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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Cyber Mechanism Management SME to join our team!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Support the Government’s established Signature Reduction plans for current and future operations:

• Support the request, management, and deactivation of required signature reduction mechanisms. 

• Perform organizational, individual, and operational due diligence in accordance with DoD policies to maintain plans, mechanisms, and travel awareness. 

• Assist the Government with periodic command inspections of subordinate units for signature reduction-related programs, assist in determining operational validity and review of subordinate element Signature Reduction plans, and evaluate the sustainability of the unit’s signature reduction TTPs. 

• Draft responses to signature reduction requirements and assigned projects and engage associated organizations for support and collaborating or coordinating on externally generated requirements. 

• Review, refine, and provide recommendations to the Government lead referencing signature reduction programs, SOPs, and other regulatory documents for compliance with DoD policies and regulations.

Duties:

• Identify, evaluate, test, and provide recommendations for the employment of cyber mechanisms and capabilities to facilitate signature reduction activity and advanced OSINT collection operations. Evaluate managed attribution and data transport mechanisms to ensure appropriate, multi-hop data routing and host system-network disassociation, ensuring compliance with applicable DoD and Army policies and procedures. Analyze and characterize IP assignment and network/location alignment to ensure consistent digital signatures. Coordinate with mechanism providers to ensure adequate storage and retention of session data and artifacts (e.g., session cookies, session tokens); virtual desktop or machine-based application requirements and associated routing; session-based activity recording, indexing, and searchability; and available data transfer mechanisms to facilitate transfer of operationally-relevant content to the DoDIN. Coordinate with operational units to ensure mechanism employment is consistent with operational best practices and available security features. Where applicable, provide technical advice to AOO, Army leadership, applicable support offices, and mechanism providers on the development and expansion of data access via SIGREDUX capabilities, including platform authentication requirements, data subscriptions, and API tokens. Upon request, provide White Papers and comparative analyses of competing solutions, tradecraft best practices, and layered security solutions to optimize operational success while mitigating access risk and ensuring secure operations.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• TS/SCI clearance with SCI Eligibility

• Bachelors & 14+ years of experience, Masters & 12+ years of experience, or PhD or JD & 9+ years of experience

• Ability to analyze actual and predictable interacting operational activities of a military, governmental, or business system to obtain a qualitative or quantitative, rational basis for decision making, policies, or resource allocation in support of US Government policy goals and objectives.

• Must have specialized knowledge of IdM Doctrine, Organization, Training, Leader Development, Material, Personnel, & Facilities. Skills include judgment, experience, subject matter expertise, decision support tools, and basic to extremely complex modeling and measurement techniques, mathematics, statistical methods, and other principles in the professional body of knowledge in determining solutions.

• Skills to provide integral policy support in the capability development and integration of solutions and the conceptualization, design, development, testing, verification and validation, documentation, and implementation of modeling and simulation based decision support system applications.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.​

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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