Remote: Senior RMF & Security Compliance Lead

General Dynamics IT; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics IT in Austin, TX or remote seeks a Security Compliance Lead to drive RMF authorization, audit readiness, and POA&M management for VA workloads. You will coordinate with system owners, auditors, and cybersecurity teams to strengthen security posture and ensure governance alignment.

The role emphasizes RMF workflows, evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and clear dashboards. A strong background in NIST 800-53, federal compliance, and cross-functional collaboration is

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 5+ years of experience.
• Experience leading cybersecurity compliance, RMF, ISSO support, or A&A activities in enterprise IT environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in NIST 800-53, RMF, POA&M management, SSP development, and audit readiness.
• Strong understanding of ITSM, security operations, federal compliance frameworks, and enterprise-class system governance.
• Ability to evaluate cybersecurity documentation, authorization artifacts, risk analyses, vulnerability trends, and evidence for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
• Experience developing compliance plans, audit logs, dashboards, risk reports, POA&M packages, and corrective-action processes.
• Excellent written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate across cybersecurity, engineering, operations, audit, and federal organizations.

Responsibilities

• As Security Compliance Lead, you will manage enterprise cybersecurity compliance activities across IO, ensuring RMF execution, A&A rigor, POA&M accuracy, audit readiness, and alignment with VA governance and federal security standards.
• You will lead system authorization activities, maintain security documentation, oversee POA&M updates, coordinate continuous monitoring, validate SSPs and control evidence, and ensure vulnerability remediation cycles meet VA expectations.
• You will work closely with System Owners, Authorizing Officials, cybersecurity teams, engineers, and auditors to strengthen security posture and maintain compliance across assigned systems and boundaries.
• You will manage RMF workflows, compliance dashboards, audit preparation, scorecard reviews, and recurring reporting packages.
• You will streamline evidence collection, improve documentation quality, refine remediation processes, and embed compliance requirements throughout the system lifecycle.
• You will coordinate with hosting, database, application, cloud, and cybersecurity teams to ensure security compliance operations remain aligned, efficient, and collaborative.
• You will engage directly with VA leadership and stakeholders to clarify requirements, present RMF and audit updates, deliver POA&M reviews, and provide remediation recommendations.
• Your communication practices will strengthen transparency, trust, and confidence across VA's security compliance environment.
• You will drive continuous improvement by identifying gaps, addressing recurring findings, refining SOPs, modernizing reporting, enhancing automation of compliance workflows, and strengthening vulnerability follow-through.

Skills

Compliance Activities

Cybersecurity Compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GRC tools

Job description

General Dynamics IT in Austin, TX or remote seeks a Security Compliance Lead to drive RMF authorization, audit readiness, and POA&M management for VA workloads. You will coordinate with system owners, auditors, and cybersecurity teams to strengthen security posture and ensure governance alignment.

The role emphasizes RMF workflows, evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and clear dashboards. A strong background in NIST 800-53, federal compliance, and cross-functional collaboration is