About the role is seeking an Information Assurance (IA) Practice Lead and Senior Security Assessor. Your primary responsibility will be to conduct hands-on security control assessments on Tangent’s federal Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services (HACS) contract and support additional assessments as the contract grows. You will also help improve our IA services, develop technical proposals, and mentor military veterans and other professionals entering the field.
The role works with Tangent’s Operations Lead, program management, and proposal teams to plan practice development and mentoring around assessment schedules and client commitments.Federal security assessments

• Plan and conduct security control assessments using evidence reviews, interviews, and testing. Apply NIST SP 800-53 controls, the Risk Management Framework, and agency or FedRAMP requirements as applicable.
• Develop and review security assessment plans and reports, risk findings, and readiness or gap assessments. Explain findings, their impact, and recommended corrective actions to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Coordinate with client stakeholders and Tangent’s program team to resolve evidence gaps, meet assessment milestones, and deliver accurate, consistent work within authorized scope and hours.

Practice development and proposals

• Help define Tangent’s IA services and improve how we deliver them. Develop reusable templates, evidence request lists, and quality review checklists.
• Identify and test practical improvements in evidence collection, reporting, and automation. Share approaches that reduce rework or make findings easier for clients to act on.
• Partner with the proposal team to evaluate opportunities and write or review technical approaches, staffing plans, level-of-effort estimates, and transition plans for federal IA proposals and market research responses.

Mentoring and future program leadership

• Help military veterans and other emerging IA professionals build assessment skills through structured training, shadowing, supervised assignments, and feedback.
• Prepare to lead future IA contracts as opportunities are awarded. Depending on the assignment, responsibilities may include contract transition, staffing, schedules, deliverable quality, client communication, and performance reporting. Tangent will plan coverage for existing assessment commitments before assigning program management duties.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience independently conducting NIST SP 800-53 security control assessments in a federal or FedRAMP environment, including evidence review, interviews, and testing.
• Experience authoring both security assessment plans and security assessment reports and communicating findings and corrective actions.
• Experience writing or substantively reviewing technical approaches for federal cybersecurity or IA proposals.

Preferred qualificationsExperience mentoring assessors, improving assessment methods, or leading federal cybersecurity projects. CISSP, CISM, or a comparable cybersecurity credential is valued.
Military veterans are encouraged to apply.