Remote Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: AI-Driven RMF

Sprezzatura Management Consulting; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Health Savings Account

Life and Disability Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

401(k) Company match

Job summary

Sprezzatura is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to provide hands-on security leadership, drive automation and AI enhancements, and strengthen delivery across programs.

The role requires deep RMF, NIST, and federal security experience, with responsibilities spanning guidance, roadmap development, automation, and collaboration with COEs, program leadership, and client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field (Master’s preferred).

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level technical and delivery guidance across cybersecurity teams and workstreams.
• Maintain awareness of security delivery activities, risks, dependencies, and evolving client expectations.
• Support RMF implementation, A&A activities, security control reviews, artifact preparation, POA&M management, system authorization, configuration management, and related security activities.
• Identify gaps across security practices and develop strategies to improve quality, consistency, efficiency, and audit readiness.
• Work with security leads and individual contributors to strengthen execution and establish consistent delivery standards.
• Mentor security practitioners and team leads while promoting accountability, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• Identify repetitive, manual, error-prone, or high-friction security processes that can be improved through automation, AI, or workflow redesign.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized roadmap and backlog of cybersecurity automation opportunities.
• Lead development of reusable AI prompts, automation templates, workflow accelerators, and standardized approaches for recurring security activities.
• Apply automation and AI to RMF and A&A workflows, control reviews, artifact validation, POA&M management, documentation, compliance tracking, and reporting.
• Develop prompt engineering guidance, usage documentation, and targeted training for responsible AI adoption across cybersecurity teams.
• Partner with technical resources and stakeholders to move automation opportunities from concept through implementation.
• Drive continuous improvement in the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and audit readiness of cybersecurity deliverables.
• Collaborate across security teams, COEs, program leadership, architecture, platform operations, sustainment, reporting, and other stakeholders to align security and automation efforts with broader program priorities.
• Track and communicate progress, risks, dependencies, adoption, and measurable improvements from cybersecurity automation initiatives.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

RMF experience

NIST standards

Automation / AI

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Sprezzatura is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to provide hands-on security leadership, drive automation and AI enhancements, and strengthen delivery across programs.

The role requires deep RMF, NIST, and federal security experience, with responsibilities spanning guidance, roadmap development, automation, and collaboration with COEs, program leadership, and client stakeholders.