Compliance Activities
Cybersecurity Compliance
Leadership
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Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a SECURITY COMPLIANCE LEAD supporting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects, build your skills, and grow a rewarding career.
At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a SECURITY COMPLIANCE LEAD supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Austin, Texas you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.
Join GDIT to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) through the Infrastructure Operations Support Services program.
HOW A SECURITY COMPLIANCE LEAD WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
As the Security Compliance Lead, you will manage enterprise cybersecurity compliance activities across IO, ensuring RMF execution, A&A rigor, POA&M accuracy, audit readiness, and alignment with VA governance and federal security standards.
In this role, you will lead system authorization activities, maintain security documentation, oversee POA&M updates, coordinate continuous monitoring, validate SSPs and control evidence, and ensure vulnerability remediation cycles meet VA expectations. You will work closely with System Owners, Authorizing Officials, cybersecurity teams, engineers, and auditors to strengthen security posture and maintain compliance across assigned systems and boundaries.
You will manage RMF workflows, compliance dashboards, audit preparation, scorecard reviews, and recurring reporting packages. You will streamline evidence collection, improve documentation quality, refine remediation processes, and embed compliance requirements throughout the system lifecycle. You will also coordinate with hosting, database, application, cloud, and cybersecurity teams to ensure security compliance operations remain aligned, efficient, and collaborative.
You will engage directly with VA leadership and stakeholders to clarify requirements, present RMF and audit updates, deliver POA&M reviews, and provide remediation recommendations. Your communication practices will strengthen transparency, trust, and confidence across VA’s security compliance environment.
You will drive continuous improvement by identifying gaps, addressing recurring findings, refining SOPs, modernizing reporting, enhancing automation of compliance workflows, and strengthening vulnerability follow‑through. Your leadership ensures VA’s security compliance remains accurate, resilient, policy‑aligned, and continuously improving.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5+ years of experience
• Experience leading cybersecurity compliance, RMF, ISSO support, or A&A activities in enterprise IT environments
• Demonstrated expertise in NIST 800‑53, RMF, POA&M management, SSP development, and audit readiness
• Strong understanding of ITSM, security operations, federal compliance frameworks, and enterprise‑class system governance
• Ability to evaluate cybersecurity documentation, authorization artifacts, risk analyses, vulnerability trends, and evidence for completeness, accuracy, and compliance
• Experience developing compliance plans, audit logs, dashboards, risk reports, POA&M packages, and corrective‑action processes
• Excellent written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to collaborate across cybersecurity, engineering, operations, audit, and federal organizations
Desired Qualifications
• Experience supporting VA, federal agencies, or regulated security environments
• Security certifications such as CISSP, CAP, Security+, RMF Practitioner, or similar
• Familiarity with federal cybersecurity requirements, FISMA audits, POA&M processes, boundary management, vulnerability management tools, and compliance frameworks
• Experience with GRC tools, RMF workflows, audit support platforms, and enterprise cybersecurity reporting tools
Security Clearance
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance
Location:
Austin, TX (hybrid)
No visa sponsorship is available for this position
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
• AI‑enabled professional growth tools
• Leadership development and internal mobility programs
• Competitive pay, benefits, and 401(k) match
• Mission‑focused culture supporting Veterans
• Opportunities to modernize VA’s cloud financial ecosystem and strengthen cost efficiency, accountability, and business value across nationwide operations
5 + years of related experience
* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Less than 10%
U.S. Citizenship Required
The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
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As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
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