Senior RMF & Cybersecurity Architect (Hybrid/Remote)

Boston Government Services, LLC (BGS); Knoxville (TN); Hybrid; USD 157,213 - 184,956; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Vacation

401K Plan

Long and Short-Term Disability

Job summary

Boston Government Services, LLC (BGS) is expanding its Evergreen Talent Pool to identify qualified candidates for a Senior RMF Lead / Cybersecurity Architect role. The position supports clients across the United States with architecture guidance for systems, applications, and cloud services, focusing on RMF lifecycle activities and risk-based decisions.

The candidate should have strong writing skills, experience with NIST standards, and the ability to translate complex technical details into

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Experience supporting RMF, A&A, security architecture, or federal cybersecurity engineering programs.
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, FISMA, FedRAMP, cloud security, Zero Trust, identity, privileged access, and continuous monitoring.
• Ability to translate technical system details into authorization-ready documentation and risk-based recommendations.
• Experience working with system owners, ISSOs, security engineers, privacy stakeholders, and authorizing officials.
• Strong technical writing and architecture documentation skills.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Successful drug screening.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security or clearance badge.

Responsibilities

• Provide cybersecurity architecture guidance for client systems, applications, cloud services, and supporting infrastructure.
• Support RMF lifecycle activities including categorization, control selection, tailoring, implementation guidance, assessment preparation, authorization package review, and continuous monitoring.
• Advise system owners, ISSOs, engineers, and stakeholders on security controls, authorization boundaries, inheritance, overlays, and risk management.
• Support development and review of SSPs, architecture diagrams, authorization boundary diagrams, risk documentation, control evidence, POA&Ms, and related RMF artifacts.
• Help identify architecture gaps and recommend improvements to enhance visibility, compliance, resilience, and risk reduction.
• Support Zero Trust architecture implementation, privileged access control design, and cloud/on-premise security patterns.
• Provide technical thought leadership, risk mitigation recommendations, and architecture briefings.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Boston Government Services, LLC (BGS) is expanding its Evergreen Talent Pool to identify qualified candidates for a Senior RMF Lead / Cybersecurity Architect role. The position supports clients across the United States with architecture guidance for systems, applications, and cloud services, focusing on RMF lifecycle activities and risk-based decisions.

The candidate should have strong writing skills, experience with NIST standards, and the ability to translate complex technical details into