Cyber Security Engineer (5462)

The Cyber Security Engineer will provide security engineering, compliance, and risk management support for cloud-based systems aligned with NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, and DoD IL4–6 requirements. The role will advise partners and customers navigating government security requirements while supporting authorization, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring activities. A key focus will be improving compliance efficiency through GRC platforms, APIs, scripts, cloud-native services, and automation for evidence collection, control validation, documentation, reporting, and remediation tracking. This position is remote supporting a Herndon, VA based team.

Essential Skills

•    Provide cybersecurity engineering and compliance support for FedRAMP and DoD-authorized cloud environments, including IL4–6. 
•    Advise partners and customers on federal and DoD security requirements, authorization strategies, control implementation, and audit readiness. 
•    Develop, review, and maintain authorization documentation, including SSPs, SAPs, SARs, POA&Ms, FedRAMP appendices, policies, and supporting evidence. 
•    Support system authorization and reauthorization activities across FedRAMP/RMF, including gap assessments, control validation, evidence development, and remediation planning. 
•    Leverage GRC platforms, APIs, scripts, and automation to streamline compliance workflows, evidence collection, documentation updates, control testing, and reporting. 
•    Develop repeatable and auditable processes that reduce manual compliance effort and improve the accuracy and consistency of authorization artifacts. 
•    Collaborate with cloud engineering and DevOps teams to design, implement, and validate security controls across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. 
•    Review system changes and significant change requests to assess security impact, identify documentation updates, and maintain authorization boundaries. 
•    Coordinate with system owners, engineers, 3PAOs, Authorizing Officials, and government stakeholders to address findings and support authorization outcomes. 
•    Support continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, POA&M updates, remediation tracking, and recurring compliance deliverables. 
•    Evaluate security tooling and data sources to identify opportunities for automated control validation and compliance reporting. 
•    Track evolving federal cybersecurity requirements and translate them into practical technical and operational actions.

Required Skills & Experience 

•    Strong analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills with a focus on secure and compliant outcomes. 
•    Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to advise partners, customers, engineers, and government stakeholders. 
•    Ability to translate federal security requirements into practical technical controls and operational processes. 
•    U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret or higher security clearance. 
•    Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
•    Five or more years of cybersecurity experience, including at least three years supporting federal cloud security engineering, information assurance, RMF, or ISSO functions. 
•    Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, FedRAMP Moderate and High, DoD IL4–6 overlays, RMF, and related federal compliance frameworks. 
•    Experience developing and maintaining SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, policies, control evidence, and other authorization artifacts. 
•    Experience supporting authorization planning, gap assessments, audit readiness, control implementation, and remediation activities. 
•    Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud environments, including IAM, encryption, logging, configuration management, and security monitoring. 
•    Experience using GRC platforms, APIs, scripting, or automation to improve compliance and security workflows. 
•    Familiarity with tools such as eMASS, Paramify, Nessus/Tenable, Splunk, Prisma Cloud, or comparable solutions.

Desired Skills & Experience

•    Experience supporting FedRAMP, DoD, DISA, or federal agency ATO activities. 
•    CISSP, CGRC/CAP, CISM, Security+, or similar cybersecurity certification. 
•    Experience developing automation with Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, infrastructure-as-code, or cloud-native services. 
•    Experience integrating vulnerability, configuration, and cloud-security data into GRC (Paramify) and POA&M workflows. 
•    Familiarity with DevSecOps pipelines, automated security testing, policy-as-code, and continuous control validation. 
•    Knowledge of FISMA, the Privacy Act, and agency-specific security requirements. 

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