Information Assurance Lead: Secure Cloud & DevSecOps

GCyber; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Partial telework during development

On-site facility in Washington, DC

Job summary

GCyber is seeking an Information Assurance Lead to support a mission-focused federal IT modernization effort in a classified environment. You will establish and lead the IA function, ensuring that systems are designed, assessed, authorized, operated, and improved per DoD and federal security requirements.

The role requires active TS/SCI clearance, DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certification, and a strong track record leading cybersecurity teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, CS, Engineering, or related field.
• Twelve+ years of relevant cybersecurity or information assurance experience.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance; ability to obtain customer approvals.
• DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certification (e.g., Security+, CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP).
• Strong written and verbal communication across teams.
• Experience securing ServiceNow, Elastic, Kafka, Red Hat, cloud-native apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor IA engineers and coordinate security work across application, cloud, infrastructure, DevSecOps, test, operations, and customer teams.
• Ensure information systems are securely designed, configured, maintained, monitored, documented, and compliant with applicable policies and standards.
• Lead security assessments, risk analyses, vulnerability management, audit preparation, and remediation tracking.
• Coordinate certification and authorization activities and ensure security requirements and evidence are complete before deployment.
• Integrate security controls into the software development, configuration management, release, and operational support lifecycles.
• Monitor security posture and system activity, identify threats or control weaknesses, and drive corrective action and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain security plans, policies, procedures, control evidence, risk decisions, and customer briefings.
• Provide clear status on security risks, accreditation dependencies, vulnerabilities, remediation, and operational readiness.

Skills

IA leadership

Mentor IA engineers

Security assessments

Certification & authorization

DevSecOps coordination

Security policies & controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, CS, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

eMASS

AWS GovCloud

NIST SP 800-53

STIGs

RMF

Job description

GCyber is seeking an Information Assurance Lead to support a mission-focused federal IT modernization effort in a classified environment. You will establish and lead the IA function, ensuring that systems are designed, assessed, authorized, operated, and improved per DoD and federal security requirements.

The role requires active TS/SCI clearance, DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certification, and a strong track record leading cybersecurity teams.