EMERGING TECHNOLOGY / CYBERSECURITY ENGINEER

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY / CYBERSECURITY ENGINEER

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Position Overview

The Emerging Technology / Cybersecurity Engineer will support Zermount and our federal client in modernizing cybersecurity authorization, cloud security, security architecture review, and emerging technology assessment processes.

This is a senior, client-facing cybersecurity engineering and assessment role focused on helping the client securely adopt SaaS, AI-enabled technologies, cloud services, and other emerging capabilities. The position blends federal RMF and continuous ATO expertise, security architecture review, AI security testing, cloud compliance, control validation, and process modernization.

The successful candidate will help reduce authorization timelines by developing reusable security patterns, repeatable assessment baselines, structured test plans, and continuous ATO-ready evidence. The ideal candidate has strong experience in federal cybersecurity, RMF, ATO, cloud security, security architecture, SaaS/product assessments, vulnerability management, emerging technology risk, and AI security

This position requires a hands-on professional who can work across cybersecurity, engineering, procurement, legal, privacy, records management, vendor, product, and mission teams to evaluate technologies, validate controls, document risk, and accelerate secure adoption.

DutiesResponsibilities

Security Architecture Review

• Conduct Security Architecture Reviews for SaaS, cloud, AI-enabled tools, non-COTS technologies, embedded AI capabilities, operating system baselines, and supporting infrastructure.
• Integrate architecture review activities with existing cybersecurity workflows, including ATO intake, security assessment, vulnerability scanning, cloud compliance, change management, and authorization decision support.
• Review system designs, data flows, identity models, access controls, logging approaches, network...