TSCM / IPMS Technician
Company: Leidos
Location: Florissant
Posted on: September 13, 2023
Job Description:
Description Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?At
Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our
diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers'
success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and
operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to
do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our
community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do
business.If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can
thrive, keep reading!Leidos Intelligence Group uses a wide range of
capabilities in Digital Modernization, Mission Software Systems,
and enabling technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning to support our customers' mission to defend against
evolving threats around the world. Our team's focus is ensuring our
intelligence customers have the right tools, technologies, and
tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and
succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets.Your
greatest work is ahead!Leidos is hiring for a TSCM / IPMS
Technician to support the customer's Wireless Security Program. You
will ensure the In-Place Monitoring System (IPMS) console is
staffed at a rate equal to 75% of available contractor hours for
each of two assigned technicians, during normal established day
shift duty hours (to be coordinated with government leads). You
will ensure 90% of all signals and anomalies that meet the
established threat threshold are resolved within timeframes
established by the Customer TSCM Program Manager. Practitioners
must update and report IPMS console health status when operational
capability is equal to or less than 90%. You will ensure all
required reports are complete with minimal errors and that all
processes, activities, and report are conducted within established
time frames and ensure required Hazard reporting and annual
training requirements are conducted and completed according to DoD
policies and those of the Customer TSCM Program Manager. This
position is contingent upon contract award.What you'll be
doing:
- Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair the garrison IPMS,
resolve and coordinate IPMS anomalies with garrison TSCM
personnel.
- Research and investigate new or improved industry practices and
tradecraft for application to the above agency
programs/operations.
- Review after action and investigative reports to determine if
changes or corrective action is required and develop new or
modified administrative program policies, regulations, goals, or
objectives, and complete and maintain IPMS projects according to
time-tables established internally.
- Conduct Daily IPMS activities. Those duties include:
- Perform daily tactical analysis according to procedure guide
and established timeframes.
- Perform strategic analysis according to procedure guide and
within established timeframes.
- Perform daily, monthly and annual operations and maintenance
tasks according to established policies and timeframes.
- Troubleshoot and repair system malfunctions and report
findings/status to customer.
- Perform Radio Frequency signal of interest searches. Those
duties include:
- Assess and locate signals of interested discovered during
surveys, system notification and IPMS operations.
- Collaborate with appropriate entities to develop wireless
security systems. Identify potential enterprise and tactical
wireless security systems.
- Develop, update and maintain wireless security concept of
operations.
- Identify potential opportunities for partnership across the
Agency for wireless security concerns.
- Recommend and provide guidance for Agency security elements.
Those duties include:
- Provide recommendations and guidance for new process and
systems.
- Assist in determining best practices related to IPMS and
wireless efforts.
- Be very familiar with current TSCM and CI policies.
- Ensure IPMS technicians understand and comply with IPMS
regulations.
- Ensure the reporting, and reporting of IPMS issues discovered
during the conduct of IPMS operations.
- Provide recommendations and guidance for Customer facilities
under construction.
- Analyze complex physical and technical security issues and
provide cost-effective recommendations that meet policy
requirements.
- Ensure Customer compliance with ICD 705, Physical Security
Standards for SCIFs, and DoD standards for collateral areas.
- Identify physical and acoustical security deficiencies and
develop corrective actions to mitigate the identified
deficiencies.
- Coordinate the actions of teams, projects, and/or initiatives
that cover the entire spectrum of the mission of Technical
Operations Branch and the TSCM mission to ensure they meet, and are
consistent with, Customer's mission, vision, goals, values, and
operational structure, and the organization, mission and goals of
the National and DoD CI communities. In the course of the above,
analyze and evaluate proposed changes in mission, operating
procedures and delegations of authority.
- Coordinate IPMS operations, to include internal and external
correspondence, resource allocation, personnel management,
inventory control system, training program and policy development
(requires extensive coordination and liaison not only within
Customer, but external to Customer as well with DoD, IC agencies,
and the military services).
- Provide input on financial budgeting criteria and Program
Objective Memorandum (POM) submissions, including funding for
projects necessary to further the research and development of
technical requirements to ensure technological advantage is
maintained.
- Conduct IPMS operations consistent with National and DoD
policies governing the employment of TSCM tactics, techniques, and
procedures.
- Ensure all personnel assigned to the IPMS mission are trained
in accordance with National standards for the conduct of TSCM
operations and are qualified to operate the in-garrison IPMS.
- Generate finished correspondence, documents, briefing
materials, spread sheets and threat reports in accordance with
Customer guidelines, as required.
- Prepare specialized technical risk assessment products, TSCM
reports of inquiry, after action reports, tailored briefings, and
other administrative communication necessary to support the CI
mission.
- Provide technical advice and assistance as it relates to CI and
TSCM.
- Assist Certified TEMPEST Technical Authority (CTTA) with
technical security plans, policy and execution; assess electronic
processing equipment for security vulnerabilities.What does Leidos
need from me?
- Top Secret/SCI ( TS/SCI) security clearance required. Candidate
will be subject to a Polygraph examination.
- Minimum of seven years CI experience, of which at least five of
those years include federal TSCM experience.
- Experience operating an automated campus-wide IPMS system;
experience with RF theory and RF direction-finding
- Interagency Training Center (ITC) TSCM Certification and
complete at least 40 hours of discipline-specific development or
refresher training every fiscal year. The training delivery may
include classroom, on-line, or commercially-available training, or
exercise. The Customer customer will sponsor Government-offered,
discipline-specific development or refresher training IAW National
and DoD standards. However, Customer will NOT sponsor TSCM
Fundamentals certification as this is a requirement on day 1. The
contractor will be responsible for funding associated with this
certification and all commercial-offered training.
- TSCM Cyber certification (TSCM Fundamentals graduation will
suffice, with an expectation for "TSCM for Information Systems"
(ITC) or equivalent)
- A+, Network+, and Sec+ Certifications in accordance with DoD
8140 requirements.
- Telephone security experience (i.e. with Telephone Security
Group (TSG) requirements).
- RF Engineering background, and be a credentialed graduate of an
accredited federal or DoD CI training academy.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a
related technical discipline.Favorable if you have:
- Possess post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering,
or a related technical discipline. Pay Range: Pay Range $78,000.00
- $120,000.00 - $162,000.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level
is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or
salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include
(but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education,
experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal
equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement
(if any), or other law.
Keywords: Leidos, Florissant , TSCM / IPMS Technician, Professions , Florissant, Missouri
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