Cybersecurity Consultant - CMMC (Remote U.S.)

Job Title: Cybersecurity Consultant – CMMC Location: Remote (U.S. based) Employment Type: Full-time Required Qualifications:

• Handson experience conducting CMMC and NIST 800171 gap assessments and readiness evaluations using repeatable, structured methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to advise customers on compliance scoping decisions, including enclavebased approaches, fullenvironment implementations, and shared responsibility considerations
• Experience coordinating across identity and access management, endpoint security, logging and monitoring, and security tooling workstreams
• Strong clientfacing communication skills with a proven ability to bridge technical compliance detail and executivelevel business context
• Ability to independently manage multistakeholder compliance engagements across advisory, planning, and implementation phases

Role Overview & Responsibilities:

• Lead CMMC readiness, advisory, and implementation engagements across a portfolio of Defense Industrial Base (DIB) clients
• Plan and execute CMMC and NIST 800171 readiness assessments and gap analyses, documenting findings and prioritized remediation paths
• Advise customers on compliance strategy and scoping including the operational tradeoffs of enclavebased versus fullscope approaches
• Coordinate implementation activities spanning identity management, endpoint hardening, boundary protection, and logging and monitoring
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams, customer stakeholders, and external C3PAO partners to ensure consistent, highquality engagement delivery
• Translate complex technical requirements into clear, actionable guidance for business and executive audiences
• Support customers through all preassessment phases, including readiness evaluation, control remediation, and POAM execution
• Manage engagement timelines, milestone tracking, and stakeholder communication across multiple concurrent projects
• Contribute to presales and solution positioning activities, including customer discovery and proposal support
• Deliver practical, operationally grounded guidance focused on implementing and sustaining security controls not just achieving paper compliance

Certifications:

• CCP or be willing/able to obtain within 2 months of hire
• Additional professional certifications such as CMMC RP/A, CISSP, or CISA are highly desirable.

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