Senior Vulnerability Lead for Federal Cybersecurity

NTT DATA, Inc.; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k with company match

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Job summary

NTT DATA Services in Arlington, VA is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity - Vulnerability management to guide the vulnerability program for federal systems. The role provides leadership, hands-on expertise, and coordinates with IT, security and compliance teams to ensure RMF, FISMA, HIPAA, and agency requirements are met and ATO readiness maintained.

As a senior leader, you will drive incident response planning, continuous monitoring, risk scoring, and the implementation of enterprise security controls

Qualifications

• Master's Degree; 1.5 years of additional experience can substitute for 1 year of a typical degree program.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience performing the cybersecurity and team lead tasks/responsibilities listed above
• Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance
• Hybrid role requiring 4 days onsite in Arlington, VA.

Responsibilities

• Lead full lifecycle NIST RMF activities, including categorization, control implementation, security assessment, POA&M management, and ATO sustainment.
• Ensure compliance with federal security standards such as FISMA, HIPAA, and agency-specific security policies.
• Coordinate with assessment and authorization stakeholders to maintain documentation, respond to findings, and support audits and system reviews.
• Review scan results, validate findings, determine criticality, and coordinate remediation with system owners and operations teams.
• Develop and maintain processes for continuous monitoring, risk scoring, and reporting to leadership.
• Integrate threat intelligence platforms to identify emerging risks and drive proactive mitigation strategies.
• Support security audits, penetration tests, and secure configuration enforcement.
• Lead coordination with internal security teams, IT operations, legal/compliance, and government stakeholders to ensure proper handling, documentation, and reporting.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and improve incident response plans and playbooks.
• Guide the implementation and maintenance of security controls across infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments.
• Provide expertise in secure architecture, configuration management, identity and access management, and audit log review.
• Analyze system changes for security impacts and support change control processes.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and security optimization across the program.
• Supervise cybersecurity engineers and specialists, providing mentorship, task direction, and performance oversight.
• Facilitate collaboration with network, server, cloud, and application teams to ensure timely vulnerability remediation and control implementation.
• Support program-level coordination activities, including reporting, stakeholder briefings, and cross-team integration efforts.

Skills

Nessus

SIEM platforms

Security automation

Threat intelligence

Incident response planning

Secure architecture

Identity and access management

Audit log review

Education

Master's degree

Tools

Nessus

agency-approved scanners

endpoint protection

IDS/IPS

Job description

NTT DATA Services in Arlington, VA is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity - Vulnerability management to guide the vulnerability program for federal systems. The role provides leadership, hands-on expertise, and coordinates with IT, security and compliance teams to ensure RMF, FISMA, HIPAA, and agency requirements are met and ATO readiness maintained.

As a senior leader, you will drive incident response planning, continuous monitoring, risk scoring, and the implementation of enterprise security controls