Remote Federal Cybersecurity Engineer - FedRAMP/DoD IL4-6

SMX; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 103,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement

Job summary

SMX seeks a Cyber Security Engineer to deliver security engineering, compliance, and RMF/DoD-aligned support for cloud environments. You will advise partners on federal requirements, prepare authorization artifacts, and drive audit readiness across AWS, Azure, and hybrid deployments.

The role emphasizes automation of evidence collection, control validation, and continuous monitoring with GRC/APIs, reporting, and remediation tracking in a remote-capable team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
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Responsibilities

• Provide cybersecurity engineering and compliance support for FedRAMP and DoD-authorized cloud environments (IL4–6).
• Advise partners and customers on federal security requirements, authorization strategies, and audit readiness.
• Develop, review, and maintain SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, policies, and supporting evidence.
• Support authorization planning, gap assessments, and remediation activities across RMF and FedRAMP.
• Automate evidence collection and documentation updates using GRC platforms, APIs, and scripts.
• Collaborate with cloud engineering and DevOps teams to implement security controls in AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
• Review system changes for security impact and maintain authorization boundaries.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to address findings and support authorization outcomes.

Skills

FedRAMP

DoD Security

Cloud Security

RMF

NIST SP 800-53

GRC Automation

AWS/Azure

IAM & Encryption

DevOps Collaboration

Documentation

Audit Readiness

Evidence Collection

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

eMASS

Nessus/Tenable

Splunk

Prisma Cloud

Paramify

Job description

SMX seeks a Cyber Security Engineer to deliver security engineering, compliance, and RMF/DoD-aligned support for cloud environments. You will advise partners on federal requirements, prepare authorization artifacts, and drive audit readiness across AWS, Azure, and hybrid deployments.

The role emphasizes automation of evidence collection, control validation, and continuous monitoring with GRC/APIs, reporting, and remediation tracking in a remote-capable team.