Information System Security Manager (ISSM)

**Position Is Contingent Upon Award**

Peraton Labs is hiring an Information System Security Manager (ISSM) to be the single point of contact to Covered California and the accountable owner of oversight timely execution and quality for every security service Peraton delivers to the California health benefit exchange and the CalHEERS eligibility and enrollment system. You will lead a small senior multi-disciplinary security team spanning governance and compliance security architecture and engineering incident response third-party risk technical security monitoring and data protection.

You will work directly with Covered Californias CISO and Information Security Officer technical and project teams business stakeholders and independent assessors. The goal is to keep a system that carries the personal health and financial information of millions of Californians measurably secure continuously compliant with NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 ARC-AMPE and IRS Publication 1075 and ready for CMS Authority to Connect review.

What You Will Do In This Role:

• Lead the security team. Manage and coordinate the day-to-day activities of assigned information security personnel; provide leadership mentoring and direction and own deliverable accuracy consistency and schedule adherence across all seven contracted service areas.
• Serve as the primary client security liaison. Act as the single operational point of contact among contractor personnel Covered California security leadership technical teams project teams and business stakeholders and deliver regular status risk and escalation reporting to security leadership.
• Own the compliance and GRC engine. Manage security activities tied to NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls; coordinate development and review of security policies procedures standards and plans; direct GRC activities and platforms; and maintain the risk register.
• Drive risk down to closure. Oversee risk assessments control reviews gap analyses and remediation; track weaknesses findings and Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) through verified closure.
• Serve as backup incident manager. Support the incident response program in coordination with the client Information Security Officer and coordinate investigations evidence handling communications escalation reporting and post-incident review; participate in the on-call incident response rotation.
• Coordinate technical and third-party security work. Guide security architecture and engineering reviews across cloud and on-premises environments and technical security work spanning network endpoint vulnerability management identity and access management cloud and application security; manage vendor security due diligence assessments contract and control reviews and monitoring.
• Coordinate assessment and penetration testing logistics while preserving assessor independence. Provide evidence scheduling and remediation ownership for the annual independent assessment and penetration test cycle without directing or influencing the independent assessors scope judgments or findings.

Required:

• Bachelors degree in cybersecurity computer science information systems information technology or lieu of a degree an equivalent combination of education professional certification and additional relevant experience will be considered.
• 12 years of progressively responsible cybersecurity experience including managing security programs teams or major security workstreams. (Note: eight years is the absolute floor for equivalency consideration; the posted target is 12.)
• Active CISSP or CISM certification.
• Demonstrated experience managing security activities against the NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 control set in a complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning a risk register and managing POA&Ms findings and corrective action plans through closure using an enterprise GRC platform or comparable control-tracking system.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor senior technical personnel while working collaboratively with client stakeholders and to brief cybersecurity risk credibly to both technical and executive audiences in writing and in person.
• US Citizenship and the abillity to pass a California criminal background clearance (Gov. Code 1043 / 10 CCR 6456) before starting work or accessing any confidential information PII PHI federal tax information or financial information.

Desired:

• Masters degree in cybersecurity computer science information systems or a related discipline.
• PMP certification. CGRC CRISC or CCSP are also valued.
• Hands-on experience with ARC-AMPE (ACA Medicaid and Partner Entities) security and privacy requirements.
• Experience with IRS Publication 1075 compliance and federal tax information (FTI) control management.
• Experience with CMS cybersecurity requirements and the CMS Authority to Connect (ATC) process or comparable federal authorization processes.
• Experience supporting healthcare eligibility and enrollment Medicaid or health insurance exchange systems of CalHEERS scale.
• Experience supporting annual security and privacy assessments including CMS Security Assessment Workbooks (SAWs) security assessment reports POA&Ms and control evidence packages.
• Experience in California state government or comparable public-sector cybersecurity environments.

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