Zero Trust Compliance Officer; Engineer Info Assurance

Zero Trust Compliance Officer (Engineer Info Assurance
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Location: Fairfax, VA, Virginia, United States

Requisition Number: 27378

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $ - $

Security Clearance: Top Secret

Level of

Experience:

Senior

This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5

ISR systems.

HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace and anticipate emerging threats. Our capabilities in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, software and hardware development uniquely enable us to support sensitive missions for the U.S. military and federal agency partners.

HII - Mission Technologies is currently seeking a Senior Zero Trust Compliance Officer to work out of Fairfax, VA in support of the DoD/DoW Advana War Data Platform designed to aggregate operational, intelligence, logistics, and sensor data from multiple domains, enable Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) by providing a common data fabric, and support AI/ML applications for predictive analytics, targeting, and mission planning.

This position is contingent on contract award.

• Designs, documents, and validates Zero Trust compliance across Department of Defense mission systems operating on unclassified and classified networks.
• Translates Zero Trust technical implementations into defensible authorization artifacts aligned with DoDI guidance, NIST control families, and the DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture.
• Evaluates identity-centric access controls, network micro-segmentation, continuous authentication mechanisms, and encrypted traffic protections for compliance sufficiency and audit readiness.
• Maintains System Security Plans, Security Assessment Reports, and Plans of Action and Milestones reflecting Zero Trust capabilities using eMASS, Xacta, and controlled SharePoint repositories.
• Conducts Zero Trust maturity assessments, traces capability alignment to control objectives, and documents compliance posture for review by Authorizing Officials, Senior Information Security Officers, and component cybersecurity leadership.
• Coordinates with cybersecurity engineers, network teams, and system owners to reconcile technical configurations with authorization requirements.
• Reviews vulnerability findings, control assessment results, and continuous monitoring outputs to validate Zero Trust control effectiveness.
• Produces compliance dashboards, executive summaries, and evidence packages supporting authorization decisions and mission risk awareness.
• Supports inspections, penetration testing reviews, and governance boards through structured documentation and authoritative briefings.
• Advances program values of mission assurance, audit transparency, cyber resilience, and operational trust by delivering consistent compliance alignment between Zero Trust engineering and security authorization outcomes.

• 10 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.
• IAM I (CompTIA Security+ CE, ISC² CAP, ISC² SSCP, or GIAC GSLC) certified.
• Must have an active Top Secret security clearance.
• US Citizen.

• Familiarity with Advana architecture, Palantir Foundry, or similar data integration platforms.
• Experience with data governance frameworks and metadata management.
• Agile/SAFe delivery experience in secure environments.

May require working in an office, industrial, shipboard, or laboratory environment. Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances.

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