Senior Cybersecurity Engineer — RMF & Compliance Lead

NOVA DINE LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 183,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life and disability coverage

Retirement savings with company match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Diné Development Corporation (DDC) seeks a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to provide senior cybersecurity engineering, assessment, risk, policy, and testing expertise to protect government systems and data. The role supports NIST, FISMA, NSS, and related federal requirements across classified and unclassified environments.

Responsibilities include developing SOPs, conducting hands-on testing, analyzing risks, and briefing leadership.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in IT, cybersecurity, CS or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of cybersecurity experience.
• Secret clearance or higher required.
• CISSP or equivalent certification.
• Strong RMF, FISMA, risk-analysis, and SSP/ATO knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide enhancement capabilities and SOPs for cybersecurity assessment operations.
• Maintain integrity and confidentiality of assessment processes; analyze vulnerabilities.
• Review requirements specs, system architectures, design docs, test plans, security plans, and other program-level cybersecurity documentation.
• Develop security evaluation test plans, procedures, and assessment methodologies.
• Research, develop information security policies, procedures, guidance, and governance artifacts.
• Conduct hands-on security testing; document risk; identify threats and mitigations.
• Coordinate security testing with ISSOs, system owners, architecture and engineering teams.
• Lead technical exchange meetings; document actions and brief leadership on findings.
• Provide oversight for design, development and implementation of security-related support systems.
• Support RMF, ATO/RMF documentation, remediation planning and secure baselines.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Security clearance

RMF knowledge

FISMA knowledge

Vulnerability management

Security testing

Communication (technical)

Education

Master’s degree in IT/Cybersecurity/CS/Business

Tools

CISSP certification

Job description

Diné Development Corporation (DDC) seeks a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to provide senior cybersecurity engineering, assessment, risk, policy, and testing expertise to protect government systems and data. The role supports NIST, FISMA, NSS, and related federal requirements across classified and unclassified environments.

Responsibilities include developing SOPs, conducting hands-on testing, analyzing risks, and briefing leadership.