Cyber Mission Specialist

Booz Allen Hamilton • Edwards AFB, CA

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About The Position

Cyber Mission Specialist The Opportunity: Cyber threats are constant, adaptive, and often ambiguous, and you know battles are won in the grey. As a Cyber Mission Specialist and information system security officer (ISSO) at Booz Allen, you’ll apply your information system security expertise to keep mission systems ready, resilient, and authorized to operate. We’re looking for an experienced ISSO who can turn complex risk into actionable plans, align security controls to mission needs, and brief leadership with clarity and confidence. In this role, you’ll be counted on to evaluate potential weaknesses, design and implement mitigations, and orchestrate continuous monitoring that protects critical systems. You’ll leverage cyber operations tooling and data pipelines, including vulnerability scanners, STIG checkers, and SIEMs, to aggregate threat and compliance feeds, then translate findings into decision-ready briefings for senior leaders aligned to client or mission areas. This is your opportunity to use research and analysis to assess dynamic adversary TTPs, convert them into implementable control requirements, and guide system owners through RMF artifacts and milestones from categorization through authorization and continuous monitoring. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers and stakeholders across directorates influencing critical cyber missions and ensuring sustained ATO. What You’ll Work On: Partner with system owners to implement and document NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls. Lead RMF execution, including developing and maintaining SSP, POA&M, Security Assessment Reports, and Continuous Monitoring. Coordinate vulnerability and configuration management. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity
• 3+ years of experience executing the Risk Management Framework
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 control families and assessment procedures
• Ability to articulate security requirements and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to convert findings into clear POA&Ms and briefings
• Secret clearance
• HS diploma or GED

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading small teams through assessment and authorization and continuous monitoring cycles
• Experience identifying gaps in security posture and proposing solutions
• Ability to drive cross-functional risk decisions, balance mission delivery with compliance, and mentor junior analysts on control implementation quality
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field
• Security+, CISSP, CAP, CCSP, GSLC, or GSEC Certification

Responsibilities

• Partner with system owners to implement and document NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls.
• Lead RMF execution, including developing and maintaining SSP, POA&M, Security Assessment Reports, and Continuous Monitoring.
• Coordinate vulnerability and configuration management.

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
• recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.
• Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED