Cybersecurity SME (Hanscom AFB)

Avint • Hanscom AFB, MA

7h • $175,000 - $190,000

About The Position

Avint LLC is seeking a motivated, career- and customer-oriented Cybersecurity SME to provide support to its customer. The Cybersecurity SME serves as a cybersecurity and Risk Management Framework (RMF) expert within the technical domain and acts as a senior advisor to government cybersecurity and program leadership. The role maintains systems' security posture, supports the development and implementation of cybersecurity programs and policies, and guides system authorization and accreditation activities. The position also provides direction and oversight to lower-level cybersecurity staff and contributes to Avint's growth initiatives and professional development culture.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Master's degree in a related field.
• DoD 8570-compliant IAM Level III certification.
• 15 years of experience, including at least 5 years in the DoD.
• Expert knowledge of the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF), NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), and supporting industry publications and standards.
• Expert knowledge of cybersecurity products, tools, and applications.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present complex ideas succinctly and effectively.
• Ability to organize work and build project plans, resource plans, and schedules.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with clients, peers, and staff.
• Ability to lead teams through complex tasks with minimal direction and deliver high-quality results.
• Ability to lead working sessions, develop innovative solutions, and promote cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the overall security posture of systems within the area of responsibility.
• Assist in developing and streamlining the organization's cybersecurity program, including architecture, requirements, objectives, policies, processes, and procedures.
• Support implementation of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) to ensure compliance with cybersecurity policies.
• Support system and application authorization and accreditation (A&A), assessing and guiding the quality and completeness of A&A activities, tasks, and artifacts required by DoD and Air Force policies.
• Assist in developing and enhancing a common controls program that provides inheritability evidence to systems hosted in the environment.
• Maintain and report technology systems assessment and authorization status and issues in accordance with DoD Component guidance.
• Provide direction and oversight to lower-level cybersecurity staff to ensure adherence to established policies and procedures.
• Coordinate with the organization's security manager to address issues affecting the organization's overall security.
• Ensure Information Owners and stewards for DoD information on each DoD information system are identified to establish accountability, access approvals, and special handling requirements.
• Maintain a repository of organizational- or system-level cybersecurity documentation.
• Monitor compliance with cybersecurity policy and review monitoring results, as appropriate.
• Ensure cybersecurity inspections, tests, and reviews are synchronized and coordinated with affected parties and organizations.
• Ensure implementation of information system security measures and procedures, including reporting incidents to the Authorizing Official and appropriate reporting chains and coordinating system-level responses to unauthorized disclosures.
• Prepare and record system security information in appropriate cybersecurity repositories as required by the Authorizing Official and program office, such as eMASS.
• Author, review, certify, and/or maintain information assurance and security management plans, including RMF Implementation Plans, System Security Management Plans, Information Support Plans, Program Protection Plans, Security Risk Analyses, and Security Vulnerability and Countermeasure Analyses.
• Serve as Career Manager, responsible for performance management and professional development of lower-level staff.
• Proactively lead teams executing complex tasks with minimal direction and produce high-quality, error-free results.
• Lead working sessions to solicit ideas and develop innovative solutions, and promote collaboration across functional teams.
• Develop and present professional presentations, complex ideas, solutions, and innovations to clients and Avint leadership.
• Represent the Avint brand, embody Avint's core values, and significantly contribute to growth initiatives.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Full health benefits
• Generous Open Time off
• Federal holidays
• Reimbursement for courses, exams, and tuition
• Investment in professional development, including classes, conferences, programs, and degrees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior