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Lead Security Specialist
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission · Posted 80 days ago
About the Role
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is ranked within the top 5 mid-size agencies as a "Best Places to Work" in the Federal government! This Lead Security Specialist position is located in the Office of the Executive Director. For more information visit: Office of the Executive Director (OED) | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
What You'll Do
- →As a Lead Security Specialist some of your typical work assignments include: Demonstrating mastery in planning, integrating, and overseeing complex, multi-disciplinary security programs-including protecting NSI, COMSEC accountability, OPSEC governance, Insider Threat mitigation, and SCIF accreditation.
- →Applying expert knowledge of Executive Orders, Intelligence Community directives, DOE/IN requirements, and national security regulations to develop, interpret, and implement agency-level security policies.
- →Exercising full technical independence in directing security program objectives, resolving interagency jurisdictional gaps, and ensuring the reliability, compliance, and operational readiness of secure facilities, systems, and classified processes.
- →Expertly interpret, reconcile, and apply a wide range of evolving, and often conflicting, national-level security directives to agency operations.
- →Develop new policies, SOPs, and operational protocols where precedent is lacking, ensuring Commission programs comply with ODNI, DOE, DHS, NSA, DoD, and Intelligence Community standards.
- →Provide authoritative guidance on regulatory requirements, derivative classification, SCIF lifecycle management, and COMSEC/SCI program compliance, influencing policy decisions across internal and external stakeholders.
- →Conduct complex threat, vulnerability, and risk assessments across multiple security disciplines, identifying exposures impacting classified operations, personnel security, and sensitive information systems.
- →Develop and implement innovative countermeasures, integrate behavioral and technical indicators for Insider Threat detection, and lead security inspections, investigations, and corrective actions.
- →Oversee the evaluation of security incidents, insider-risk events, COMSEC anomalies, and OPSEC vulnerabilities, ensuring mitigation strategies strengthen agency-wide security posture and continuity of operations.
- →Lead collaboration and negotiation with senior officials, interagency partners (e.g., DOE-IN, ODNI, DHS, CIA), contractors, and technical specialists to resolve complex security, compliance, and operational issues.
- →Coordinate maintenance and service delivery for secure IT systems with multiple external providers, ensuring system uptime despite ambiguous or overlapping responsibilities.
- →Influence decision-making in high-stakes environments by articulating security requirements, resolving disputes, guiding personnel on clearance matters, and representing the agency in interagency councils and working groups.
Requirements
- ✓There is no education requirement for this position; therefore, transcripts are not required.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 37c09151-6e34-4229-8210-c46f26a1b853
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