CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
Security Operations Engineering Pre-solicitation:
Scope of work:
The candidate shall perform the tasks listed below consistent with instructions and guidance provided by the Contracting Officer?s Representative and by providing advice, opinions, recommendations, or ideas to CBO employees.
- Ensure compliance with security policies, develop and update IT security documentation, provide related status reports, briefings, schedules, and project plans in written form.
- Plan and implement security reviews for changes impacting hardware, software, baselines, connections, or applications.
- Collaborate with staff to plan and implement new firewall architectures, upgrades and features as necessary.
- Assist in the administration of all firewalls to include updates, upgrades, policy administration, and validation.
- Perform other security related tasks, including vulnerability scanning and log management.
- Assist in reviewing and implementing customer changes consistent with existing policies.
- Review and update documentation to ensure consistency with current procedures.
- Manage and tune additional software blades associated with firewall architecture (IPS, URL, Application Control, AV, Advanced Malware detection).
- Follow industry best practices, NIST SP 800-53, and agency security policy standards to identify gaps and inefficiencies in the security infrastructure and provide options for resolving them.
- Make recommendations to modernize CBO?s security infrastructure in a more effective and efficient manner.
- Explain new security requirements to IRM&TS staff and contractors to support implementation.
- Work outside of normal business hours to support outage resolution, planned maintenance, or to implement an upgrade.
- Perform other related duties.