Data Security – Senior Overall Assignment Description: Develops and oversees the execution of long-term data security strategies to maximize systems, applications and infrastructure quality and efficiency. Provides technological, business and tactical guidance and leadership to the CDO/DCDO. Identifies opportunities for enhancing the Data security capabilities to support and achieve overall agency objectives. Assists the CDO with external industry boards or organizations. Duties include: Identifies opportunities for enhancing the data security capabilities to support and achieve overall agency objectives Identify improvements to processes and workflows, related to physical and logical data protection Collaborate with Information Security, Network Security and compliance teams to validate that Data security design, processes and procedures align with broader agency policies, standards and requirements. Plan and execute the protection of information found on NGA networks, working with employees to make sure they are educated on security protocol Participates in team discussions to understand and provide inputs to system security requirements Assists in leading day-to-day delivery to ensure team meets or exceeds service level obligations to internal customers. Provide work investigating complex technical matters on a global scale spanning multiple disciplines such as storage technologies, network security, identity management, data destruction methodologies, and workflow integration. Collaborates within team to clarify work objectives, address and resolve issues, and generate creative solutions to challenges and opportunities. Identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities and explain howto avoid them Skills and Experience: Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent Senior level experience as a Data Security Engineer Demonstrated experience in information security or related field Demonstrated experience developing data security standards Experience in application level, database, file system and full disk encryption Desired: Experience with Talend, Sqoop, AWS Glue or related data transformational tools Experience in Hadoop Experience in AWS (S3, RDS, CloudWatch, EC2, etc.) Experience in MPP databases (such as Aurora, Redshift, Snowflake, Netezza, Teradata, The contractor develops and oversees the execution of long-term data security strategies to maximize
systems, applications and infrastructure quality and efficiency. Provides technological, business and
tactical guidance and leadership to the CDO/DCDO. Identifies opportunities for enhancing the Data
security capabilities to support and achieve overall agency objectives. Assists the CDO with external
industry boards or organizations. Duties include:
• Identifies opportunities for enhancing the data security capabilities to support and achieve
overall agency objectives
• Identify improvements to processes and workflows, related to physical and logical data
protection
• Collaborate with Information Security, Network Security and compliance teams to validate
that Data security design, processes and procedures align with broader agency policies,
standards and requirements.
• Plan and execute the protection of information found on NGA networks, working with
employees to make sure they are educated on security protocol
• Participates in team discussions to understand and provide inputs to system security
requirements
• Assists in leading day-to-day delivery to ensure team meets or exceeds service level
obligations to internal customers.
• Provide work investigating complex technical matters on a global scale spanning multiple
disciplines such as storage technologies, network security, identity management, data
destruction methodologies, and workflow integration.
• Collaborates within team to clarify work objectives, address and resolve issues, and generate
creative solutions to challenges and opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities and explain how-to avoid them Gridiron IT Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status. Gridiron IT is a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) company specializing in IT Infrastructure, Cyber & Cloud Security, Software Development, and Enterprise Support. Gridiron is an Inc. 5000 2022 recipient and Washington Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies in the Greater Washington Area for 2022. Gridiron offers a competitive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, disability insurance, and pet insurance.