ACS Professional Staffing

Perform quarterly review of users with authorized cyber access to systems and unescorted physical access to Critical Cyber Assets (CCA), Access and Control Monitoring (ACM) Cyber Assets.. Draft and recommend processes and procedures to support NERC mandatory reliability standards, Department of Energy (DOE) National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), and FISMA security requirements for review; final documents will be reviewed and approved by staff.. Process requests for cyber, physical, or logical access within the guidelines and regulations defined by NERC CIP standards, policy, and control center procedures.. Coordinate with the Security and Compliance Team (SCT) and the training office to verify completion of NERC-CIP training before granting new cyber, physical, or logical access and yearly to verify all current access grants maintain training requirements.. Because we are a federal government contractor, we have special restrictions placed on us for hiring foreign nationals into certain key positions within the company.

operations analyst

Overview: ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Operations Analyst position will use modeling techniques and optimizing methods to aid management in decision making, policy formulation, and process development. Responsibilities include data collection and analysis, workflow tracking, creating decision support documents, and developing optimal time, cost, and logistics methodologies. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA. Pay Rate: $44.16 - $63.09 <ul><li>Benefits: Paid holidays: 11 </li><li>PTO: Starting at 10 days </li><li>Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date) </li><li>EAP: Employee Assistance Program </li><li>Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%) </li><li>Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks </li></ul> Responsibilities: Program Support / Contract Lead:<ul><li>Understand TTO General Support System (GSS) structure and functional teams: Coordinate the TTO General Support System (GSS) structure and functional teams and facilitate developing program strategies to link with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) based accreditation GSS structure. </li><li>Provide project management support for compliance mitigation plans and asset strategy initiatives:</li><li>Track mitigation dates.</li><li>Follow-up with assigned resources to verify action items for mitigation plans are completed on-time.</li><li>Facilitate meetings to address questions related to compliance and asset strategy plans and initiatives.</li><li>Create reports and timelines detailing status of mitigation plan activities.</li><li>Perform quarterly review of users with authorized cyber access to systems and unescorted physical access to Critical Cyber Assets (CCA), Access and Control Monitoring (ACM) Cyber Assets. Verify accesses have been properly authorized per North American</li><li>Reliability Cooperation (NERC) standards and that access imprint remains accurate following pre-set guidelines and within established time constraints. </li><li>Lead / facilitate project initiatives and process improvement efforts arising from Process Support and Management team processes.</li><li>Encourage and validate team adherence to compliance processes on a daily basis; and develop work processes to improve the compliance posture of the company:</li></ul> Reliability Compliance:<ul><li>Provide monitoring, review, analysis, and support for the reliability program by verifying information is reliable, consistent, and useful. Analysis includes potential impacts to transmission programs and processes.</li><li>Provide recommendations to management to mitigate, comment on, or provide further review for NERC and Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) proposed rulemaking and policies.</li><li>Utilize TT’s library publishing process to verify documentation is up-to-date and of adequate quality; track data. Make recommendations for changing/enhancing organization and information navigation in TT’s library structure.</li><li>Draft and recommend processes and procedures to support NERC mandatory reliability standards, Department of Energy (DOE) National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), and FISMA security requirements for review; final documents will be reviewed and approved by staff.</li><li>Provide quality assurance support to verify that vetted and established compliance standards and guidelines are followed and alert the manager of any noted concerns or potential issues.</li><li>Provide support to the NERC annual certification process and any other spot audit or compliance requests.</li></ul> Data Call and Survey Coordination:<ul><li>Provide direct support for data calls and industry surveys. This consists of review and analysis of existing documentation and any new/changing requirements; confer with appropriate SMEs for input; and draft control center responses for management review. </li><li>Organize, monitor, analyze, and report on performance / metrics pertaining to data call artifacts collection and processes. </li><li>Maintain and update process artifacts, verifying they are up-to-date and of adequate quality (reliable, consistent, and useful).</li></ul> Information Quality Control and Stewardship:<ul><li>Inventory the information needs of control center’s business programs and functions. Analyze business processes to identify gaps in information quality control and quality assurance. Recommend cost effective changes in processes and procedures to address such gaps.</li><li>Provide input and recommendations regarding how information is organized and displayed in SharePoint and the CCN library. This might include the quality, type and security requirements of information included and retained. Coordinate with management/subject matter experts to ensure the information needs of the organization are being met in a useful and efficient manner. Assist with the implementation of approved courses of action. </li><li>Mark documents and maintain filing system(s), files, emails, and records in accordance with compliance requirements. Share and disperse documents only to appropriate personnel (those with a Lawful Government Purpose (LGP) to know). Mark and maintain all official records in accordance with the Information Security (INFOSEC) and Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM) standards and procedures. Validate official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes.</li></ul> Control Center Asset Strategy Support Lead:<ul><li>Provide primary back-up to the TTO portion of the control center asset strategy program. Review, analyze, evaluate, and organize program information to validate that it is reliable, consistent, and useful.</li><li>Provide budgetary tracking and analysis for services, equipment orders, O&M trending cost, and expense tail tracking.</li></ul> Security Privilege Coordination Lead:<ul><li>Process requests for cyber, physical, or logical access within the guidelines and regulations defined by NERC CIP standards, policy, and control center procedures.</li><li>Assist in tracking access (physical and cyber) privileges granted for the control center and maintain current system privilege, and resource manager information. </li><li>Coordinate with the Security and Compliance Team (SCT) and the training office to verify completion of NERC-CIP training before granting new cyber, physical, or logical access and yearly to verify all current access grants maintain training requirements.</li><li>Verify all request for cyber, physical, or logical access have a valid Personal Risk Assessment (PRA) by checking the Security Office PRA verification source of record or by contacting the security office directly.</li><li>Coordinate with customers on visitor access requests to the control centers.</li><li>Monitor Customer Relationship Management (CRM) cases assigned by the access revocation team for access privileges to be revoked or reviewed to determine whether revocation is required.</li><li>Review HRMIS/CCAR and other reports for access privileges to be revoked or reviewed to determine whether revocation is required.</li></ul> Data management:<ul><li>Gather and document reporting requirements and work with TT counterparts to develop data exchange and reporting solutions, using the CCN database, library systems, and other record stores.</li><li>Assist management in implementing and integration of automated data management procedures.</li><li>Collect, organize, and validate data and model results to establish data reporting completeness, accuracy, and quality.</li><li>Generate reports from various data repositories.</li><li>Assist management in implementing and integration of electronic reporting and customer interfaces for TTO supported services:</li><li>Research, analyze, model and organize information for developing, drafting, and recommending requirements. </li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>An associate or bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business management/administration, organizational development, or closely related technical discipline is preferred.</li><li>8 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor’s degree.</li><li>10 years of experience is required with an applicable associate degree.</li><li>12 years of experience is required with no degree or applicable degree. </li><li>Experience should be directly related to business and operations analysis and progressively more technical in nature.</li><li>5 years of experience with the following is required: </li><li>Experience in written communication and technical writing sufficient to interpret SME’s input and convert into meaningful performance target language.</li><li>Expert proficiency with presentation tools such as Visio, PowerPoint, etc.</li><li>Expert proficiency with data manipulation tools such as Excel, PowerBi, etc.</li><li>Experience developing professional presentations and delivering/presenting them at the executive level. </li><li>Expert proficiency in automated data systems to include SharePoint and Access or similar.</li><li>Valid U.S. Driver’s License is required.</li></ul> Work sponsorship is not available at this time. Third-party candidates will not be considered for this position. Because we are a federal government contractor, we have special restrictions placed on us for hiring foreign nationals into certain key positions within the company. This particular position requires U.S. citizenship. ACS Professional Staffing will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to the applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested. If you have any questions about the job posting, please contact recruiting@acsprostaffing.com If you have any questions about our Reasonable Accommodation Policy, please feel free to email hr@acsprostaffing.com

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