GAMA-1 Technologies is seeking a Senior ATO Subject Matter Expert to support federal cybersecurity authorization and compliance initiatives across mission-critical systems and cloud environments. In this role, you will lead Security Assessment & Authorization (SA&A) efforts, support Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, and help ensure systems meet federal security and compliance standards.
This position is ideal for a cybersecurity professional who thrives in highly regulated environments and has deep expertise working with NIST frameworks, federal compliance requirements, and security authorization processes. You will collaborate closely with cybersecurity teams, engineers, system owners, and government stakeholders to support secure and compliant enterprise operations.
What You Will Do in This Role- Lead and support federal A&A / ATO activities for enterprise and cloud-based systems
- Develop, review, and maintain security documentation including SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, and related authorization artifacts
- Assess security controls and support compliance initiatives aligned with NIST standards
- Work with technical teams to identify and remediate security gaps and vulnerabilities
- Support continuous monitoring activities and ongoing compliance requirements
- Collaborate with government stakeholders and system owners throughout authorization lifecycles
- Interpret federal cybersecurity regulations and ensure alignment across systems and processes
- Support risk management and security assessment activities across classified and unclassified systems
- 7+ years of experience supporting security assessments, SA&A packages, or ATO activities for federal systems
- Strong working knowledge of NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-37 frameworks
- Experience supporting systems through successful ATO authorization processes
- Experience developing and maintaining federal security documentation
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently within regulated and compliance-driven environments
- Experience supporting classified or national security systems
- Familiarity with JCAM systems
- Federal civilian or DoD experience
Must possess at least one of the following:
- CISSP
- CAP
- CISA
- CRISC
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience supporting security assessments, SA&A packages, or ATO activities for federal systems
- Strong working knowledge of NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-37 frameworks
- Experience supporting systems through successful ATO authorization processes
- Experience developing and maintaining federal security documentation
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently within regulated and compliance-driven environments
- Experience supporting classified or national security systems
- Familiarity with JCAM systems
- Federal civilian or DoD experience
What We Do
GAMA-1 is a highly-technical Certified Small Disadvantaged Business with a mature service delivery model. We combine industry and government standards with established GAMA-1 methodologies to develop, engineer, secure, implement, and maintain IT solutions and services. We refine our methods through continuous process improvement and hold International Organization of Standards (ISO) 9001 (Quality), ISO 20000 (ITSM), and ISO 27001 (Security) certifications. We train our staff on IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v4 and apply Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Services Level 3 processes. GAMA-1 is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for two consecutive years. This prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at GAMA-1 Technologies. This year, 97% of employees said it’s a great workplace compared to 57% of typical U.S.-based company employees.
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