IT Risk and Compliance Specialist Principal

TSS is proactively seeking Principal-level IT Risk and Compliance Security Analysts to support upcoming and ongoing federal programs across civilian and defense agencies. In this senior individual contributor role, you will serve as a technical ISSO, leading governance, compliance, and continuous monitoring activities for complex information systems hosted in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

You will translate federal requirements into actionable technical baselines, drive the full RMF lifecycle, and partner with engineering teams to maintain secure, resilient, mission-enabling technologies and support ATO issuance and maintenance.

Key ResponsibilitiesRMF Execution & Authorization Lifecycle

• Execute RMF steps (Categorization through Continuous Monitoring) per NIST SP 800-37.
• Author and maintain SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, ISCPs, and supporting authorization artifacts.
• Establish evidentiary libraries and audit records within program repositories (e.g., SharePoint, agency GRC tools).
• Coordinate with SCAs and AOs during assessments and finding adjudication.
• Lead and sustain continuous monitoring through baseline reviews and periodic control assessments.
  

Security Governance & Compliance

• Serve as the primary advisor on system security posture, threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance requirements.
• Interpret, implement, and validate NIST SP 800-53 and 800-171 controls across multi-cloud environments.
• Develop and update security documentation, test plans, and continuous monitoring artifacts.
• Prepare for and respond to internal/external audits and compliance evaluations.
• Drive security-driven configuration changes and accreditation updates in collaboration with system owners and engineers.
• Engineering Interface & Technical Compliance
• Analyze outputs from vulnerability scanners, container security tools, and static analysis utilities; prioritize remediation with engineering.
• Assess IaC templates (Terraform/CloudFormation) and cloud configurations against DISA STIGs and CIS Benchmarks.
• Review IAM, network ACLs, boundary protections, and FIPS-compliant cryptography implementations.
• Ensure automated compliance auditing and logging are integrated into delivery pipelines.
  

Security Tools & Operations

• Review vulnerability, EDR, and SIEM outputs; drive risk-based remediation.
• Investigate potential incidents with SOC/engineering and document actions according to agency timelines.
• Audit logs to detect compliance issues or abnormal activity; verify secure recovery and configuration restoration.
• Oversee decommissioning activities and media sanitization aligned to NIST SP 800-88.
  

Authorization to Operate (ATO) Leadership

• Lead teams through ATO preparation, readiness reviews, assessment support, and findings adjudication.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, assessors, and program leadership to achieve and sustain ATOs.
  
• Risk Management & Security Strategy
  Evaluate architecture, processes, and controls to identify gaps; develop mitigation strategies and decision briefs.
• Provide guidance to engineering, program management, and customer leadership on cybersecurity priorities.
• Data Privacy
• Perform Privacy Threshold Analyses and support PIAs to track CUI/PII and mission-sensitive data.
• Enforce role-based access, regular access reviews, and MFA/password policy requirements.
• Monitor retention and disposal aligned with security and privacy controls.
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Cybersecurity, or related field (or 10+ years of enterprise IT/security experience).
• 8+ years of federal cybersecurity compliance experience, with 4+ years as an ISSO or equivalent technical compliance role.
• Demonstrated delivery of at least one federal information system through initial authorization or re-authorization under NIST SP 800-37.
• Technical literacy across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP; ability to review architecture diagrams, infrastructure settings, and control outputs.
• Experience evaluating scan data from enterprise tools (Qualys, Tenable/Nessus, CrowdStrike, Splunk).
  
• Direct experience applying DISA STIGs and SCAP content to system baselines.
• Active DoD 8570/8140 IAM Level III certification (e.g., CISSP, CISM, or GSLC).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (Secret or Top Secret, per program).
  

Preferred Qualifications

Active Secret or Top Secret clearance.

Experience maintaining authorization packages and evidentiary files in SharePoint or agency GRC tools.

Hands-on with federal/commercial GRC platforms (Archer, CSAM, ServiceNow IRM, Xacta).

Cloud security/architecture certifications (AWS Security Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Security Engineer, Google Associate Cloud Engineer).

Experience with Kubernetes/Docker, container security, or serverless baselines.

Familiarity with CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, and FedRAMP authorization structures.

Project management skills with demonstrated experience developing security solutions and security-related projects.

Tools & Platforms

Qualys VMDR, Tenable/Nessus, CrowdStrike Falcon, Splunk Enterprise/Cloud; cloud-native security tooling across AWS, Azure, GCP