Senior​/Security Engineer; U. S. Air Force

United States

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We're at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we'd love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

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At Skylight, security engineers stay up to date with the cutting edge of security and help teams implement new processes, tools, and remediations. They're familiar with modern software development and work in cross-functional teams to inform and guide security best practices at all stages of the software development life cycle.

Skylight is partnering with a U.S. Air Force program office that runs a portfolio of civil engineering systems. These systems serve users across civil engineering, security forces, and services, including readiness managers, range personnel, and fire and emergency services. Releases are slow today. Regression testing is manual, security review happens after development finishes, and code freeze to production can take a month or more.

We'll move the program to an outcome-driven model with test automation and security built into the pipeline, starting with migrating the first application onto a DoD software factory. Leadership wants this office to become the model other Air Force offices adopt.

In this role, you'll focus on security automation: generating authorization evidence from the pipeline so security review happens alongside development instead of after it.

Your first 30 days are about working with the Skylight team and government personnel, learning how the program office gets changes to users today, and understanding where testing and security slow things down. This is new work that replaces a traditional support model, so part of the job is coaching your government partners to keep these practices running after we leave.

Expect to work alongside government engineers and other contractors, with tools and processes changing as the work gets underway.

This role is contingent on Skylight being awarded the underlying contract. If we're not awarded the contract, we'll let you know promptly and discuss whether there are other opportunities that fit.

• Automate security evidence generation and map controls under RMF to support continuous authorization
• Author control implementations and the body of evidence, including documenting controls inherited from the software factory
• Conduct security audits and risk analyses, and plan and implement remediations
• Translate compliance requirements into practical engineering choices the team can act on
• Build trust with security reviewers and authorizing officials, and explain technical tradeoffs clearly
• Pair with and coach government teams so they can sustain these security practices after we leave

• Able to detect risks by continually reviewing all aspects of the application for vulnerabilities and enumerating them
• Able to mitigate and prevent risks by proactively working with teams to build secure and compliant systems
• Familiarity with common sources of vulnerability information
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements regarding security and compliance
• Experience taking systems through RMF and ATO, ideally in DoD, including authoring the control implementation and body of evidence
• Experience automating security evidence generation or mapping controls under RMF
• Can write clean, working, and reusable code in at least one programming language
• Experience working on cross-functional teams (product, design, engineering,…