Senior Security Controls Assessor

🕒 July 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $141k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Avint

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

🔒 Cybersecurity

Consulting • Defense • Cybersecurity

Avint is a cybersecurity consulting firm that specializes in delivering transformational solutions to defense, intelligence, and national security sectors. Founded by a leader in the cybersecurity industry, Avint offers innovative, intuitive cybersecurity services to federal agencies and commercial organizations, helping them secure their systems against cyber threats. The company is woman-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned, with a team of expert cybersecurity practitioners, including cyber engineers, data scientists, and strategists. Avint focuses on building, sustaining, and optimizing cybersecurity solutions for critical infrastructures, offering services from strategy and operations to compliance validation and management consulting.

📋 Description

• Avint is seeking a highly motivated Senior Security Controls Assessor (SCA) in support of a critical federal contract. • The Senior SCA is a subject matter expert responsible for executing comprehensive, independent assessments of the organization’s most complex information systems, applications, and cloud infrastructures. • Operating as a senior-level individual contributor, this role focuses on verifying the implementation, correctness, and effectiveness of technical, operational, and management security controls. • The Senior SCA handles the most complex, critical, or sensitive system assessments, serving as a technical mentor to junior assessors and a primary technical advisor to system owners during the Risk Management Framework (RMF) lifecycle.

🎯 Requirements

• Education: • · Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) OR equivalent professional experience. • · Security+; higher certifications such as CISSP, CAP, or CASP desired. • Experience: • · Minimum of 8-10 years of dedicated experience in cybersecurity, information assurance, or IT auditing. • · At least six (6) years of dedicated experience performing hands-on security controls assessments of the most complex (C4) systems. • Clearance Requirements: • · Must be a U.S. citizen (no dual citizenship). • · Ability to pass a background investigation. • · Able to obtain and maintain DHS Suitability/Entry on Duty (EOD). • Soft Skills: • · Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with a high level of technical professional skepticism. · Excellent technical writing skills, with the ability to clearly document complex technical findings and defend assessment results to stakeholders. · Exceptional interpersonal and diplomatic skills, allowing for productive collaboration with system administrators, developers, and management.

🏖️ Benefits

• Joining Avint is a win-win proposition! You will feel the personal touch of a small business and receive BIG business benefits, from competitive salaries, full health insurance, generous time off, and observation of federal holidays. Additionally, we encourage every Avint employee to further their professional development. To assist you in achieving your goals, we offer reimbursement for courses, exams, and tuition.