Now Hiring Security Officers

The Facility Security Officer (FSO) is Aleut Federal's single enterprise owner for the industrial security programs of separately cleared legal entities and facilities supporting Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Energy (DOE) requirements. Based in Colorado Springs, where most assigned facility clearances are located, the FSO maintains facility-clearance eligibility, protects classified information, manages personnel security and agency reporting, and serves as the primary interface with DCSA, DOE/NNSA security organizations, government customers, and internal leadership. Other facilities may be added and may require limited travel.
appointments, CAGE codes, facility clearances, contracts, personnel relationships, records, and reporting remain entity-specific.
Full-time
Security designation
Facility Security Officer for each specifically designated cleared entity/facility; Active Top Secret national security eligibility required; Travel
Ability to travel to Aleut and customer locations as required, including occasional short-notice travel
Facility Clearance, FOCI, and Governance
Supervise and direct the security measures required by 32 CFR Part 117, DOE directives, contract security requirements, and cognizant security authority guidance for each assigned entity and facility.
Maintain current, entity-specific facility profiles, FCL records, KMP listings, exclusion actions, governance documents, organizational information, and supporting evidence in NISS, e-FOCI, SSIMS, and other required systems.
Identify, validate, and report changed conditions involving ownership, control, foreign interests, legal name, address, physical location, KMP, organizational structure, business operations, or other reportable matters within the applicable agency deadline.
Coordinate FCL sponsorships, upgrades, downgrades, reciprocity actions, transfers, terminations, and classified-contract registration with DCSA, DOE/NNSA, contracting personnel, customers, Legal, Contracts, and executive leadership.
Maintain clear separation of records, appointments, contract authority, personnel relationships, and reporting obligations across subsidiaries, CAGE codes, facilities, and cognizant agencies.
Personnel Security and Access
Manage the end-to-end personnel security lifecycle, including clearance verification, relationship or ownership actions, investigation initiation, fingerprint coordination, questionnaire review, status monitoring, eligibility and access updates, indoctrination, briefings, debriefings, visit requests, and access removal.
Operate and maintain authorized access to DISS, NISS, NBIS/eApp, e-FOCI, SSIMS, Sign In Compliance, Jira, and agency- or contract-specific security systems.
Coordinate DOE access-authorization, badging, reciprocity, reinvestigation, and termination actions with the responsible DOE/NNSA security office; distinguish DOE access authorization from DoD national security eligibility and contract/site access.
Partner with Recruiting, HR, project leadership, and employees to meet internal processing timelines, including Aleut's 24-hour clearance-verification response expectation, while protecting PII and security records.
Classified Contracts and Security Controls
Review DD Form 254s, DOE F 470.1 Contract Security Classification Specifications, DOE F 470.2 Facility Data and Approval Records, security clauses, classification guidance, and customer direction to translate requirements into operational controls.
Coordinate security requirements for prime contracts, subcontracts, consultants, classified visits and meetings, special and caveated access, CAC/PIV or agency credentialing actions, and contract closeout.
Maintain and implement facility-specific security procedures and plans; confirm whether a facility is possessing or non-possessing and apply only the controls authorized for that facility.
Coordinate safeguarding, transmission, marking, destruction, emergency protection, incident response, and physical-security controls when applicable to the authorized facility and contract scope.
Training, Reporting, and Insider Threat Support
Develop, deliver, track, and retain evidence of initial, annual, role-specific, foreign-travel, threat-awareness, counterintelligence, reporting, debriefing, and special-access training and briefings.
Receive, assess, document, elevate, and report adverse information, suspicious contacts, foreign contacts and travel, potential compromises, cyber-related security events, insider-threat indicators, and other reportable conditions through the correct entity and agency channel.
Serve as an integral member of the insider threat program and support the ITPSO with information integration, inquiries, mitigation, reporting, training, and records while protecting privacy and limiting access to need-to-know.
Coordinate with Legal, HR, IT/Cybersecurity, Contracts, leadership, and law enforcement or government security representatives during security inquiries and investigations.
Assessments, Records, and Program Performance
Continuously evaluate the security program and conduct formal self-inspections at least annually for each applicable cleared facility; document findings, corrective actions, closure evidence, management briefings, and required certifications.
Lead preparation for DCSA and DOE/NNSA reviews, surveys, vulnerability assessments, interviews, data requests, corrective actions, and follow-up; Maintain complete, accurate, access-controlled security records in the designated system of record in accordance with applicable retention requirements and Aleut policy.
Establish workload, timeliness, training, data-quality, reporting, and corrective-action metrics; brief material risks, overdue actions, and decisions to the SMO and EED leadership.
Direct and quality-check work performed by AFSOs, security specialists, and external support personnel; delegate administrative processing without delegating the FSO's assigned accountability.
Acts as the principal company point of contact for assigned DCSA and DOE/NNSA industrial-security matters and government security reviews.
May suspend or withhold company-granted access, visits, processing, or security approval when eligibility, need-to-know, training, documentation, safeguarding, or reporting requirements are not satisfied.
Escalates actual or potential loss, compromise, missed reporting, FCL jeopardy, KMP gaps, or contract-start risk immediately to the appropriate SMO and executive owner.
Requires corrective action and closure evidence for material security deficiencies within assigned authority.
Active Top Secret national security eligibility at the time of appointment; Bachelor's degree and at least seven years of progressively responsible industrial-security experience, including at least five years supporting the National Industrial Security Program; Demonstrated experience serving as an FSO, senior AFSO, or comparable industrial-security lead for multiple cleared entities, CAGE codes, or facilities.
Working knowledge of 32 CFR Part 117, FCL and FOCI processes, KMP requirements, personnel security, security reporting, self-inspections, government reviews, DD Form 254 administration, and classified-contract closeout.
ability to learn and operate DOE e-FOCI, SSIMS, and customer‑specific systems.
Ability to exercise independent judgment, protect sensitive personnel and security information, manage competing agency deadlines, and communicate directly with senior leaders and government officials.
Required Training
Documented completion of the DOE Facility Security Officer Overview Course before hire.
Documented completion of the CDSE Insider Threat for Industry Curriculum INT311.Maintain all recurring, agency-specific, system-access, insider-threat, derivative-classification, and special-access training required for assigned duties.

Experience managing both DCSA-cognizant and DOE/NNSA facility clearances, including reciprocity and FOCI/KMP actions.
Experience supporting non-possessing and possessing facilities, special access programs, SCI nominations, COMSEC, NATO, CNWDI, or Restricted Data requirements, as applicable.
Industrial Security Professional (ISP), Security Fundamentals Professional Certification (SFPC), Industrial Security Oversight Certification (ISOC), or comparable security credential.
Experience leading security reviews, formal self‑inspections, corrective‑action programs, process improvement, and security metrics across a geographically dispersed organization.
Industrial-security judgment; regulatory interpretation; documentation quality; risk escalation; customer communication; Performance Measures
No missed agency reporting deadlines or unreported material changed conditions.
All assigned FCL, KMP, facility-profile, contract-security, and system-of-record data remain current and entity-specific.
Required initial, annual, and role-specific training is completed and evidenced on time.
Personnel security, onboarding, access, visit, and offboarding actions meet established service levels with no preventable day-one or contract-performance delays.
Annual self-inspections and management certifications are completed on schedule; findings have owners, due dates, risk ratings, and verified closure evidence.
Government reviews and data requests receive accurate, consistent, and timely responses; Work is primarily performed in an office environment and may require extended computer use, secure handling of sensitive records, participation in private interviews or government reviews, and travel to company or customer locations. The employee must follow site-specific safety, access, badging, information-protection, and prohibited-item requirements.
Aleut Federal, LLC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, AF complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. AF prohibits workplace harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
Inspired to perform well by an ability to drive new ventures within the business
Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities