What are the responsibilities and job description for the Security Control Assessor Practitioner position at Ease Learning?
Description
Role Overview
Ease Learning is seeking a qualified Subject Matter Expert (SME) with applied, real-world experience in Security Control Assessor to participate in a skills assessment validation engagement. This is a short-term, contract, remote engagement in which the SME will complete a practitioner-level skills assessment and a brief post-assessment survey. This role does not involve teaching, instructional design, content creation, or ongoing advisory responsibilities.
Engagement Details
Engagement Type: Contract / 1099 – Short-term engagement
Location: Remote
Estimated Item Count: ~300
Estimated Time to Completion: Approximately 2–3 hours
Assessment Window: Work must be completed within a defined access window (typically 5 business days once access is granted)
Scope of Work
Required Expertise
The practitioner should be a current practitioner with applied, real-world experience related to the following knowledge areas and skills:
Participants must demonstrate baseline practitioner competency on the assessment. This threshold is used solely to ensure valid practitioner-level participation and is not used for hiring, ranking, or performance evaluation.
Role Overview
Ease Learning is seeking a qualified Subject Matter Expert (SME) with applied, real-world experience in Security Control Assessor to participate in a skills assessment validation engagement. This is a short-term, contract, remote engagement in which the SME will complete a practitioner-level skills assessment and a brief post-assessment survey. This role does not involve teaching, instructional design, content creation, or ongoing advisory responsibilities.
Engagement Details
Engagement Type: Contract / 1099 – Short-term engagement
Location: Remote
Estimated Item Count: ~300
Estimated Time to Completion: Approximately 2–3 hours
Assessment Window: Work must be completed within a defined access window (typically 5 business days once access is granted)
Scope of Work
- Complete a practitioner-level skills assessment used for validation and standard-setting purposes.
- Complete a short post-assessment survey providing feedback on the assessment experience.
- Teaching or facilitation responsibilities
- Instructional or curriculum design work
- Content authoring or SME review of materials
- Ongoing advisory or consulting responsibilities
Required Expertise
The practitioner should be a current practitioner with applied, real-world experience related to the following knowledge areas and skills:
- Develop methods to monitor and measure risk, compliance, and assurance efforts
- Develop specifications ensuring risk, compliance, and assurance efforts conform with security, resilience, and dependability requirements
- Draft statements of preliminary or residual security risks for system operation
- Maintain information systems assurance and accreditation materials
- Monitor and evaluate system compliance with IT security, resilience, and dependability requirements
- Conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) for appropriate security controls protecting PII
- Perform validation steps comparing actual results with expected results and analyze differences
- Plan and conduct security authorization reviews and assurance case development
- Provide accurate technical evaluation of software, systems, or networks documenting security posture and vulnerabilities
- Recommend new or revised security, resilience, and dependability measures based on review results
- Verify application/network/system security postures are implemented as stated and document deviations
- Develop security compliance processes and/or audits for external services (e.g., cloud providers, data centers)
- Knowledge of computer networking concepts, protocols, and network security methodologies
- Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk)
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, cyber threats, and vulnerabilities
- Knowledge of cyber defense and vulnerability assessment tools, including open source tools
- Knowledge of organization's evaluation and validation requirements
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles used to manage risks related to use, processing, storage, and transmission of data
- Knowledge of known vulnerabilities from alerts, advisories, errata, and bulletins
- Knowledge of IT security principles and methods (e.g., firewalls, DMZs, encryption)
- Knowledge of current industry methods for evaluating and implementing IT security assessment and monitoring tools
- Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, XSS, SQL injection)
- Skill in determining how a security system should work including resilience and dependability capabilities
- Skill in discerning protection needs (security controls) of information systems and networks
- Knowledge of network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components (e.g., defense-in-depth, Zero Trust)
- Knowledge of relevant laws, policies, procedures related to critical infrastructure
- Knowledge of risk assessments and authorization per Risk Management Framework processes
- Knowledge of penetration testing principles, tools, and techniques
- Knowledge of security architecture concepts and enterprise architecture reference models
- Knowledge of security models (e.g., Bell-LaPadula, Biba, Clark-Wilson)
- Active practitioner with hands-on experience in Security Control Assessor or closely related domains.
- Practical, working knowledge of how the concepts listed above are applied in real professional settings.
- Does not need to be an academic researcher or industry thought leader — applied experience is what matters.
Participants must demonstrate baseline practitioner competency on the assessment. This threshold is used solely to ensure valid practitioner-level participation and is not used for hiring, ranking, or performance evaluation.