Cybersecurity Engineer
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Director of Cybersecurity
Rise8
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $200,000 - $240,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud Platform
About the role
- Drive Rise8’s cybersecurity posture and practice across delivery and client engagements. You’ll own CMMC readiness and compliance, SCG/CUI governance, and act as our cATO SME while building and scaling a high-trust Cyber Practice that supports both internal operations and customer missions. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends technical depth (architecture, DevSecOps, secure cloud operations) with program-level responsibility (SSP/POA&M ownership, audit readiness, customer briefings, staffing and capability delivery).
- Own CMMC (2.0) program delivery end-to-end — policy, System Security Plans (SSPs), POA&Ms, evidence collection, assessor engagements, and audit readiness.
- Lead SCG / CUI governance: define handling policies, training, marking/labeling guidance, and cross-contract controls.
- Serve as the company cATO SME: design and operationalize continuous Authorization-to-Operate approaches, advise customers on sustainment, and integrate continuous monitoring tooling and processes.
- Build and lead the Cyber Practice: define service offerings (advisory, readiness, implementation, managed services), craft go-to-market materials, scope engagements, and own delivery quality.
- Provide technical leadership on secure architecture, cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP), identity & access management, DevSecOps integration, vulnerability management, SIEM/SOAR operations, and incident response.
- Drive evidence collection and tooling integration to make compliance repeatable and auditable (automation of evidence, drift detection, configuration baselines).
- Support proposals, SOWs, pricing, and technical capture; brief executives and DoD/federal customers on security strategy and risk posture.
- Hire, mentor, and grow cybersecurity staff and contractors; establish OKRs, career bands, and practice playbooks.
- Partner closely with IT, Delivery, Legal, and People Ops to ensure contract-level security obligations are satisfied and sustained.
- Maintain relationships with assessors, auditors, third-party vendors, and MSSPs; select and manage partners as needed.
- Run tabletop exercises, incident post-mortems, and continuous improvement cycles to reduce risk and harden operations.
- Measure and report on cyber KPIs (POA&M closure rate, time-to-remediate, control maturity, audit status) for leadership and customers.
Requirements
- 10+ years in cybersecurity roles with a minimum of 6 years in a leadership/practice-owner or senior advisory position.
- Demonstrated ownership of CMMC readiness or equivalent federal compliance programs (NIST SP 800-171 / 800-53, DFARS 252.204-7012) — production of SSPs, POA&Ms, and assessment support.
- Hands-on experience operationalizing ATO/cATO models or frequent ATO cycles with federal customers.
- Strong technical background in cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP), IAM, DevSecOps pipelines, secure configuration baselines, logging/monitoring, and vulnerability management.
- Experience integrating SIEM/SOAR, endpoint detection, and continuous monitoring tooling into compliance programs.
- Proven ability to translate technical risk into executive-level recommendations and to present to DoD/federal stakeholders.
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and scaling technical teams and practice offerings.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong client-facing presence and capture support experience.
- Active DoD clearance preferred (Secret minimum); ability to obtain a clearance required.
Benefits
- Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce
- Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
- Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
- Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 11 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
- Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
- Home Office and Merch: We offer $750 per year for home office technology and equipment as well as $100 per year for Rise8 merch from our Swag Store.
- Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year.
- Rise8 is part of the Life Time Corporate Partner program. In lieu of your $500 annual wellness benefit, you can instead get a $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership ($900 annual benefit).
- Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro
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Hard skills
CMMCSSPPOA&MDevSecOpscloud securityAWSAzureGCPvulnerability managementSIEM
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationclient-facingtechnical advisoryprogram managementrisk assessmentteam buildingstakeholder engagementpresentation
Certifications
DoD clearanceCMMC certificationNIST SP 800-171NIST SP 800-53
