Remote Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – RMF & Automation

Cyberjobs; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

Health Savings Account with companycon

Company paid Life/Disability

Voluntary Insurance options

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Sprezzatura is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to lead and implement advanced cybersecurity delivery across programs in the U.S. You will strengthen security collaboration, drive RMF and A&A activities, and advance automation and AI to improve efficiency and compliance.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong governance, and cross-functional partnership with COEs, architecture, and program teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• CISSP or comparable industry-recognized cybersecurity credential.
• 10+ years of experience leading diverse technical or cybersecurity teams, including subcontractor resources.
• 5+ years of federal information systems security experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on RMF experience.
• In-depth knowledge of NIST standards, FIPS 199, and federal information system security requirements.
• Experience with A&A activities, security control reviews, POA&M management, system authorizations, configuration management, and security documentation.
• Familiarity with multiple cybersecurity compliance frameworks.
• Proven track record identifying and improving inefficient or manual cybersecurity processes.
• Experience applying automation to cybersecurity, compliance, technical, or operational workflows.
• Practical experience using AI-enabled tools, prompt engineering, or AI-assistant workflows to improve productivity, consistency, or quality.
• Strong communication and leadership skills across technical teams, program leadership, and client stakeholders.

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 contributors to strengthen execution and establish consistent delivery standards.
• Mentor security practitioners and team leads while promoting accountability and continuous improvement.
• Identify repetitive, manual, error-prone, or high-friction security processes and improve via 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, reporting, data reconciliation, and quality assurance.
• Develop prompt engineering guidance, usage documentation, and targeted training for responsible AI adoption across cybersecurity teams.
• Partner with technical resources to move automation opportunities from concept through implementation.
• Drive continuous improvement in 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 with program priorities.
• Track and communicate progress, risks, dependencies, adoption, and measurable improvements from cybersecurity automation.

Skills

RMF

NIST standards

A&A

Automation

AI

Security delivery

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Sprezzatura is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to lead and implement advanced cybersecurity delivery across programs in the U.S. You will strengthen security collaboration, drive RMF and A&A activities, and advance automation and AI to improve efficiency and compliance.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong governance, and cross-functional partnership with COEs, architecture, and program teams.