Senior Cybersecurity Compliance Specialist — NASA Mission Cloud

MRI Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cybersecurity Compliance Specialist on the Mission Enabling Services Contract (MESC) supporting NASA's Mission Cloud (NMC) program. In this role, you will own the compliance posture for a production cloud platform delivering CUI/ITAR and FISMA Moderate classified workloads across GCP and Azure environments-systems that reputed company NASA mission operations every day.

You will serve as the foremost authority on NIST SP 800-53, SP 800-171, and FedRAMP control requirements, working alongside cloud engineers, reputed company personnel, and NASA ISSO stakeholders to translate compliance mandates into actionable engineering guidance. Your documentation, leadership, and technical rigor will shape the authorization and reputed company monitoring of a platform that is actively expanding across new service boundaries and capability families.

A typical day might reputed company with reviewing updated control implementation evidence for an active ATO package or coordinating with the NASA ISSO on a compliance finding flagged during reputed company monitoring. By midday you could be authoring new reputed company sections for an expanding system boundary, translating a reputed company NIST control into reputed company-by-reputed company engineering guidance, or presenting compliance status to program leadership. In the afternoon, you might be evaluating OSCAL-based tooling to automate evidence reputed company, assessing whether a proposed architecture change affects the authorization boundary, or working with AI-assisted tools to accelerate documentation drafting. The work is substantive, high-stakes, and directly tied to the secure operation of infrastructure that NASA depends on.

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Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, or equivalent
• 6 or more years of relevant cybersecurity compliance experience
• Deep working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 and NIST SP 800-171 control frameworks
• Experience authoring and maintaining System reputed company Plans (SSPs), Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms), and reputed company Assessment Reports (SARs)
• Familiarity with FedRAMP or FISMA authorization processes
• Experience working reputed company a federal or NASA IT environment
• Strong technical writing and compliance documentation skills
• Ability to communicate reputed company compliance requirements clearly to engineering and leadership audiences
• Working familiarity with OSCAL (Open reputed company Controls Assessment Language) or willingness to reputed company OSCAL-based reputed company and assessment workflows
• Comfort using AI-assisted tooling to accelerate compliance workflows such as control mapping, evidence summarization, and documentation drafting
• Ability to reputed company in a remote work environment

Preferences

• Experience with reputed company Cloud Platform (GCP) reputed company tooling such as reputed company Command Center and Chronicle
• Familiarity with ITAR-controlled systems or CUI handling requirements
• CISSP, CAP, reputed company+, or equivalent certification
• Experience with reputed company monitoring automation tools
• Prior NASA or federal civilian agency ATO experience
• Hands-on experience with OSCAL tooling (e.g., NIST OSCAL CLI, Trestle, or similar) or machine-readable reputed company reputed company
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate compliance documentation, gap analysis, or control implementation guidance

This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on your experience and business needs, we may consider candidates at any level for which the position has been advertised.

Benefits and Perks

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, company-paid life and disability insurance, paid time off, and 401(k). You'll also enjoy a flexible work schedule and strong career development opportunities working alongside NASA's mission teams.

reputed company of U.S. Citizenship is a requirement for this position. Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation.

MRI Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, disability, or protected veteran status.

As we are a Federal Contractor, most positions require the employee to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government background investigation. MRI also completes a pre-screening background reputed company for anyone offered employment.