Remote ATO Automation Engineer - RMF & Compliance

SkyePoint Decisions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification incentive program

PTO

Floating federal holidays

Health insurance options

Job summary

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking an ATO Automation Engineer to join our team supporting a federal customer. This position is contingent on contract win and is remote.

The role focuses on designing and implementing automation for authorization workflows by integrating evidence, assessment results, and policy checks into traceable ATO processes, with collaboration across security and government stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Engineering or related field with 5–8+ years of experience.
• Experience with RMF/ATO processes, security assessment/evidence activities, GRC workflows, or comparable security authorization functions.
• Ability to automate workflow, evidence, data, reporting, or compliance activities via software, scripting, APIs or approved platforms.
• Working knowledge of security controls, assessment evidence, vulnerability findings, traceability, and Government authorization processes.
• Active Secret clearance is highly preferred; U.S. Citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze authorization workflows, evidence requirements, assessment activities, control data, approvals, and recurring manual steps to identify automation opportunities.
• Develop automated evidence collection, validation, normalization, routing, status tracking, and reporting capabilities.
• Integrate ATO automation with security scanning, SBOM/SCA, vulnerability, workflow, data, repository, and system-of-record capabilities as approved by the customer.
• Implement rules and policy checks that support consistent assessment and authorization workflows without replacing Government decision authority.
• Develop dashboards and decision-support views that expose evidence status, findings, dependencies, exceptions, and readiness information.
• Collaborate with security, development, platform, integration, data, and Government stakeholders to validate automation logic and maintain traceability.
• Develop automated tests, configuration documentation, runbooks, ADRs, change documentation, and release artifacts.

Skills

Automation of workflows

RMF/ATO experience

Scripting & APIs

Security controls knowledge

Public Trust / Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Python

REST APIs

Jira/Confluence/GitLab

AWS

Job description

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking an ATO Automation Engineer to join our team supporting a federal customer. This position is contingent on contract win and is remote.

The role focuses on designing and implementing automation for authorization workflows by integrating evidence, assessment results, and policy checks into traceable ATO processes, with collaboration across security and government stakeholders.