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Cyber Security Assessment & Authorization Analyst

United States, Rockville · Job Posted March 19, 2026
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The Cyber Security Assessment & Authorization Analyst role at NTT DATA involves leading assessment and authorization efforts for various agency systems, ensuring compliance with NIST standards. Candidates should have a minimum of 8 years of experience in cyber security and a bachelor's degree in a related field. The position requires strong leadership and communication skills, along with expertise in security control assessments and cloud environments.

Job Responsibility

  • Support a client as an assessment and authorization (A&A) analyst, including A&A efforts for various agency systems
  • Leads the team on ISSO and Assessors in the day to day tasks
  • Maintain responsibility for supporting federal clients obtaining the authority to operate (ATO) for new and modernized systems
  • Serve as senior team lead providing guidance and working with team members in performance/delivery of all assigned A&A efforts
  • Adhere to the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) to support the A&A process, including analyzing the development of supporting policies, procedures, and plans, designing and implementing security controls, testing and validating security controls, and analyzing and tracking corrective action plans
  • Ensure all supporting artifacts and results will be documented in the A&A repository
  • Performing security controls assessments on security boundaries and producing required security documentation
  • Experience with NIST special publications (SPs) regarding the SA process, including SP 800-53, SP 800-137, and SP 800-37
  • Experience with continuous monitoring and plans of action and milestones (POA&M) management
  • Experience with assessing systems deployed in Cloud Environments

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related cybersecurity discipline
  • Minimum 8 years of experience with assessment and accreditation (A&A)
  • Minimum 8 years of experience as a security control assessor or validator
  • Minimum 8 years of experience with maintaining IT security policies, processes, and guidance
  • Minimum 3 years of experience with using GRC tool – CSAM
  • Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance

Nice to have

Experience with using continuous monitoring tools to assist with the automation of assessment efforts and with A&A of cloud-platforms

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