Technical Consultant, FedRAMP & Security Assessments

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Coalfire is seeking a technically strong Consultant to join our FedRAMP Assessment team in the United States. You will work with federal compliance programs, review artifacts, and guide clients through evidence-based assessments under senior mentorship.

Responsibilities include independent research, scripting for data analysis, and preparing findings that support control implementations. Travel up to 20% may be required.

Qualifications

• 2–3+ years in a technical IT role, with focus on security or infrastructure.
• Ability to read and interpret complex technical artifacts, logs and configs.
• Self-starter who researches configurations using vendor docs with minimal guidance.
• Strong networking knowledge including TCP/IP, routing, ACLs, and segmentation.
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, scripting, and vulnerability management.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on federal compliance assessments (FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, FISMA) and help plan client assessments.
• Review artifacts and determine evidence supports control implementations.
• Assess IaC templates and deployment scripts for secure baselines.
• Use scripting to parse large artifact sets to support control testing.
• Research unfamiliar technologies and relate findings to control requirements.
• Analyze network traffic and common services to identify gaps between docs and implementation.
• Lead interviews with client engineers and document findings for audits.
• Prepare and review assessment reports and recommendations.

Skills

FedRAMP know-how

NIST 800-171

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Linux/Windows

IaC templates

Network fundamentals

Vulnerability scans

Artifact review

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Coalfire is seeking a technically strong Consultant to join our FedRAMP Assessment team in the United States. You will work with federal compliance programs, review artifacts, and guide clients through evidence-based assessments under senior mentorship.

Responsibilities include independent research, scripting for data analysis, and preparing findings that support control implementations. Travel up to 20% may be required.