MISSING LINK SECURITY™ is a highly motivated, energetic team of professionals. We provide the opportunity to work with customers on the cutting edge of security technology solutions and to join the BEST I.T. Security consulting team.
Below is a list of positions for which we are currently recruiting. If you are a security professional or application developer who is customer focused, team oriented and can pass strict background checks or already has qualified clearances, please submit your resume to jobs@missinglinksecurity.com. Please address all emails with:
“ATTN: Resume—Job Title” in the subject line.
Certification & Accreditation Engineer
Positions Available
One (1) Senior
Four (4) Principle
One (1) Subject Matter Expert
Job Description
Provide technical support lead in the areas of vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, network security, product evaluation, and security implementation. Provide technical evaluations of customer systems and assists with making security improvements. Participates in design of information system contingency plans that maintain appropriate levels of protection and meet time requirements for minimizing operations impact to customer organization. Conducts security product evaluations, and recommends products, technologies and upgrades to improve the customer’s security posture. Conducts testing and audit log reviews to evaluate the effectiveness of current security measures.
Job Requirements
Citizenship: U.S. Citizens only
Clearance: Top Secret with a current SSBI (less than 5 years old)
Polygraph: Yes (CI)
Travel: Minimal
Required Skills
- College degree in IT or related field
- Experience with specific approaches such as DITSCAP, NIACAP, and DCID 6/3.
- Possess a firm understanding of the logical processes for certifying systems using both DITSCAP/NIACAP for non-SCI systems and DCID 6/3 for SCI systems
- Be able to work in a team environment but be capable of operating independently with regards to system characterization, assimilating the necessary security requirements, assessing compliance, making remediation and/or mitigation recommendations and drafting certification documents.
- Demonstrate a level of maturity in the contractor-client relationships that clearly reflects an appreciation for the client’s role.
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Information Assurance Engineer
Job Description
Provide technical support in the areas of vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, network security, product evaluation, and security implementation. Responsible for designing and implementing solutions for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive information. Provide technical evaluations of customer systems and assists with making security improvements. Participates in design of information system contingency plans that maintain appropriate levels of protection and meet time requirements for minimizing operations impact to customer organization. Conducts security product evaluations, and recommends products, technologies and upgrades to improve the customer's security posture. Conducts testing and audit log reviews to evaluate the effectiveness of current security measures.
Positions Available
One (1) Principle
Job Requirements
Citizenship: U.S. Citizens only
Clearance: Top Secret with a current SSBI (less than 5 years old)
Polygraph: Yes (CI)
Travel: Minimal
Required Skills
- College degree in IT or related field
- Experience with specific approaches such as DITSCAP, NIACAP, and DCID 6/3.
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Information Assurance Analyst
Job Description
The ISSO are responsible for ensuring the implementation of the Security Program developed by the Information System Security Manager for a particular system or systems. Additionally, the ISSO assists in the development and maintenance of the System Security Plan and Associated Documentation Ensuring the system is certified and accredited. ISSO are also responsible for evaluating known vulnerabilities to determine if additional safeguards are needed.
Positions Available
One (1) Subject Matter Expert
Job Requirements
Citizenship: U.S. Citizens only
Clearance: Top Secret with a current SSBI (less than 5 years old)
Polygraph: Yes (CI)
Travel: Minimal
Required Skills
- College degree in IT or related field
- Experience with specific approaches such as DITSCAP, NIACAP, and DCID 6/3.
- Possess a firm understanding of the logical processes for certifying systems using both DITSCAP/NIACAP for non-SCI systems and DCID 6/3, DCID 6/9 for SCI systems and facilities.
- Be able to work in a team environment but be capable of operating independently with regards to system characterization, assimilating the necessary security requirements, assessing compliance, making remediation and/or mitigation recommendations and drafting certification documents.
- Demonstrate a level of maturity in the contractor-client relationships that clearly reflects an appreciation for the client's role.
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Application Security Engineer
Job Description
Provide technical support in the areas of vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, network security, product evaluation, and security implementation. Responsible for designing and implementing solutions for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive information. Provide technical evaluations of customer systems and assists with making security improvements. Participates in design of information system contingency plans that maintain appropriate levels of protection and meet time requirements for minimizing operations impact to customer organization. Conducts security product evaluations, and recommends products, technologies and upgrades to improve the customer's security posture. Conducts testing and audit log reviews to evaluate the effectiveness of current security measures.
Job Requirements
Citizenship: U.S. Citizens only
Clearance: Top Secret with a current SSBI (less than 5 years old)
Polygraph: Yes (CI)
Travel: None
Required Skills
- B.S. or equivalent experience.
- CISSP, CISA, CBCP, or similar professional certifications.
- Minimum: 3-5 years working in an Internet environment as a web developer and/or web administrator.
- Working knowledge of C&A process.
- Ability to develop security baseline strategies and security methodologies.
- Demonstrated project management and leadership skills.
- Strong technical, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
- Vulnerability Assessments-Network, Host, & Application-levels
- Operating System and Application Hardening
- Security Audit experience
- Communication: solid written and verbal skills, ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical individuals.
Desired Skills
- Installed/configured/administered web/app servers (Apache, SunOne, IIS, Tomcat, JBoss) on either Unix/Linux and/or Windows.
- In-depth understanding of (as many of the following as possible): Java, Java Server Pages (JSP), Java Beans, XML, C++, PHP, Jakarta Struts, Active Server Pages (ASP), VB Script, Javascript, HTML/DHTML, SQL, Cold Fusion
- Knowlegde Of: C&A and web security; other tech skills - TCP/IP, Networking/Network Architecture. Perl, Shell Scripting, Macromedia Flash, IBM Websphere 5.1, Oracle, Other Databases
- Knowledge of N-tier object-oriented development using a combination of Java, Visual Basic, ASP, HTML, VBScript and JavaScript.
- Web development: Developed technical architecture of web sites including scripting, database design, and user interface design.
- C&A and web security
- Other tech skills: TCP/IP, Networking/Network Architecture, Perl, Shell Scripting, Macromedia Flash, IBM Websphere 5.1, Oracle, Other Databases.
- Determined needs of and implemented security for web projects.
- Perform system and integration testing of developed and integrated software.
- Troubleshoot web-based problems and issues.
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Information Technology Security Operations Specialist
Job Description
Information Technology Security Operations Specialist will provide assistance to client managers in development, review and evaluation of procedures being utilized by the agency. Using knowledge of government IT policy, standards, and experience in implementation, administration and operation of various IT security monitoring technologies. The candidate will assist client management in developing and communicating requirements for documentation of:
IT Security Operations
IT Security Monitoring
IT Personnel Training
Job Requirements
Citizenship: U.S. Citizens only
Clearance: Top Secret with current SSBI (less than 5 years old)
Polygraph: Yes (CI)
Required Skills
- College degree in IT or related field
- Excellent writing skills, and a proven capability to document procedures used in IT Security Operations
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in IT administration and/or security operations
- Minimum of four (4) years of experience in Computer Security
- Incident Response Team (CSIRT), Network Intrusion Detection
- Systems (NIDS), Host Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS), Vulnerability Scanning Systems (VSS), and Security Information Management Systems (SIMS)
- Minimum of (2) years of experience in each of the following:
Procedure development and documentation of IT Security Operations
Analysis and report development
Operation and tuning of NIDS, HIDS and SIMS
Desired Skills
- Industry certification in standard technologies is desired
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