# SCA-R Validator

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Alexandria, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking multiple SCA-R Validators to assess programs' security posture and develop reports and recommendations for improvement. These positions can be based out of any of our three locations - Alexandria, VA, Odenton, MD, or Chambersburg, PA. These positions are primarily on-site, with some travel required to support our assessment team, up to 50% of the time. Per diem is provided while on travel.

Responsibilities:

- Use government-assigned tools to perform weekly updates, maintain records, and complete tasks.

- Coordinate with ISSMs and PMOs to understand mission and business functions, security architecture, deployment locations, and planned and projected architectural and functional changes of assigned systems.

- Conduct cybersecurity assessments, risk analyses (operational and technical) and authorization tasks across all RMF steps using approved RE5 tools and processes.

- Verify authorization boundaries and categorize systems (FIPS199).

- Identify data classifications and conduct system-level risk assessments.

- Track system changes, assess impacts, and report updates to the AO.

- Evaluate authorization and change requests, web filtering, firewall exceptions, ports/protocols, cybersecurity risks, STIG/SRG compliance, and on-site security.

- Lead assessment visits, conduct briefings, and ensure proper documentation and reporting.

- Attend required government training and meetings to stay updated on process changes.

- Maintain access and proficiency in required government databases and cybersecurity tools.

- Assess threats, vulnerabilities and cybersecurity risk for systems and compile findings into timely authorization packages to determine countermeasures and residual risk.

- Support assigned systems throughout their lifecycle in alignment with FISMA requirements.

- Submit weekly activity reports summarizing tasks, tracking IDs, and key updates.

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree (IT-related field preferred) and eight (8) years of cybersecurity or network security experience. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

- Active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required

- Current DoD 8570 IAM II or IAT II certification

- Five (5) years of experience in a Certification and Accreditation/A&A role

- Demonstrated experience with STIGs (Security Technical Implementation Guides), Security Requirement Guides (SRGs), Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) and cybersecurity best practices

- Advanced understanding of the RMF process, NIST SP 800- 37, NIST SP 800-53, CNSSI 1253

- Demonstratable experience in risk analysis, control validation, and as a Security Control Assessor Representative (SCA-R).

- Demonstrated experience with relevant tools such as eMASS, STIG Viewer, Nessus, ACAS, SCAP, or HBSS

- Advanced understanding of key technologies areas/domain such as: Network, Mobility, Windows, UNIX, Cloud Environments and Cloud Native Tools/Services, Host Based Security System (HBSS)/Endpoint Security Solutions (ESS), Databases, Applications

- Customer service skills

- Ability and willingness to travel for assessments as required

## Skills

### Required
- STIGs
- Security Requirement Guides (SRGs)
- Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms)
- RMF process
- NIST SP 800- 37
- NIST SP 800-53
- CNSSI 1253
- risk analysis
- control validation
- Security Control Assessor Representative (SCA-R)
- eMASS
- STIG Viewer
- Nessus
- ACAS
- SCAP
- HBSS

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