Cyber Security Engineer

Position: Cyber Security Engineer (5462)
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** 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 Dev Ops 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, 3

PAOs, 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, Power Shell, 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 Dev Sec Ops  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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