Job Title: Cybersecurity Engineer
Clearance: Secret or Top-Secret (TS)
Location: Pentagon - Arlington/Crystal City, VA
Work Schedule: On-site, 5 days/week
Salary Range: $110k-$120K
Application Deadline: September 30, 2026
Description:
The Cybersecurity Engineer supports the assessment, hardening, remediation, and reporting of cybersecurity posture across DoD enterprise systems. The role requires hands-on experience with RMF-related security artifacts, DISA STIG compliance, enterprise security tools, and clear communication with both technical personnel and program leadership. DISA identifies eMASS and ACAS among its supported cybersecurity services, while STIGs provide DoD configuration-hardening guidance.
Core Responsibilities- Perform technical cybersecurity assessments of servers, endpoints, applications, network devices, and other enterprise information systems using DISA STIGs, ACAS, Axonius, Evaluate-STIG, Trellix, and other approved Enterprise Security Services (ESS) tools.
- Analyze scan results, configuration findings, asset inventory data, and security-control evidence to identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, compliance gaps, and remediation priorities.
- Develop, maintain, and update RMF and authorization artifacts in eMASS, including control implementation statements, assessment evidence, POA&Ms, risk records, and remediation status.
- Support Cyber Command Readiness Inspection/Operational Readiness Inspection activities, including CCORI-related preparation, evidence collection, technical validation, corrective-action tracking, and post-assessment remediation.
- Support Cyber Hardening Mission activities by validating secure configurations, coordinating technical remediation, documenting exceptions, and tracking risk acceptance or mitigation actions.
- Correlate ACAS vulnerability data, STIG assessment results, Axonius asset-discovery data, Trellix security telemetry, and other ESS outputs to provide a complete view of enterprise cyber risk.
- Create data-driven reports, dashboards, trackers, and remediation metrics using advanced Microsoft Office tools, especially Excel formulas, pivot tables, lookups, data analysis functions, charts, and PowerPoint briefing materials.
- Brief technical teams, system owners, ISSMs/ISSOs, program managers, and senior leadership on assessment results, cyber risk, trends, remediation progress, and decisions needed.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, network, cloud, application, endpoint, and security operations teams to validate findings and resolve vulnerabilities within required timelines.
- Maintain assessment artifacts and documentation in accordance with contract, organizational, DoD, and RMF requirements.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of cybersecurity engineering, security assessment, vulnerability management, or RMF experience in a DoD or federal enterprise environment.
- Hands-on experience using eMASS to support RMF packages, security controls, assessment evidence, POA&Ms, and authorization activities.
- Experience conducting technical assessments using DISA STIGs, ACAS, Axonius, Evaluate-STIG, Trellix, and/or comparable enterprise cybersecurity tools.
- Experience supporting CCORI/CCRI/CORA-type inspections, cyber readiness assessments, Cyber Hardening Mission efforts, or similar enterprise compliance and operational-risk initiatives. CCORI programs emphasize mission, threat, and vulnerability analysis in evaluating operational cyber risk.
- Strong knowledge of vulnerability management, secure configuration validation, asset management, remediation verification, risk analysis, and cybersecurity reporting.
- Advanced Microsoft Office proficiency, including Excel and creation of executive-ready PowerPoint briefings.
- Communicate complex technical issues, risk impacts, and remediation recommendations clearly to engineers, system owners, program managers, and senior leaders.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, maintain detailed records, and operate effectively in a mission-focused environment.
- Active DoD Secret clearance, or ability to obtain and maintain one, as required by the contract.
Preferred Qualifications- Current DoD 8140-aligned cybersecurity qualification or certification appropriate to the assigned work role and proficiency level. DoD workforce guidance requires assigned personnel to meet qualification and continuing professional-development requirements associated with their designated work roles.
- Experience with NIST RMF, NIST SP 800-53 controls, control assessments, security test procedures, POA&M management, and authorization-to-operate support.
- Experience supporting DISA, Army, Navy, Air Force, Fourth Estate, or other DoD enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with SCAP Compliance Checker, STIG Viewer, Tenable SecurityCenter/Nessus, Splunk, ServiceNow, Power BI, and vulnerability remediation workflow automation.
- Experience developing cyber metrics for leadership, such as CAT I-III vulnerability trends, STIG compliance percentages, overdue remediation rates, asset accountability, and POA&M aging.
- Experience supporting cloud, hybrid-cloud, on-premises data-center, or large-scale enterprise environments.
