Information Assurance Lead with Security Clearance

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 help support a mission-focused federal IT modernization effort that is building and integrating secure digital capabilities in a classified environment. The program uses an Agile delivery model and a technology environment centered on ServiceNow, Elastic, AWS, Red Hat, and supporting integration technologies such as Kafka. The Information Assurance Lead will establish and lead the IA function, ensuring that systems are engineered, assessed, authorized, operated, and improved in accordance with customer, DoD, and federal security requirements. As the Information Assurance Lead, you will

• 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. Minimum Requirements and Experience
• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• Ability to obtain and maintain any additional customer suitability approvals required for the position.
• DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certification (i.e., Security+, CCNA-Security, CND, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP)
• Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases
• Full-time on-site presence at secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program matures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical, operational, security, and customer teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Twelve or more years of relevant experience; additional relevant experience may be considered in place of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience leading cybersecurity or information assurance teams.
• Experience with risk assessments, IT audits, security planning, system authorization, policy development, and compliance with federal and DoD requirements.
• Working knowledge of network, cloud, application, endpoint, identity, encryption, vulnerability, logging, IDS/IPS, VPN, firewall, virtualization, and data-protection controls.
• Experience with Linux or UNIX and at least one scripting language. Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with RMF, NIST SP 800-53, STIGs, eMASS, continuous monitoring, POA&Ms, AWS GovCloud, IL5 or IL6 environments, and classified system authorization.
• Security leadership certification such as CISSP, CAP/CGRC, CISM, CASP+, or equivalent.
• Experience securing ServiceNow, Elastic, Kafka, Red Hat, cloud-native applications, data pipelines, or DevSecOps environments.