Cybersecurity Compliance & Continuous Monitoring Analyst
GDIT · USA VA McLean · Posted 2026-09-05
Job description
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Cyber and IT Risk Management Job Qualifications: Skills: Continuous Monitoring, Cybersecurity Compliance, DISA STIG, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Certifications: None Experience: 8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes Job Description: CYBER TECHNICAL ANALYST SR PRINCIPAL Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Cyber Technical Analyst Sr Principal at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Cyber Technical Analyst Sr Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our customer’s classified commercial cloud environment. You will play a crucial role in securing and continuously monitoring a classified workstation secure enclave, ensuring it meets stringent FedRAMP and CNSSI 1253 requirements while enabling mission-critical operations. • Support the full RMF and Assessment & Authorization (A&A) lifecycle for the workstation secure enclave, including control implementation, assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring. • Maintain a comprehensive body of evidence for FedRAMP/DoW A&A packages and continuous monitoring requirements, including POA&M tracking, reporting, and remediation. • Collaborate with security engineers, system administrators, ISSO/ISSM, vendors, and leadership to integrate and validate security controls and align operations with FedRAMP, DoD, and CNSSI 1253 requirements. • Identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities using Tenable Nessus, Tenable.sc, SCC, STIG tooling, and related security tools; ensure host inventory and scan policies are accurate and complete. • Review scan results, STIG findings, and patching activities to ensure accurate, actionable data and effective hardening of operating systems, network devices, and applications. • Evaluate system designs, network architectures, firewall rules, and PPSM submissions to ensure security principles are integrated from the outset and architecture risks are addressed. • Lead preparation and execution of security control audits and FedRAMP 3PAO assessments, reviewing artifacts, logs, and configurations to validate evidence of compliance and a strong security posture. • Provide security control assessment and audit oversight, including reviewing and validating implementation work performed by engineers and system administrators. • Manage a robust continuous monitoring and GRC program, aggregating and analyzing security data to identify trends, anomalies, and potential incidents and providing actionable risk insights to leadership. • Support risk assessments and incident response, recommending mitigating controls and assisting the ISSM and incident response team with artifacts and deep system/security expertise. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED Bring your cyber expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cyber Technical Analyst Sr Principal must have: ● Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science ● Experience: 8+ years of related experience ● Technical skills: • Hands-on experience with Tenable.sc and Tenable Nessus • Progressive experience in information assurance and cybersecurity roles • Minimum of 5 years of direct, hands-on experience as an ISSO or ISSM with a proven track record of achieving and maintaining ATO for classified systems • Expert-level knowledge of the NIST SP 800 series (especially 800-37, 800-53, 800-30) and risk management principles • Experience with FedRAMP and CNSSI 1253 baselines, continuous monitoring, POA&M management, and A&A body-of-evidence documentation ● Security clearance level: Active Top Secret ● Role requirements: • On-site McLean, VA • Must be DoD 8140 / 8570.01-M compliant • CISSP strongly preferred GDIT IS YOUR PLACE At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. ● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities ● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals ● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off ● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore a career in cyber at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your focus on defending and protecting what matters. The likely salary range for this position is $158,950 - $215,050. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: Less than 10% Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA McLean Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our of