ATO Automation Engineer

SkyePoint Decisions

7d•Remote

About The Position

This is a contingent position based upon contract win. SkyePoint Decisions is seeking an ATO Automation Engineer to join our team supporting a federal customer. This position is contingent on contract win. This person designs and implements automation that supports customer authorization activities by integrating security evidence, assessment results, workflow status, policy checks, and decision-support information into traceable ATO processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Engineering, or related field; with 5-8+ years of experience.
Experience with RMF/ATO processes, security assessment/evidence activities, governance-risk-compliance workflows, or comparable security authorization functions.
Demonstrated ability to automate workflow, evidence, data, reporting, or compliance activities through software, scripting, APIs, or approved platforms.
Working knowledge of security controls, assessment evidence, vulnerability/security findings, traceability, and Government authorization processes.
Ability to obtain a 6c Public Trust.
At least an active Secret clearance is highly preferred.
U.S. Citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

NIST RMF and NIST SP 800-53 concepts
ATO/evidence automation
GRC or assessment workflow platforms
Python or comparable scripting
REST APIs
Security scanning/SBOM data
Jira/Confluence/GitLab
AWS

Responsibilities

Analyze authorization workflows, evidence requirements, assessment activities, control data, approvals, and recurring manual steps to identify automation opportunities.
Develop automated evidence collection, validation, normalization, routing, status tracking, and reporting capabilities using customer-approved technologies.
Integrate ATO automation with security scanning, SBOM/SCA, vulnerability, workflow, data, repository, and system-of-record capabilities as approved by the customer.
Implement rules and policy checks that support consistent assessment and authorization workflows without replacing Government decision authority.
Develop dashboards and decision-support views that expose evidence status, findings, dependencies, exceptions, and readiness information.
Collaborate with security, development, platform, integration, data, and Government stakeholders to validate automation logic and maintain traceability.
Develop automated tests, configuration documentation, runbooks, ADRs, change documentation, and release artifacts.

Benefits

certification incentive program
PTO
floating federal holiday options
several insurance options including HMO and High Deductible plans with Health Savings Accounts [HSAs]
Flex Spending Accounts [FSAs]
Full Dental Plans
Vision
ST/LT Disability
Life Insurance
401k matched