OSCAL Architect; Security Controls as Code) NATO security clearance

A control catalogue written in prose cannot be checked by a machine. Your job would be to change that.

A multinational defence organisation in The Hague, Netherlands is digitising its security control baseline so that compliance can be measured continuously rather than audited once a year. You would architect the translation — from written standards to structured, machine-readable control data.

• Reviewing the existing security requirement statements and the NIST or ISO baseline behind them, ready for conversion
• Importing that baseline into a structured, machine-readable control format
• Identifying and documenting the technical triggers that the cloud environment can raise
• Mapping those triggers to specific control identifiers — policy as code
• Reviewing sampled automated evidence for completeness, accuracy and fitness to support a system security plan
• Generating the first full system security plan from automated evidence rather than by hand
• Running stakeholder sessions to validate the assumptions, mappings, evidence sources and the generation logic
• Tracking issues through to remediation

• A bachelor's degree in a related discipline with three years of related experience
• Three years across all of: NIST and ISO control frameworks; confident JSON and YAML; and regulatory mapping
• Translating compliance requirements into code
• Documented experience of process analysis and design

• Real technical knowledge of how allied organisations achieve interoperability
• A working understanding of defence cloud strategy
• ITIL, COBIT or an equivalent

Very few architects have taken a real control catalogue all the way into code and out again as a generated security plan. This is that piece of work, on a serious estate.