Risk Mitigation Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SOSi is a private defense and government solutions business specializing in advanced technology systems and mission support. Its capabilities include data science, software development, network engineering, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and logistics.

**This position is contingent upon award of contract**  

SOSi is seeking a Risk Mitigation Specialist. The Risk Mitigation Specialist provides near real-time support to assess and mitigate risks and threats. This includes collecting and analyzing data sets to validate people, assets, utilities, infrastructure, and the information environment associated with JTF-SREC priorities. RM Specialists assess global risks and threats, supporting CI analytics for SOF and HUMINT operations as well as military and commercial supply chain activities.

Essential Job Duties

• Collaborate with CI Analysts to present new or anticipated threats and related probabilities of risks.
• Conduct comprehensive Risk Assessments for proposed intelligence operations, new technologies, or collaborative partnerships to identify potential security and counterintelligence threats.
• Analyze foreign intelligence entity (FIE) threats, tactics, and targeting patterns to inform defensive measures.
• Perform vulnerability analyses of internal processes, operational plans, and technical systems to identify potential weaknesses an adversary could exploit.
• Interview personnel involved in security incidents or anomalies to determine the root cause, scope, and potential damage of a compromise.
• Design and recommend specific countermeasures—procedural, technical, or operational—to reduce identified risks to an acceptable level.
• Create and deliver tailored security, counterintelligence, and OPSEC (Operations Security) briefings for personnel and teams based on their specific roles or mission sets.
• Collaborate with legal, policy, and technical experts to ensure proposed mitigation strategies are effective, compliant, and feasible.
• Conduct periodic inspections and reviews of ongoing activities to ensure that emplaced risk mitigation measures are being adhered to.
• Monitor and report on compliance with agency and IC-wide security policies and directives.
• Track the remediation of identified vulnerabilities and policy deviations, ensuring that corrective actions are completed and effective.
• Review after-action reports from security incidents to identify systemic issues and recommend improvements to agency-wide policy and training.
• Serve as the primary security and risk advisor to leaders and managers of operational, technical, or analytic teams.
• Prepare and present formal risk assessments, findings, and recommendations to senior decision-making bodies and oversight committees.
• Liaise with counterparts in other IC agencies to deconflict activities and share best practices and threat information.
• Conduct outreach engagements, training, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders to reinforce FOCI awareness, compliance expectations, and risk mitigation best practices.
• Support audit readiness and audit response activities by providing documentation, evidence, and subject matter input related to FOCI risk management and internal controls.

Minimum Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance (Willing to submit for CI Poly).
• Bachelor’s degree or 10 years of military experience in the intelligence career field.
• 8+ years of experience conducting analysis relevant to Risk Mitigation with the most 4 recent within USSOCOM Enterprise or Interagency equivalent.
• Demonstrated comprehensive mission knowledge and skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work with other operational and intelligence planner.
• Demonstrated ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.
• Demonstrated in-depth knowledge and understanding of Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) mitigation, including the performance of reviews, special analyses, and evaluations of business operations to develop and implement integrated mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrated in-depth analysis of FOCI-related operations, with the ability to coordinate multiple reports, generate concise executive summaries, and clearly articulate key findings to senior-leader decision makers.

Working Conditions

• Normal office conditions.

Working at SOSi

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.