Information Systems Security Manager (ISSM)

Veilant • Tysons, VA

3d • $190,000 - $232,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Veilant is rethinking how cyber security and assurance get delivered across mission and enterprise systems, and we're looking for the person who will lead that shift. You'll be the primary security advisor and the trusted bridge between our Information Security Program and our government mission partners — the person engineering teams consult before they commit to a design, and the person our customers call when a hard question about risk or compliance lands on their desk. If you've spent years watching RMF get treated as a compliance tax and you know it can be run as a discipline that actually makes systems better, this is the role where you get to prove it.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph. This is a hard requirement — we're unable to consider candidates without a current clearance at this level.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 5+ years of progressively increasing responsibility supporting cybersecurity, information assurance, risk management, or compliance for classified and unclassified programs, within the U.S. Government or as a cleared contractor.
• Direct RMF experience — you've built ATO packages, not just contributed to them, and you've owned the relationship with an authorizing official.
• Applied technical depth in one or more of: cloud and external services, system administration, configuration management, system and network architecture, operational technology, wireless, telecommunications security, supply chain risk, or security analysis tooling (Splunk, Nessus, Wireshark, and the like).
• Communication that lands with both audiences. You can brief a room of engineers and a room of executives on the same risk, and both walk out knowing what to do next.
• Willingness to work predominantly on-site in cleared facilities in Northern Virginia.

Nice To Haves

• Experience standing up or maturing a security program rather than maintaining an established one
• CISSP, CISM, or equivalent certification
• Direct experience implementing DoD Zero Trust requirements or CMMC readiness
• A track record of turning a skeptical mission team into a partner

Responsibilities

• RMF accreditation, end to end. You are the lead for every in-scope system — authoring and maintaining System Security Plans, policies, and procedures; building ATO packages; writing the justifications; assembling evidence; walking auditors through reviews; answering the government's questions directly; and keeping continuous monitoring running long after the authorization is signed.
• Compliance integrity. You'll review systems on a regular cadence for drift from documented configurations and procedures, report what you find without softening it, and drive remediation to closure.
• Regulatory authority. You'll be the person in the building who knows what NIST CSF, SP 800-171, SP 800-53, CMMC, and the DoD Zero Trust Mandate actually require — and, more usefully, what they mean for the system in front of you.
• Security as a design input. You'll identify security requirements early and get them built into architecture rather than bolted on. You'll advise mission teams on how their work maps to authorization processes — software, wireless, cloud approvals — so nobody discovers a blocker three weeks before delivery.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO + holidays
• Generous 401k match benefit up to 10%, with an automatic 3% safe harbor contribution and additional matching based on employee contributions.
• Medical (HSA & PPO Plans Available), dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Employer Contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Professional coaching services
• Get the technology you want to do your job
• Free daily snacks & drinks

What This Job Offers

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