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Staff/Principal Security Engineer (U. S. Air Force)

Skylight Health · United States · On-site

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About Skylight Health

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About the role

At Skylight, security engineers stay up to date with the cutting edge of security and help teams implement new processes, tools, and remediations. They’re familiar with modern software development and work in cross-functional teams to inform and guide security best practices at all stages of the software development life cycle.

What they're looking for

  • Experience taking systems through RMF and ATO, ideally in a DoD context, including authoring the control implementation and body of evidence
  • Able to detect risks by continually reviewing all aspects of the application for vulnerabilities and enumerating them
  • Able to mitigate and prevent risks by proactively working with teams to build secure and compliant systems
  • Familiarity with common sources of vulnerability information
  • Familiarity with regulatory requirements regarding security and compliance
  • Experience working in agile software development
More about this role

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today’s digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters.

At Skylight, security engineers stay up to date with the cutting edge of security and help teams implement new processes, tools, and remediations. They’re familiar with modern software development and work in cross-functional teams to inform and guide security best practices at all stages of the software development life cycle.

Skylight has partnered with the U.S. Air Force across multiple legacy modernization efforts. The work spans modernization of legacy systems, new capability development in multi-vendor environments, iteration on established platforms, all inside an agile transformation and broader organizational change.

You’ll be the security voice across several modernization efforts: assessing legacy applications, guiding teams toward...

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