Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) (CONTINGENT)

Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) - CONTINGENT

Serves as the enterprise lead for cybersecurity governance, compliance, and risk management. This role owns all RMF and ATO activities across the program portfolio, ensuring alignment with DoD directives, federal standards, and cloud security requirements. The manager is accountable for protecting mission systems, sustaining accreditation, and embedding cyber risk management into program operations.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring information security requirements are integrated into IT components and systems throughout the lifecycle.
• Capture and refine security and privacy requirements, ensuring proper integration into system architecture, design, and configuration.
• Provide recommendations to Government Program Managers to inform cybersecurity-related engineering decisions.
• Support development teams by designing and upgrading systems while embedding continuous monitoring requirements.
• Coordinate with senior security officers, privacy officers, system owners, and security architects to align cyber and privacy efforts.
• Employ best practices for secure design, secure architecture, and secure coding techniques.
• Plan and perform engineering research, design development, and technical assignments in line with customer specifications.
• Assist the Government with technical and engineering portions of major cybersecurity programs.
• Perform other duties as required to ensure cybersecurity integration and accreditation of on-prem and cloud-based systems.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive IT support and cybersecurity and compliance experience, with demonstrated success managing enterprise RMF and ATO efforts.
• Deep knowledge of DoD cyber directives, NIST RMF, FedRAMP, and Cloud SRG frameworks.
• [REQUIRED] DoD 8570 IAT II / IASAE II certification (with the ability to obtain 8570 IAT/IAM Lvl III or IASAE Lvl III -CISSP, CISM, CCISO, or equivalent within 6 months of hire).
• Strong track record of leading cyber compliance teams and working with senior government stakeholders.
• [DESIRED] Strong system/network administrator background
• Ability to train lower-level network admins

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field (or 4 years of equivalent experience). Master's preferred.

Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance required w/SAP eligibility