Security Automation / Cyber Security Engineer

Sprezzatura is seeking a Security Automation / Cyber Security Engineer to support cybersecurity modernization for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ VA.gov Platform. The role builds automation and data capabilities for security evidence collection, control assessment, compliance measurement, vulnerability reporting, SBOM operations, and security posture visibility.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated processes for collecting security and compliance evidence from authoritative system, infrastructure, configuration, and security data sources
• Develop automation to support security control assessment and continuous monitoring, including OSCAL-based evidence collection and control-assessment capabilities
• Build integrations and data pipelines that aggregate and normalize security information from multiple tools, platforms, and APIs
• Develop security metrics and dashboards that provide near-real-time visibility into control posture, remediation status, vulnerabilities, and other security indicators
• Automate recurring security and compliance reporting for security teams, engineering teams, program leadership, and government stakeholders
• Develop capabilities for measuring security-control and security-tooling coverage across applications, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines
• Automate vulnerability and remediation reporting to support prioritization, ownership, aging analysis, and tracking through closure
• Support implementation and operation of an SBOM capability, including collection and analysis of software dependency and third-party component data
• Integrate SBOM and software supply-chain information with vulnerability management and security reporting capabilities
• Partner with DevSecOps Engineers to ensure security controls implemented within CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure generate usable, repeatable compliance evidence
• Identify manual security and compliance processes that are candidates for automation and implement scalable solutions where feasible
• Support the development of repeatable processes that enable product and engineering teams to demonstrate continued compliance with defined security standards
• Ensure automated security evidence, metrics, and reporting are traceable, maintainable, and usable during ongoing compliance activities and independent controls assessments
• Document automation, integrations, data sources, processes, and technical solutions to support long-term sustainment by the Platform Security team
• Collaborate with security engineers, cybersecurity/RMF specialists, DevSecOps engineers, software engineers, product teams, and government stakeholders

Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Required)
• Associate's degree and four (4) years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's degree and two (2) years of relevant experience
• Five (5) years of experience as a Cyber Security Engineer may be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Experience developing automation using Python, JavaScript, or another scripting/programming language
• Experience integrating data from APIs, cloud platforms, CI/CD systems, security tools, or other technical systems
• Experience designing or developing automated workflows, data pipelines, dashboards, metrics, or reporting solutions
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts including security controls, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, and compliance
• Experience working with modern software development and CI/CD practices
• Ability to analyze security and technical data and translate it into meaningful metrics and actionable information
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across security, engineering, product, and program teams
• Ability to obtain and maintain the background investigation and access required to support Department of Veterans Affairs systems
• Experience supporting federal cybersecurity programs or systems operating under the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 security controls
• Experience with OSCAL or other machine-readable approaches to security compliance and control assessment
• Experience automating security evidence collection, continuous monitoring, or compliance assessment
• Experience with AWS security and configuration data, including services such as AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, or similar cloud-native security tooling
• Experience integrating security capabilities into or extracting security data from GitHub Actions or other CI/CD platforms
• Experience with SAST, DAST, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), secrets detection, container scanning, or other application security tooling
• Experience implementing or working with Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) standards and tooling
• Experience with software supply-chain security and dependency or third-party component risk analysis
• Experience developing security posture, vulnerability management, or compliance dashboards
• Familiarity with federal ATO processes, POA&Ms, control implementation evidence, and independent controls assessments
• Experience working within large-scale cloud platforms or environments supporting multiple independent product and engineering teams