Salary: $160,000 - $180,000/year

Work location: Remote with possible ad hoc on site needs in Washington, DC.

Serve as the senior subject-matter expert for highly specialized risk and vulnerability assessment activities supporting Federal Student Aid. The SME provides expert technical analysis, high-level functional systems analysis, design and integration guidance, documentation, implementation advice, and solutions to exceptionally complex technical problems.

Key Responsibilities 

• Serve as the subject-matter expert for highly specialized cybersecurity risk, vulnerability, engineering, scientific, or technical domains.
• Provide expert technical knowledge and analysis of specialized applications and operational environments.
• Perform high-level functional systems analysis and provide design, integration, documentation, and implementation advice for exceptionally complex problems.
• Lead risk and vulnerability assessments involving systems, applications, architectures, operational environments, controls, threats, and technical weaknesses.
• Participate in planning, analysis, testing, integration, documentation, implementation, and presentation activities throughout the solution or software-development life cycle.
• Apply functional-area principles, methods, and advanced analytical techniques to difficult and narrowly defined engineering or scientific problems.
• Develop or recommend automated solutions that address complex technical and risk requirements.
• Integrate vulnerability, configuration, architecture, threat, incident, audit, and control-assessment information into risk determinations and recommended treatments.
• Develop and review formal risk assessments, technical analyses, executive summaries, recommendations, and supporting evidence.
• Provide technical and management leadership, establish work plans and objectives, direct staff, and brief client and senior-management stakeholders.

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• More than 10 years of experience in the subject area.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Senior industry professional certification such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or equivalent.
• Demonstrated domain expertise and technical or management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments.
• Experience establishing goals and plans that meet project objectives and directing activities to ensure technical requirements are met.
• Experience interacting with clients, conducting negotiations, and interfacing with senior management.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Education Level 6 High Risk/Public Trust suitability determination and required system-access approvals.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with NIST SP 800-30, NIST Risk Management Framework, NIST SP 800-53, vulnerability-management platforms, configuration benchmarks, POA&M processes, and enterprise risk registers.
• Experience aggregating system-level findings into enterprise risk reporting, dashboards, and Key Risk Indicators.
• Experience supporting federal agencies or other high-impact regulated environments.
• Additional certifications such as CRISC, CGRC, CISA, or equivalent.

Clearance Requirement: Ability to obtain and maintain a High Risk Public Trust suitability determination.

The salary range for this position depends upon multiple factors including location, the individual's knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, and contract-specific budget constraints and organizational requirements.
Gunnison Consulting Group's total compensation package also includes bonus and profit-sharing opportunities, depending on company and employee performance. Available employee benefits include:

• 3 weeks of Personal Leave your first year
• 11 paid Holidays each year
• 5 days of Flexible Time Off each year for approved training or certifications (self-study is ineligible)
• 401(k) company match at 50% up to 10% of your salary
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Public Transportation Subsidies
• Certifications and Training Allowance - Up to $5,000/year!

Why Join Gunnison?

• Gunnison takes on ambitious projects. We target fun, challenging work that requires creative thinking and innovation.
• Quality is our top priority.
• Gunnison employee benefits meet or exceed what other companies in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area offer.
• There is a great sense of camaraderie at Gunnison. This is an atmosphere we will maintain as we continue to grow.
• We are growing rapidly and the opportunity for individual professional growth with Gunnison is outstanding.
• We hire for careers at Gunnison, not to fill a position.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Must be eligible for employment in the United States. We are unable to sponsor candidates at this time.
In 1994 Gunnison began serving the greater Washington, D.C. metro area, focused on tackling our customers' most ambitious technology projects. By creating a culture dedicated to enabling our customers and employees to achieve more than they ever thought they could, the company has thrived for over 25 years.