
Security Specialist - International
Arlington, VAFull-time$111–185K/yrPosted 3mo agoStill listed today
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Job overview
AMERICAN SYSTEMS seeks a Security Specialist - International to coordinate security for foreign participation, international visits, partner engagement, and classified activities in multinational environments. The role applies access and information-protection controls while enabling authorized collaboration, and coordinates with Government, contractor, disclosure, export, visitor-control, and operational stakeholders. It also maintains procedures and records, briefs stakeholders, and supports reviews of multinational activities.
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Overview
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Test & Evaluation, and Training.
Responsibilities
As the Security Specialist - International, you will:
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Coordinate security requirements associated with foreign participation, international visits, partner engagement, and classified activities in multinational environments.
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Apply access, facility, information-protection, and compartmented-environment controls while enabling authorized collaboration with external partners.
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Work across Government, contractor, disclosure, export, visitor-control, and operational stakeholders to plan engagements, document requirements, resolve issues, and protect sensitive information throughout international interactions.
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By integrating international mission needs with disciplined security procedures, the Security Specialist International supports effective partner activity without weakening need-to-know, releasability, access, or secure-facility protections.
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Maintain records and guidance needed for consistent execution across recurring and high-visibility international events.
Essential Responsibilities:
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Coordinate security planning for foreign participation, international visits, meetings, technical exchanges, and partner-facing activities.
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Apply access, need-to-know, releasability, escort, and secure-environment requirements to international engagements.
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Integrate actions with foreign-disclosure, export-compliance, visitor-control, physical-security, and operational stakeholders.
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Develop and maintain international-security procedures, visit documentation, access records, coordination packages, and tracking tools.
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Assess security implications of proposed partner activities and recommend controls that enable authorized collaboration.
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Brief Government and contractor stakeholders on protection requirements, responsibilities, restrictions, and approved procedures.
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Monitor international-security actions and resolve coordination issues that could affect mission schedules or sensitive information.
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Support reviews and assessments of multinational activities to confirm consistent application of approved protections.
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Qualifications
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Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a relevant discipline and 10 years of directly relevant experience; or a bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline plus 14 years of directly related work experience.
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Demonstrated knowledge of DoDM 5205.07 Volumes Demonstrated knowledge of Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 705.
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Experience must include support to Special Access Program and Sensitive Compartmented Information environments
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Demonstrated ability to coordinate effectively across Government, contractor, and external stakeholders; prepare briefings, reports, standard operating procedures, and official correspondence; and lead a team in fast paced classified environments.
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CLEARANCE: Active Secret clearance; must be able to meet any applicable Special Access Program eligibility requirements identified by the Government.
Pay Transparency Statement AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $110,500.00/Yr. - USD $184,600.00/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance. EEO Statement EEO Race/Sex/Disability Status/Veteran Status
How this job compares
Set against the 593 open Security Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$111–185K/yr
- Virginia median$95–126K/yr59 salary ranges
- US median$85–121K/yr333 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $148K, is 34% above the Virginia median midpoint ($110K) — in the top quarter of Security Specialist salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 88 open Security Specialist jobs in Virginia and 593 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Serco18 open
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- Experience
- Security Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 8 years (425 postings).
- Education
- 133 of the 593 open Security Specialist jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Security jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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