Information Assurance Lead with Security Clearance

GCyber; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

GCyber seeks an Information Assurance Lead to establish and lead the IA function for a mission-focused federal IT modernization effort in a classified environment. The role uses an Agile approach with ServiceNow, Elastic, AWS, Red Hat, and related tools.

You will lead IA engineers, ensure secure system design, coordinate assessments, and drive continuous improvement across teams. Required: Active TS/SCI clearance, 12+ years’ experience, and DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certs.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Twelve or more years of relevant experience; additional experience may substitute for a degree.
• DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certification (e.g., 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 when required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor IA engineers and coordinate security work across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ensure information systems are securely designed, configured, maintained, monitored, documented, and compliant with policies and standards.
• Lead security assessments, risk analyses, vulnerability management, audit preparation, and remediation tracking.
• Coordinate certification and authorization activities and ensure evidence is complete before deployment.
• Integrate security controls into the software development, configuration management, release, and operation lifecycles.
• Monitor security posture and system activity, identify threats or weaknesses, and drive corrective action.
• 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

Leadership

Written and verbal communication

Cross-team collaboration

Cybersecurity experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related

Tools

ServiceNow

Elastic

AWS

Red Hat

Kafka

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.