Information System Security Officer; ISSO

Position: Information System Security Officer (ISSO)
Are you passionate about driving security compliance in complex cloud environments and helping organizations maintain trusted relationships with government stakeholders?

Do you enjoy collaborating across engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver secure, compliant solutions that make a meaningful impact?

About the Business Lexis Nexis  Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient.

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Our team is composed of highly technical professionals who thrive on solving complex security, cloud, and compliance challenges. We foster a collaborative, engineering-focused culture where team members are empowered to lead difficult initiatives, drive innovation, and deliver outcomes in highly regulated environments.

About the Role We are seeking an experienced Information System Security Officer (ISSO) to lead and maintain the security and compliance posture of our recently obtained FedRAMP-authorized cloud environment. The ISSO will serve as the primary security compliance lead responsible for ensuring ongoing adherence to FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and organizational security requirements. This role will partner with Engineering, Cloud Operations, Dev Ops, Product, and Compliance teams to maintain authorization, manage continuous monitoring activities, support audits and assessments, and drive security improvements across the platform.

The ideal candidate combines strong cybersecurity knowledge with hands-on experience managing FedRAMP-authorized systems in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Key Responsibilities

FedRAMP Program Management Serve as the designated ISSO for FedRAMP-authorized systems.

Maintain the organization's Authority to Operate (ATO) and support ongoing compliance activities.

Lead FedRAMP continuous monitoring activities, including monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements.

Coordinate annual assessments, independent audits, penetration testing, and security reviews with Third Party Assessment Organizations (3

PAOs).Manage security-related communications with federal agencies, sponsoring organizations, and stakeholders.

Risk & Security Management Conduct security risk assessments and vulnerability analyses.

Review, assess, and monitor Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M) items through remediation.

Evaluate security impacts of system changes and support Significant Change Request (SCR) submissions.

Ensure proper implementation and effectiveness of NIST 800-53 security controls.

Facilitate security reviews for architecture changes, new technologies, and cloud deployments.

Compliance & Documentation Maintain FedRAMP security documentation including:

System Security Plan (SSP),Security Assessment Reports (SAR)
POA&MConfiguration Management Plan Incident Response Plan Continuous Monitoring Strategy Contingency Planning Documentation Review and approve security documentation updates resulting from system changes.

Ensure evidence collection and compliance artifacts are complete and audit-ready.

Continuous Monitoring Manage POA&M deliverables for the sponsor.

Monitor security events, incidents, and compliance metrics.

Validate remediation efforts for identified security findings.

Ensure required security assessments are completed according to established schedules.

Track compliance KPIs and report status to leadership.

Security Operations & Incident Response Participate in security incident investigations and response efforts.

Coordinate with security operations teams to ensure timely identification and remediation of threats.

Support root cause analysis and corrective action planning following incidents.

Review security monitoring tools and processes…