FISMA Compliance Analyst

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Must be clearable to the Top Secret level.

Compliance supports overall goals on a continual basis is to assist with ensuring that TSA achieves passing or better compliance ratings by the department by adhering to federal and DHS requirements. The contractor shall provide support services required to execute the day to day FISMA operations, ensuring that all FISMA activities are prioritized correctly, completed on schedule, and are in accordance with DHS and TSA policies. The Contractor shall research major obstacles related to the DHS ever-changing FISMA requirements, which TSA will need to overcome on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. These issues consist of, but are not limited to, tracking whether TSA information systems have mitigated their weaknesses on time using the appropriate processes, ATO expirations, tracking completeness of annual requirements such as 800-53As and Contingency Plan Test Results, and validating the quality of TSA system artifacts. FISMA activities are mandated by, and must be executed according to the DHS Information Security Performance Plan for each fiscal year.

The individual shall:
Assist the Branch Chief in the day to day execution of the TSA FISMA Compliance program.
Assist in executing the department‟s annual Information Security Performance Plan.
Assist with managing the TSA official IT Systems inventory.
Utilize and manage the department enterprise wide applications Trusted Agent FISMA (TAF) tool and Risk Management System (RMS) to assist in executing the department information security performance plan.
As requested by client, create briefings and reports pertaining to daily, weekly, monthly, or annual activities within the Compliance branch.
Assist with updating and executing the TSA FISMA Program.
Assist in executing the department‟s annual Information Security Performance Plan.
Assist in the managing of the TSA official IT Systems inventory.
Provide feedback to management on the functionality of the department enterprise. wide applications: Trusted Agent FISMA Tool and Risk Management System (RMS).
Research the major obstacles related to DHS ever-changing FISMA requirements.
Review C&A documentation at an average of at least 1 C&A package per week.
Review and validate Phase I security artifacts uploaded to the Trusted Agent FISMA tool.
Provide feedback on monitoring duties for a workload of approximately 10 systems and assist in maintaining security compliance for 80+ operational TSA IT Systems.
Assist with conducting two inter-departmental/federal outreach efforts annually to assist other agencies with varying issues regarding their C&A programs.
Advise and assist with changes to the FISMA Inventory to include the addition, deletion, and modification of the 80+ TSA IT Systems, create/manage TAF/RMS accounts to include the addition and modification of 60+ user accounts.
Provide one-on-one training to TAF and RMS users as directed by branch chief.