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# Security Specialist - Security Ops Analyst

- **Company:** AMERICAN SYSTEMS
- **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $132,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Process Modeling, Cyber Security
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9072922/security-specialist-security-ops-analyst

## About the Role

* Master's degree from an accredited college or university in a relevant discipline and 10 years of directly relevant experience; or a bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline plus 14 years of directly related work experience.
 * Specialized experience with business modeling and simulation
 * Specialized experience with flag-officer level briefings and senior-level interface
 * Three years' general security experience
 * Experience must include support to Special Access Program and Sensitive Compartmented Information environments
 * Demonstrated ability to coordinate effectively across Government, contractor, and external stakeholders; prepare briefings, reports, standard operating procedures, and official correspondence; and lead a team in fast paced classified environments.
 * Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; must be able to meet any applicable Special Access Program eligibility requirements identified by the Government.

## Description

As The Security Specialist Security Operations Analyst, you will:

 * Apply structured analysis, business modeling, and process evaluation to improve security operations and leadership decision-making.
 * Examine workflows, workloads, performance data, trends, dependencies, and recurring issues across multiple security areas.
 * Develop analytical products that strengthen situational awareness, identify opportunities for improvement, and support planning, prioritization, and resource decisions.
 * By combining security-domain knowledge with quantitative and qualitative analysis, the Security Specialist Security Operations Analyst helps leaders understand operational conditions and evaluate potential courses of action.
 * Maintain defensible methods, communicates findings clearly, and tracks whether recommended changes produce the intended operational results.

Essential Responsibilities:

 * Analyze security workflows, workload data, performance indicators, trends, and recurring operational issues.
 * Develop business models, simulations, scenarios, and other structured analyses to support security planning and decisions.
 * Evaluate process effectiveness and identify bottlenecks, control gaps, resource constraints, and improvement opportunities.
 * Prepare analytical reports, visual summaries, briefings, decision papers, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
 * Maintain data sets, assumptions, methodologies, and supporting documentation used in recurring security analysis.
 * Coordinate with security specialists and operational teams to validate data, interpret findings, and assess practical effects.
 * Monitor implementation outcomes and measure whether approved process changes improve performance or reduce risk.
 * Provide timely analytical support for emerging requirements, leadership data calls, and operational planning activities


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