The Congressional Budget Office is a small nonpartisan agency that provides independent, objective economic and budgetary analysis to the Congress. The agency seeks a senior information security engineer to manage an effective security program for its information systems. The person in this position serves as the agency’s top information security professional and reports to the chief information officer.

The senior information security engineer develops and applies the tools, policies, and procedures necessary to protect CBO’s network and computer systems. Responsibilities include developing and reviewing security guidelines, policies, and procedures and enforcing compliance with them, while balancing the need to facilitate the work of CBO’s analytical staff; providing leadership in analyzing and addressing vulnerabilities and attempted intrusions and in preventing systems or data from being compromised; conducting security reviews and risk assessments; and providing recommendations to keep the agency’s enterprise architecture and network secure.