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# Cybersecurity Assess and Auth. Specialist

- **Company:** The Information Technology
- **Location:** Philadelphia, PA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Identity and Access Management, Information Technology, Process Control Systems, Operational Systems
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a0fbb0c28f29f84e

## About the Role

* Must possess IT-II security clearance or have a current National Agency Check with Local Agency Check and Credit Check (NACLC). (Basic Federal Clearance requirements are U.S. Citizenship, clear criminal history check, no recent or pending bankruptcies)
 * Five (5) years of relevant C&A experience.
 * Must have an IAM Level III certification.
 * Must have Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST C&A experience.
 * Must have DOD cybersecurity experience.
 * Experience in assessing security controls and conducting authorization reviews for large, complex organizations.
 * Experienced in the general tenets supporting the overall DOD implementation of its authorization process, to include supporting cybersecurity policy, procedures, and processes.
 * Knowledgeable in the cybersecurity of emerging technology areas such as Cloud and Industrial Control Systems (ICSs), warehouse execution systems and Operational Technology (OT) infrastructures.
 * Excellent oral and written communication skills.

## Description

* Serves as a cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert (SME) with regards to Assessment and Authorization
 * (A&A) of information systems and all associated cybersecurity policies and procedures.
 * Executes DoW/DLA cybersecurity processes to authorize information systems, maintain authorization of information systems, or serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for systems undergoing the authorization process.
 * Possess an understanding of how security controls identified in the NIST 800-53 apply to the process of assessing and authorizing a large organization's IT infrastructure such as DLA, in which there is a compilation of large and small enclaves, Cloud Hosted Services, Operational Technology, AIS applications and outsourced IT processes.
 * Determines the residual risk of an identified vulnerability (e.g., non-compliant security control) and determines the possible ramifications on the system's current or future authorization.
 * Briefs senior management on the progress or results of an information system undergoing the Risk
 * Management Framework (RMF) process.


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