Senior Remote Security & ATO Automation Engineer

skyepointdecisionsinc; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matched

PTO

Floating federal holidays

Health insurance

Job summary

SkyePoint Decisions, a leading cybersecurity and engineering services provider, seeks a Security/ATO Automation Engineer for the DoED CPSS program, supporting DoED in Washington, DC. This remote role requires a strong background in RMF/ATO processes, automation, and security governance, with a focus on traceability and compliance.

The candidate will design and implement automation that consolidates security evidence, assessment results, workflow status, policy checks, and decision-support

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering or similar roles.
• Senior certification such as CISSP is preferred.
• Experience with RMF/ATO processes and governance-risk-compliance workflows.
• Ability to automate workflow, evidence, data, reporting or compliance activities via software, scripting or APIs.

Responsibilities

• Analyze authorization workflows, evidence requirements, and control data to identify automation opportunities.
• Develop automated evidence collection, validation, normalization, routing, status tracking and reporting capabilities.
• Integrate ATO automation with security scanning, SBOM/SCA, vulnerability, workflow, data, and system-of-record capabilities.
• Implement rules and policy checks to support consistent assessment workflows without altering Government decision authority.
• Develop dashboards and decision-support views exposing evidence status, findings, dependencies, and readiness.
• Collaborate with security, development, platform, integration, data, and Government stakeholders to validate logic and maintain traceability.

Job description

SkyePoint Decisions, a leading cybersecurity and engineering services provider, seeks a Security/ATO Automation Engineer for the DoED CPSS program, supporting DoED in Washington, DC. This remote role requires a strong background in RMF/ATO processes, automation, and security governance, with a focus on traceability and compliance.

The candidate will design and implement automation that consolidates security evidence, assessment results, workflow status, policy checks, and decision-support