Cybersecurity Risk & Exposure Subject Matter Expert IV

Invictus International; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Invictus International seeks a Lead Cybersecurity Risk & Exposure SME IV in Colorado Springs to support a DoD cyber defense mission. You will lead exposure analyses, develop risk-informed actions, and coordinate with ISSOs, system owners, and engineering teams.

You will mentor analysts, review remediation evidence, and produce executive briefings that convey exposure, control effectiveness, and mission impact to technical and leadership audiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline; 4 years may substitute for education.
• Minimum eight years of relevant experience in cyber risk and RMF.
• Expert knowledge of vulnerability management, RMF, and DoD security controls.
• Experience with ACAS/Tenable, runZero, STIG/SCAP, and RMF integration.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior SME for cyber risk, exposure analysis, and continuous monitoring.
• Lead exposure assessments, attack paths, and remediation prioritization.
• Coordinate findings with ISSOs, system owners, and authorization stakeholders.
• Develop briefings and dashboards communicating risk to leadership.
• Mentor analysts and provide quality review of exposure assessments.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Risk analysis

Continuous monitoring

DoD cyber security

Incident response coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

4 years of related experience in lieu of degree

Tools

ACAS/Tenable

runZero

STIG/SCAP

RMF processes

Job description

Title: Lead Cybersecurity Risk & Exposure Subject Matter Expert IV

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Job Details:

• Serve as the senior SME for operational cyber risk, vulnerability/exposure analysis, and continuous monitoring supporting a DoD cyber defense mission
• Establish methodologies for correlating vulnerability, asset, configuration, network reachability, system criticality, security-control, threat, and incident data to identify and prioritize the exposures most likely to create operational or mission risk
• Lead complex exposure and impact assessments, including development of plausible exploitation scenarios, attack paths, affected-system analysis, compensating-control considerations, and risk-informed courses of action
• Provide expert vulnerability, asset, architecture, and security-control context to SOC leadership, Cybersecurity Operations Analysts, Threat Analysts, incident responders, and engineering teams during significant investigations and proactive defensive activity
• Lead analysis of ACAS/Tenable results, runZero asset information, STIG/configuration findings, system documentation, and other approved data to identify systemic weaknesses, exploitable conditions, and remediation priorities
• Own the SOC-side process for coordinating material cyber findings with affected system ISSOs/ISSMs, system owners, administrators, engineers, and authorization stakeholders; ensure operational findings are translated into appropriate mitigation, continuous-monitoring, POA&M, or RMF actions without duplicating system ISSO responsibilities
• Establish and maintain checklists, TTPs, guides, procedures, quality standards, and reporting methods for exposure analysis, risk prioritization, remediation validation, and SOC-to-system-security coordination
• Lead review of remediation evidence, recurring vulnerabilities, exposure trends, control weaknesses, and SOC-derived findings to identify systemic risk and recommend enterprise or site-level corrective actions
• Develop briefings, executive summaries, risk assessments, metrics, dashboards, and technical products that communicate operational exposure, remediation progress, control effectiveness, and mission impact to technical and leadership audiences
• Advise SOC leadership on vulnerability/exposure trends, high-risk assets, recurring security weaknesses, remediation priorities, and opportunities to improve the integration of vulnerability management, threat information, and cyber defense operations
• Mentor senior and developing analysts and provide technical quality review of exposure assessments, risk conclusions, remediation recommendations, and stakeholder coordination products
• Experience integrating vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, RMF/ISSO processes, and SOC or incident-response operations in a DoD/IC or similarly complex enterprise environment is highly desired

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in a technical discipline applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
• Demonstrated expert knowledge of vulnerability/exposure management, threat-informed risk analysis, DoD continuous monitoring, RMF/security controls, network/system security, and technical risk assessment
• Experience with ACAS/Tenable, runZero or comparable exposure/asset-discovery tools, DoD STIG/STIG Viewer, SCAP, POA&M processes, and integration of SOC/incident-response findings with ISSO/ISSM or RMF functions is highly desired
• Demonstrated experience establishing exposure-analysis methodology, leading complex risk assessments, prioritizing remediation, and translating operational cyber findings into continuous-monitoring or RMF actions is strongly desired
• Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II or IAM II certification
• Experience working in a DoD or IC environment
• Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled