Director of Information Assurance

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

About The Role

Peraton is seeking a seasoned security executive to serve as Director of Information Assurance, the senior IA leader accountable for Peraton's ISSM program across the company's classified computing environments. This role leads a distributed team of direct-report managers plus their ISSM/ISSO staff supporting programs across the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. The role sits within Peraton's Office of the CIO, inside the CISO organization, and reports to the Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer.

Key Responsibilities

Team leadership

• Lead and develop a distributed team of ISSMs and ISSOs across manager-led sub-teams; own hiring, performance, career development, and workforce planning.

• Appoint qualified ISSMs and ISSOs to individual systems and hold the cadre accountable for accreditation, continuous monitoring, and audit quality.

• Reinforce a culture of empowered front-line management and clear performance standards.

• Manage the function's labor and tooling spend.

Strategic priorities

• Continuously align the IA workforce to program demand by refining role definitions, balancing capacity across enclaves, and developing the team to support both current commitments and pipeline growth.

• Partner with Finance, Contracts, Compliance, and Program Management to convert appropriate IA roles from indirect to direct-charge where the business case supports it.

• Build the metrics and narrative that convey IA scope, demand signal, and resourcing risk to the business.

• Sustain and improve accreditation velocity, including ATO cycle time, POA&M aging, and continuous monitoring rigor.

Accreditation oversight

• Provide enterprise oversight of the authorization lifecycle for classified networks and standalone systems for new ATOs, continuous ATO, reciprocity, and re-authorization.

• Set enterprise standards for RMF artifacts (SSPs, control assessments, SCTMs, POA&Ms, contingency plans); engage AOs, SCAs, and sponsors on enterprise-level matters.

• Direct the risk assessment methodology (CNSSI 1253 / FIPS 199) applied to hardware and software proposed for program use.

Operations and compliance

• Establish and maintain enterprise standards for media protection, endpoint hardening, configuration management, vulnerability scanning, and security awareness for classified users.

• Direct the continuous monitoring program, including audit log review, control self-assessments, and independent audits.

• Ensure classified media handling and sanitization align with NIST SP 800-88 and program requirements.

• Maintain the IA training curriculum in coordination with the FSO and security education team.

Partnership and external engagement

• Interact with government security officials, Authorizing Officials, and program sponsors on security matters, reporting, and briefings.

• Represent Peraton in professional bodies such as CAISSWG, INSA, ND-ISAC, and NCMS.

• Operate fluently across 32 CFR Part 117 (NISPOM Rule), DFARS 252.204-7012, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, DAAG, JSIG, ICD 503, ICD 502, ICD 705, and DoDM 8140.03.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field; Master's preferred. Equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.
• 16+ years of total professional experience
• 10+ years of information security experience, including leading IA and system security operations in classified environments (DoD collateral and/or SCI) with responsibility overseeing hiring, performance, and career development. Managing geographically dispersed team experience preferred.
• Demonstrated track record overseeing teams that have obtained and maintained ATOs from DCSA, DoD, and/or IC Authorizing Officials.
• Active TS clearance with the ability to obtain an SCI
• DoDM 8140.03 IAM Level III certification - CISSP, CISM, GSLC, or equivalent.
• Executive-level oral and written communication skills, including the ability to hold direct, accountable conversations across all organizational levels.

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior ISSO, ISSM, ISSE, or SCA experience in an IC environment; experience overseeing ISSMs of Record with DCSA, DIA, NSA, NRO, or CIA sponsors.
• Experience authoring and defending accreditation packages in eMASS, Xacta, or equivalent tooling.
• Experience partnering with Finance, Contracts, and Program Management to structure security roles as direct-billed program costs.
• Prior experience running a corporate-overhead function with measurable efficiency and demand-justification discipline.
• Familiarity with cross-domain solutions (CDS) and cross-domain accreditation.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust reference architectures (DoD ZT Strategy, CISA ZTMM) in classified environments.

Details

Target Salary Range: $176,000 - $282,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.

EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.