Senior Cyber Defense Architect – DoD RMF, Onsite

Cybersecurity Jobs; Riverdale (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks a Senior Cyber Security Analyst (Wasatch ISSE) to support IS Governance, Risk & Compliance at Hill AFB, UT with onsite work. You will design and maintain security controls for classified systems, conduct risk assessments, and support RMF certification activities.

Responsibilities include incident response, forensics, and implementing security across CI/CD pipelines with SAST/DAST. Requires DoD 8570-M certification and active clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Active final Secret clearance required on date of hire.
• DoD 8570.01-M IAT II or IAM Level I (or higher) certs such as Security+ CE, CySA+, CASP+, CISSP.
• Proven experience leading large-scale information security projects in defense/aerospace.
• Experience designing secure networks with Zero Trust and cloud security on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Strong knowledge of NIST 800-53/800-171, ISO 27001, CMMC, SOC 2.
• Hands-on with SIEM (Splunk, Sentinel), EDR/XDR, firewalls, Nessus, Qualys.
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD with SAST and DAST.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls and architectures for classified information systems and networks.
• Perform risk and vulnerability assessments, threat modeling, and security audits; provide mitigation to ISSM and leadership.
• Develop and maintain BoE artifacts (SSPs, POA&Ms, ST&E) and support RMF activities.
• Lead or support incident response and digital forensics for high-severity events; perform root cause analyses.
• Use SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewalls, and scanners to monitor and remediate threats across classified/unclassified environments.
• Translate mission needs into a security roadmap; communicate cyber risk to non-technical leadership.

Skills

Cross-Domain Solutions (CDS)

Air-gapped networks

Security leadership

ISSE

Python

Go

PowerShell

Terraform

Ansible

PKI

HSMs

Quantum-resistant encryption

Red teaming

Threat hunting

ML/AI in security

SOAR

CI/CD security (SAST/DAST)

Education

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

Tools

Splunk

Sentinel

Nessus

Qualys

SAST

DAST

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Go

PowerShell

PKI

HSMs

Zero Trust

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD tooling (SAST/DAST)

Job description

SAIC seeks a Senior Cyber Security Analyst (Wasatch ISSE) to support IS Governance, Risk & Compliance at Hill AFB, UT with onsite work. You will design and maintain security controls for classified systems, conduct risk assessments, and support RMF certification activities.

Responsibilities include incident response, forensics, and implementing security across CI/CD pipelines with SAST/DAST. Requires DoD 8570-M certification and active clearance.