Remote FedRAMP/DoD Cloud Security Engineer (IL4-6)

SMX; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 103,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement

Job summary

SMX is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to provide security engineering, compliance, and risk management for cloud environments aligned with NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, and DoD IL4–6. The role supports a remote, nationwide team with interaction across partners, customers, and government stakeholders.

You will develop authorization artifacts and drive automation to streamline evidence collection and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in information security, cybersecurity, CS, or related field.
• ≥5 years of cybersecurity experience, including 3+ years in federal cloud security engineering, RMF, or ISSO functions.
• Experience developing and maintaining SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, policies, and control evidence.

Responsibilities

• Provide cybersecurity engineering and compliance support for FedRAMP and DoD-authorized cloud environments, including IL4–6.
• Advise partners and customers on federal security requirements, authorization strategies, and audit readiness.
• Develop, review, and maintain authorization documentation (SSPs, SAPs, SARs, POA&Ms, FedRAMP appendices).
• Support authorization planning, gap assessments, control validation, and remediation activities.
• Leverage GRC platforms, APIs, scripts, and automation to streamline compliance workflows and evidence collection.
• Create repeatable, auditable processes to improve accuracy of authorization artifacts.
• Collaborate with cloud engineering and DevOps to design and validate security controls (AWS, Azure, hybrid).
• Review system changes to assess security impact and update documentation.
• Coordinate with system owners, 3PAOs, Authorizing Officials, and government stakeholders to address findings.
• Support continuous monitoring, remediation tracking, and recurring compliance deliverables.
• Evaluate security tooling and data sources for automated validation and reporting.
• Track evolving federal cybersecurity requirements and translate them into practical actions.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Federal security requirements

Stakeholder management

RMF/NIST/DoD

Cloud security engineering

Automation & scripting

Documentation & evidence development

Continuous monitoring

Change impact assessment

DevOps collaboration

Education

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

Tools

eMASS

Paramify

Nessus/Tenable

Splunk

Prisma Cloud

Job description

SMX is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to provide security engineering, compliance, and risk management for cloud environments aligned with NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, and DoD IL4–6. The role supports a remote, nationwide team with interaction across partners, customers, and government stakeholders.

You will develop authorization artifacts and drive automation to streamline evidence collection and reporting.