Cybersecurity Assessments Lead

AGE Solutions is looking for a Cybersecurity Assessments Lead to join our team in support of an upcoming cybersecurity risk management and assessment program with our DoD customer. In this role you will lead a team of Assessors responsible for Cybersecurity Assessments and Authorization (A&A), Risk Management, Information Assurance (IA) Support, and Risk Adjudication and Connection services.

Individuals in this role must be able and willing to travel extensively, approximately 85%.

Position Responsibilities:

• Establish, develop, and implement enterprise IA and security standards and procedures.
• Coordinate and evaluate organizational security programs.
• Identify, report, and resolve security violations.
• Assess and satisfy IA/security requirements based on user, policy, regulatory, and resource needs.
• Conduct cybersecurity assessments, audits, and inspections for DoD entities and affiliated organizations.
• Evaluate systems and Defensive Cyberspace Operations using cyber threat emulation and performance-based testing.
• Follow policies and process guidelines for each assessment type.
• Support assessment processes, ensuring security expertise in cyber evaluations.
• Lead SCA Team logistics, test plans, and scope.
• Perform vulnerability assessments and document results using designated tools (e.g., STIG Viewer, eMASS).
• Analyze security vulnerabilities, recommend mitigations, and provide guidance.
• Identify security gaps in architecture and make recommendations.
• Validate cybersecurity controls, policies, and best practices based on DoD and NIST frameworks.
• Provide analysis of assessment results and risk information for authorization recommendations.
• Define, review, and document applicable controls for compliance status.
• Participate in assessment meetings, including in-briefs, out-briefs, and daily reviews.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field
• Ten (10) or more years of IT program/project management experience leading audits and inspections with at least five (5) years (of the ten total) in a DoD/Federal environment.
• Have an active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• DoD 8570 IAM/IA Technical (IAT) Level III certification.
• Demonstrated experience with STIGs (Security Technical Implementation Guides), Security Requirement Guides (SRGs), Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) and cybersecurity best practices
• Advanced understanding of the RMF process, NIST SP 800- 37, NIST SP 800-53, CNSSI 1253
• Advanced understanding of key technologies areas/domain such as: Network, Mobility, Windows, UNIX, Cloud Environments and Cloud Native Tools/Services, Host Based Security System (HBSS)/Endpoint Security Solutions (ESS), Databases, Applications
• Experience leading and managing large, distributed teams
• Demonstrated experience with applying compliance standards to large and complex IT environments.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls and standards to ensure compliancy IAW the applicable audits and inspections for an organization.
• Demonstrated expert level understanding of vulnerabilities/weaknesses across complex IT environments and ability to understand applicability of security standards across technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with data analysis and developing work products to enable Government risk-based decisions.
• Demonstrated experience with the development and execution of knowledge management best practices and the automation of knowledge management frameworks to enhance processes and procedures related to the management of a project.

Compensation: $155,000 - $170,000