Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Avint LLC is seeking a highly motivated, solution oriented, and customer-focused Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join our growing team. In this senior advisory role, you will serve as a cybersecurity and Risk Management Framework (RMF) expert, providing cutting-edge solutions and unparalleled support to government cybersecurity and program leadership at the enterprise level. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to critical missions while advancing your career with Avint.

As a Cybersecurity SME, you will be responsible for ensuring the security and compliance of enterprise systems, leading the implementation of the RMF, and offering strategic guidance across various cybersecurity initiatives. Your expertise will play a key role in strengthening our clients' cybersecurity posture, while driving the development and modernization of cybersecurity programs.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret Clearance
• Security Posture Management: Oversee the overall security posture of systems under your purview, ensuring they align with established cybersecurity standards and policies
• RMF Management: Lead the management of RMF tools and maintain assessment and authorization (A&A) status, adhering to DoD Component guidance
• Cybersecurity Program Development: Collaborate on the creation and modernization of cybersecurity programs, including architecture, requirements, objectives, policies, and processes
• Risk Management Framework (RMF) Implementation: Manage the implementation and ongoing compliance of RMF to ensure cybersecurity policy adherence
• A&A Effort Support: Guide the system/application A&A process, ensuring quality and completeness in accordance with DoD and Air Force policies (i.e., RMF)
• Team Leadership: Provide direction to lower-level cybersecurity staff, ensuring adherence to policies and procedures
• Stakeholder Coordination: Work with key stakeholders to address system security posture issues and implement corrective actions
• Continuous Monitoring: Oversee continuous monitoring tasks and evaluate results to ensure alignment with cybersecurity standards
• Cybersecurity Inspections & Reviews: Coordinate cybersecurity inspections, tests, and reviews with all affected parties to ensure compliance
• Incident Reporting & Response: Ensure the timely reporting of security incidents and coordinate system-level responses to unauthorized disclosures
• Cybersecurity Documentation: Prepare and maintain system security information and approvals, ensuring compliance with appropriate cybersecurity repositories (eMASS, etc.)
• Plan Development: Author, review, and maintain security management and awareness plans, including RMF Implementation Plans, System Security Management Plans, Program Protection Plans (PPPs), Security Risk Analyses, and more
  
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

• Education: Master's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
• Certification: DoD 8570 compliant IAM Level III certification
• Experience: 10-15 years of experience, with at least 5 years in the DoD environment
• Expert Knowledge: Deep expertise in NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF), NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), and supporting standards and publications
• Cybersecurity Tools: Advanced knowledge of cybersecurity tools such as eMASS, ACAS, STIG Viewer, and others
• Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to articulate complex ideas and solutions in clear, concise, and effective written and verbal communication
• Software Proficiency: Expert-level skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Project Management: Strong organizational skills, including the ability to build project plans, schedules, and resource plans
• Relationship Building: Proven ability to foster trusted relationships with clients, peers, and team members
• Leadership: Demonstrated leadership in executing complex tasks with minimal direction, delivering high-quality results
• Collaboration: Actively leads collaborative sessions, driving innovation and solution development across teams
• Professionalism: Experience presenting complex solutions and ideas to clients and senior leadership
• Avint Brand Ambassador: Represent Avint with pride, always embodying our core values
• Growth Contribution: Play an active role in driving growth initiatives and expanding our capabilities
  
  
  

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, and generous PTO and 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. Interested in a class, conference, program, or degree? Avint will invest in YOU and your professional development!

Avint is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class