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ABOUT US:
Pole Star Defense is a leading provider of maritime domain awareness, maritime security, and fisheries monitoring systems to the government sector. Since 1998, we have pushed the limits of innovation, mitigating growing threats to ships, supply chains, cargo, territorial waters and, most importantly, safety of lives at sea and beyond. Today, we continue to develop and implement pioneering intelligence technologies to protect customer vessels, people, maritime domain, and reputation.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Pole Star Defenses Cybersecurity Manager will play an integral part in the organizations success by ensuring all security programs, tools, and technologies are effective, efficient, and providing the necessary protection to the companys networks, digital communications, and databases. This position will focus on proactively setting up defenses against threats and responding to security breaches if they occur. The ideal candidate will have a technical skillset encompassing network intrusion prevention, vulnerability scans, and analyzation of network activity, among others. They should be a strategic thinker with the ability to work as part of a team and provide appropriate guidance in high-pressure situations. The ability to interact with Pole Star personnel, build strong relationships at all levels and across departments, and understand business imperatives will be paramount.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Safeguards information system assets by identifying and solving potential and actual security problems
• Protects systems by defining access privileges, control structures, and resources
• Recognizes problems by identifying abnormalities; reporting violations
• Determines security violations and inefficiencies by conducting periodic audits
• Creates and maintains information security policies and procedures to protect physical and cloud (AWS) enterprise systems
• Maintains all security tools and technology
• Implement new security technologies while remaining within reasonable budget and implementing controls that might mitigate the risks of its operation
• Fosters a culture of physical and digital security awareness by conducting training sessions and communicating with personnel
• Assesses security plans for existing vulnerabilities in order to safeguard the company and its assets
• Implements procedures and methods for auditing and addressing non-compliance to cybersecurity standards
• Detail out a security incident response program

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience in supporting previous FedRAMP, NIST, ISO, SOC2, or other similar governance and compliance frameworks
• Ability to research and stay up to date with security trends and changing government and state laws as they relate to security policies
• 1-3 years in a supervisory capacity
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to work effectively across department lines
• Innovative thinker that can safeguard Pole Star networks while also enabling engineering teams to keep delivering business as usual
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve strategic goals
• Exceptionally organized and detail oriented
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors Degree in Cybersecurity or relevant experience
• Certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCSK, CCSP, or other related)

DESIRED SKILLS (Not Required but nice to have)

• Masters Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field
• AWS Security Certifications (i.e., Solutions Architect)
• Experience working with DHS or DoD

TRAVEL REQUIRED: Ability for up to 10% travel both domestic and international.

Benefits

Pole Star Defense offers benefits that are designed to lead an evolving marketplace and encourage a healthy balance between work and life. Highlights of those benefits are listed below

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Disability insurance for employees and dependents (100% covered by company)
• Life insurance, company funded to 3x salary
• 20 days annual leave (can buy or sell more days)
• Up to a 10% Annual bonus available
• Up to a 5% 401K matching
• Gym membership subsidy
• Volunteer Day PTO
• Refer-a-friend recruitment bonus

WORK SCHEDULE NOTE: While this position is scheduled for a traditional Monday Friday work week, our systems run 24/7/365 and as such, you may be expected to perform out of hours, on-call support on an as needed basis. This may include weekends and/or holidays and is worked on a rotation system with other team members. Additional compensation may be available for working on-call, standby or holiday hours

This is a Public Trust position and requires completion of a State and Federal Criminal History Report (i.e., background check) and may require a Department of Defense security clearance. Current and future employment will be contingent upon satisfactory completion of both the FBI Summary History Report and if designated, a DoD security clearance

This position requires use of or access to information subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Accordingly, all applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of these regulations. Under ITAR, a U.S. person is defined as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, or a person who is a protected individual under the immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))

Pole Star Defense is a U.S. Government contractor and is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans

COVID 19 CONSIDERATIONS

Pole Star Defense follows all local and federal guidelines on how to best protect its employees, visitors, and guests from the COVID 19 virus. This includes following guidance and implementing policies set forth by the CDC, WHO and OSHA.