Information System Security Officer (ISSO)

Description of Task to be Performed:

AnaVation is seeking an Information System Security Officer (ISSO) to join our growing Huntsville, Alabama work program. The selected candidate provides advanced security oversight, compliance monitoring, and protection of mission-critical systems within a major federal modernization program. The ISSO ensures all systems, applications, data flows, and development environments adhere to federal security policies, controls, accreditation requirements, and continuous monitoring standards. This role partners with engineering, cloud, DevSecOps, QA, and operations teams toensure security is embedded across all phases of delivery.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Implement and maintain federal security policies, controls, standards, and required documentation, including SSPs, POA&Ms, and control evidence.
• Support continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, remediation tracking, audits, assessments, and accreditation activities.
• Ensure applications, systems, and cloud environments remain compliant with applicable federal security frameworks.
• Provide guidance on secure architecture, system hardening, access controls, authentication, data handling, and security requirements.
• Identify security risks, findings, and incidents, and coordinate mitigation, remediation, and corrective actions across technical teams.
• Partner with engineering, cloud, DevSecOps, QA, data, and product teams throughout planning, development, testing, and release activities.
• Maintain security documentation, metrics, dashboards, vulnerability reports, and risk summaries.
• Communicate security posture, risks, incidents, and mitigation strategies to program leadership and stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications: