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# Systems Security Analyst

- **Company:** Nabout Leidos
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $69,550.0 - $125,725.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Access Network, Configuration Management, Cyber Security, Computer Networks, OSI Models, Key Management, Public Key Infrastructure, Software Systems, TCP/IP, System Availability, Firewalls (Computer Science), Cyber Warfare
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.military.com/career/366304/systems-security-analyst-texas-tx-san-antonio

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or a related field.\n
 * 3+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience.\n
 * Current Top Secret/SCI security clearance with ability to obtain additional or higher read-ins as required.\n
 * Must meet DoD 8140 / Defense Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF) Work Role 511 - Cyber Defense Analyst qualification requirements / IAT Level II certification.\n
 * Knowledge of encryption technologies and algorithms, including:\n, * Knowledge of IT security principles and methods, including firewalls, demilitarized zones, and encryption.\n
 * Knowledge of network access, identity, and access-management concepts, including Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).\n
 * Knowledge of operating systems.\n
 * Knowledge of network traffic and communications, including TCP/IP, the OSI model, and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) concepts.\n
 * Knowledge of how system components are installed, integrated, and optimized.\n
 * Knowledge of various computer architectures.\n
 * Knowledge of network-design processes, including security objectives, operational objectives, and associated tradeoffs.\n
 * Knowledge of network-analysis tools used to identify vulnerabilities.\n
 * Skill in designing integration of hardware and software solutions.\n
 * Ability to determine how a security system should operate, including resilience and dependability requirements, and assess how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment may affect system-security outcomes.\n

## Description

* Assess configuration management, change management, and release-management processes for security impact and compliance.\n
 * Develop procedures and support testing of system failover and transfer of operations to alternate sites based on system availability requirements.\n
 * Analyze and report organizational cybersecurity-posture trends.\n
 * Analyze and report system cybersecurity-posture trends.\n
 * Ensure system security operations and maintenance activities are properly documented and updated as required.\n
 * Evaluate cybersecurity-enabled products and compensating security controls to determine whether identified risk has been reduced to an acceptable level.\n
 * Assess access controls based on principles of least privilege and need-to-know.\n
 * Implement security measures to resolve vulnerabilities, mitigate risk, and recommend security changes to systems or system components as required.\n
 * Implement system security measures in accordance with established procedures to support confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation requirements.\n
 * Mitigate or correct security deficiencies identified during security or certification testing and recommend risk acceptance when appropriate for consideration by the authorized Government representative.\n
 * Verify minimum security requirements are implemented for applications and systems.\n
 * Plan and recommend system modifications or security adjustments based on exercise results or changes to the operating environment.\n
 * Maintain documentation of system security implementation, operations, and maintenance activities.\n
 * Provide cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and vulnerabilities.\n
 * Verify and update cybersecurity documentation to accurately reflect application and system security-design features.\n
 * Conduct research and analysis to support cybersecurity performance improvement and mission objectives.\n
 * Work independently and collaboratively with project, technical, cybersecurity, and Government stakeholders.\n
 * Perform other duties as assigned.\n