
Security Specialist - Physical Security
Arlington, VAFull-time$133–221K/yrPosted 3mo agoStill listed today
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Job overview
AMERICAN SYSTEMS seeks a Security Specialist - Physical Security to protect classified facilities, secure spaces, assets, and operations. The role implements and monitors physical safeguards, supports facility security planning and sustainment, conducts inspections, documents findings, and coordinates corrective actions with Government stakeholders and facility personnel. Candidates need a relevant graduate degree with 10 years of directly relevant experience, or a relevant bachelor’s degree with 14 years of related experience, plus an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
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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 - Physical Security you will:
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Protect classified facilities, secure spaces, assets, and operations through physical safeguards, entry controls, secure-area procedures, assessments, and corrective actions.
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Support facility security planning, evaluates protective measures, maintains required documentation, and coordinates recurring activities needed to preserve controlled-environment requirements.
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Work with Government security stakeholders, facility personnel, users, and other security disciplines to address access, key and lock control, inspections, opening and closing procedures, and changes that may affect secure operations. Through consistent oversight and practical issue resolution.
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Help ensure that physical protections remain effective, documented, and aligned with applicable Government standards throughout facility operations and sustainment.
Essential Responsibilities:
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Implement and monitor physical-security controls for classified facilities, secure spaces, assets, and operational areas.
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Administer entry-control, key and lock, access, secure-area opening and closing, and related protection procedures.
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Support facility security planning, secure-space sustainment, and evaluation of proposed physical changes.
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Conduct inspections, assessments, and recurring reviews of physical safeguards and controlled-environment procedures.
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Document findings, coordinate corrective actions, and verify completion of required physical-security improvements.
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Maintain facility-security records, diagrams, logs, access information, inspection files, and supporting documentation.
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Coordinate physical-security requirements with Government stakeholders, facility personnel, users, and specialized security functions.
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Respond to physical-security issues and recommend protective measures that preserve classified operations and mission continuity.
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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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Must possess or be willing to obtain Physical Security Certification (PSC) within one year of hire.
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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 Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; 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 $132,500.00/Yr. - USD $221,300.00/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$133–221K/yr
- Virginia median$95–126K/yr59 salary ranges
- US median$85–121K/yr333 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $177K, is 61% 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
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Security Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 425 postings).
- Education
- 133 of the 593 open Security Specialist jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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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