Security Automation​/Cyber Security Engineer

Position Title:
Security Automation / Cyber Security Engineer
Location:
Remote (In the U.S)

Other Considerations: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Required)

Position is contingent on contract award

Sprezzatura is seeking a Security Automation / Cyber Security Engineer to support cybersecurity modernization for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) VA.gov Platform.

The Security Automation / Data Engineer will design, develop, and implement automation that improves how security compliance data is collected, assessed, measured, and reported across a large-scale digital platform. This role will help transform repeatable, manual security and compliance activities into sustainable, engineering-driven capabilities that provide greater visibility into security posture and reduce the operational burden associated with maintaining compliance.

Working alongside security, Dev Sec Ops , infrastructure, and product engineering teams, this position will focus on automated evidence collection and controls assessment, security data integration, compliance measurement, vulnerability and remediation reporting, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) capabilities, and security posture dashboards.

The ideal candidate combines cybersecurity knowledge with strong automation and data engineering skills and is comfortable integrating information across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, security tools, APIs, and compliance systems.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated processes for collecting security and compliance evidence from authoritative system, infrastructure, configuration, and security data sources
• Develop automation to support security control assessment and continuous monitoring, including OSCAL-based evidence collection and control-assessment capabilities
• Build integrations and data pipelines that aggregate and normalize security information from multiple tools, platforms, and APIs
• Develop security metrics and dashboards that provide near-real-time visibility into control posture, remediation status, vulnerabilities, and other security indicators
• Automate recurring security and compliance reporting for security teams, engineering teams, program leadership, and government stakeholders
• Develop capabilities for measuring security-control and security-tooling coverage across applications, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines
• Automate vulnerability and remediation reporting to support prioritization, ownership, aging analysis, and tracking through closure
• Support implementation and operation of an SBOM capability, including collection and analysis of software dependency and third-party component data
• Integrate SBOM and software supply-chain information with vulnerability management and security reporting capabilities
• Partner with Dev Sec Ops  Engineers to ensure security controls implemented within CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure generate usable, repeatable compliance evidence
• Identify manual security and compliance processes that are candidates for automation and implement scalable solutions where feasible
• Support the development of repeatable processes that enable product and engineering teams to demonstrate continued compliance with defined security standards
• Ensure automated security evidence, metrics, and reporting are traceable, maintainable, and usable during ongoing compliance activities and independent controls assessments
• Document automation, integrations, data sources, processes, and technical solutions to support long-term sustainment by the Platform Security team
• Collaborate with security engineers, cybersecurity/RMF specialists, Dev Sec Ops  engineers, software engineers, product teams, and government stakeholders

• Associate's degree and four (4) years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's degree and two (2) years of relevant experience.
• Five (5) years of experience as a Cyber Security Engineer may be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Experience developing automation using Python, JavaScript, or another scripting/programming language
• Experience integrating data from APIs, cloud platforms, CI/CD systems, security tools, or other technical systems
• Experience designing or developing automated workflows, data pipelines, dashboards, metrics, or reporting solutions
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts including security controls, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, and compliance
• Experience working with modern software development and CI/CD practices
• Ability to analyze security and…