Duties

There are a variety of Cybersecurity Risk Management and Compliance opportunities across the Department, including supporting several specialized programs at the DHS Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans (PLCY), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

As an employee in the Development Track, you will continually and proactively participate in learning activities to enhance and apply your developing expertise in the technical capability of Cybersecurity Risk Management and Compliance to perform a range of routine tasks, including:

• Applying intermediate-level technical expertise to perform progressively difficult evaluation, documentation, validation, assessment, and authorization processes necessary to ensure that existing and new information technology systems meet the Department's cybersecurity and risk requirements, providing decision makers with the knowledge to make well-informed risk decisions.
• Proactively considering risk assumptions and organizational tolerance for risk to inform strategic decision making.
• Routinely monitoring adverse impacts or consequences to DHS and customizing communications to present recommendations to stakeholders for managing risk to DHS mission, function, image, reputation, assets, individuals, and/or organizations.
• Researching recommendations and potential solutions to inform policy decisions for determining adverse impact or consequences to the organization to guide and inform subsequent risk management processes and tasks.
• Proactively seeking opportunities to collaborate with and assist others within or across multiple organizations to identify, select, tailor, implement, document, and assess the security and privacy controls necessary to protect a system and/or the organization commensurate with the risk to organizational operations and assets.
• Learning and supporting routine treatment of risk, compliance, and assurance from internal and external perspectives, reporting on the security state of systems to appropriate organizational stakeholders.
• Working with HQ and/or Component experts to monitor and maintain ongoing situational awareness about the security and privacy posture of systems and/or the organization in support of risk management decisions.
• Proactively performing routine risk assessment and compliance activities to determine levels of risk, tolerance for policy, and determine policy impact on strategy.