, Cyber Engineering and Systems Engineering practices for DoD IT systems and services.
• Experience operating in a Federal, Intelligence, or DoD IT program organization. 
• Experience working with information securing and information assurance requirements, architecting security solutions, and assessing the operations of deployed security solutions.
• Experience assessing an organization’s current Cyber Security operations and identifying actionable improvements. 
• Experience assessing the cyber security posture across the complete IT ecosystem including enterprise software and systems, networks, hosting environments, and end devices, and identifying prioritized actions to be taken to reduce risk. 
• Experience assessing and embedding cyber security processes and principles in all life cycle phases of IT software and systems, from the perspective of developer, hosting operator, portfolio manager, and functional owner. 
• Experience assessing vulnerabilities and securing systems from cyber attacks.

Qualifications

• 10 years experience in a cyber security role. 
• 5 years experience in management of enclave or enterprise cybersecurity
• Must be CISSP, GSLC, or CISM certified (or other certification in compliance with DoD 8570 requirements for IAM Level III). 
• Must hold active DoD Top Secret security clearance

SMS is a dynamic systems integrator established in 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 47 years. Our ability to hire and retain quality people in a rapidly evolving IT market is proven through our employee retention rate averaging over 3 years. At SMS, we place a high value on quality of service, customer satisfaction, and best-of-breed policies and practices, resulting in CMMI Level 3 certification and ISO registrations including 9001:2015, 20000-1:2018, and ISO/IEC 27001:2013. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. 

SMS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.