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Job Summary:
K2 Space Corporation is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown, and they are seeking a COMSEC Manager to support their comprehensive security program. This role involves ensuring compliance with security requirements, managing COMSEC operations, and safeguarding classified information across multiple sensitivity levels.
Responsibilities:
• Lead and manage the organization's COMSEC program, ensuring compliance with national security policies, standards, and regulations (e.g., NIST, FIPS, DOW directives).
• Ensure compliance with company policies, industry regulations, and safety standards.
• Own COMSEC account management, custodian duties, and encryption device configuration and maintenance.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure integration of COMSEC measures into broader IT and security strategies.
• Provide expert advice and guidance on COMSEC issues to leadership, staff, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain a current inventory of all Controlled Cryptographic Items (CCI) material.
• Coordinate system maintenance, monitoring, and installation of COMSEC equipment across multiple WAN/LAN environments.
• Develop and maintain a roadmap for capabilities, operations, and technologies, including guidance on forecasting cryptographic equipment needs.
• Assist with the development and execution of test plans and supporting documentation for all communications security configuration upgrades, additions, or revisions, obtaining customer approval prior to implementation.
• Evaluate and recommend technology upgrades and changes to address performance, standardization, and industry best practices.
• Perform audits and assessments of COMSEC operations to ensure program effectiveness and efficiency.
• Maintain current knowledge of emerging threats and new technologies within the COMSEC domain.
• Conduct inventories and inspections of secure equipment (e.g., secure telephone and encryption devices) and classified keying material, and provide related COMSEC support and oversight.
• Administer a Top Secret inventory and document control program to account for COMSEC equipment and materials.
• Install secure telephone equipment (STE) and coordinate delivery of encryption devices and keying material to IT specialists maintaining classified networks.
• Conduct inventories in accordance with agency policy and report any discrepancies to the government customer.
• Enforce compliance with NSA Central Security Service Policy Manual No. 3-16, related COMSEC derivatives, and DOW and IC COMSEC standards.
• Ensure Automated Information Systems Security requirements related to COMSEC duties are met.
• Train personnel in COMSEC procedures and the use of related equipment.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and quality assurance for team members.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Active Top Secret SCI clearance, consent to CI Poly
• 2+ years relevant/direct experience.
• Strong understanding of COMSEC accountability, as well as knowledge of the procedures required for the issue and receipt of COMSEC equipment and materials, including inventory and mailing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief executives, employees, and government stakeholders on security requirements.
• Experience with COMSEC tools and software such as KMI (Key Management Infrastructure), COMSEC equipment management platforms, or similar systems.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred:
• Experience establishing a COMSEC program from the ground up in a commercial or government contractor environment.
• Hands-on experience planning, building, accrediting, and maintaining COMSEC architecture for spacecraft.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP or COMSEC Manager (e.g., CNSS 4011).
Company:
Making previously impossible missions possible Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Torrance, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.