Cybersecurity Lead

SkyePoint Decisions is a leading Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering, Critical Infrastructure and Operations, and Applications Development and Maintenance IT service provider headquartered in Dulles, Virginia with operations across the U.S. We provide innovative enterprise-wide solutions as well as targeted services addressing the complex challenges faced by our federal government clients. Our focus is on enabling our clients to deliver their mission most efficiently and effectively – anytime, anywhere, securely.

We combine technical expertise, mission awareness, and an empowered workforce to produce meaningful results.

This is a contingent position based upon contract win.

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Cybersecurity Lead to join our team supporting the Department of Education’s (DoED) Federal Student Aid (FSA) Cybersecurity and Privacy Support Services (CPSS).

The Senior Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) Cybersecurity Lead provides senior technical, operational, and program leadership for FSA cybersecurity activities supporting Institutions of Higher Education that handle Federal Student Aid data. The Lead oversees and coordinates IHE cybersecurity compliance, breach and incident response, cyber risk management, remediation, audit oversight, technical guidance, and education-sector outreach. The position serves as a senior cybersecurity resource supporting FSA and participating institutions in protecting sensitive Federal information and addressing cybersecurity risks involving Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), Federal Tax Information (FTI), and Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

This is a remote position.

• Provide senior technical and operational leadership for cybersecurity activities supporting IHEs that handle FSA information.
• Coordinate activities across the four primary FSA IHE cybersecurity work streams:
• Cybersecurity Compliance & Audit Oversight
• Cybersecurity Threat Risk Management
• Coordinate cybersecurity activities among FSA offices, FSA contractors, IHEs, and affiliated organizations.
• Achieve reporting and transparency metrics, to include compliance reporting, dashboard accuracy, and communication responsiveness.
• Achieve customer and stakeholder experience metrics, including stakeholder satisfaction, governance participation, and speed of access request fulfillment.
• Provide senior-level cybersecurity guidance to FSA stakeholders and participating institutions.
• Promote consistency and quality across compliance assessments, incident response, risk management, remediation, and cybersecurity outreach activities.

• Lead and coordinate incident-response and breach-management support for IHEs handling FSA information.
• Provide incident reporting and handling guidance to help IHEs appropriately contain, remediate, and recover from cybersecurity incidents.
• Coordinate remediation and response activities with reporting institutions.
• Oversee the categorization, analysis, documentation, tracking, and management of IHE cybersecurity cases through closure.
• Coordinate breach-response activities involving affected FSA offices, contractors, IHEs, and affiliated organizations.
• Evaluate incident information to identify cybersecurity risks, compliance concerns, and necessary remediation actions.
• Monitor corrective actions and remediation activities through resolution.

• Lead and support cybersecurity compliance assessments of institutions and systems that handle FSA data.
• Evaluate the adequacy of administrative, technical, and physical safeguards and identify cybersecurity and compliance gaps.
• Oversee development of assessment plans addressing methodology, data collection, sampling, reporting timelines, and risk-rating methodology.
• Evaluate the existence and effectiveness of institutional information-security programs.
• Review cybersecurity compliance and audit information and assess corrective-action plans.
• Evaluate safeguards related:
• Identity and access management
• Data classification and inventory
• Encryption of data in transit and at rest
• Change management and secure development
• Logging, monitoring, and incident response
• Vendor and third-party risk