CAREERS — JOIN THE MISSION
Your cybersecurity career path starts here
We’re building a talent pipeline to navigate cybersecurity and defend the most critical systems — for the government and defense missions that can’t afford to go dark.
Who We're Looking For
Let's build an award-winning future together
SEMAIS is looking for top-notch IT professionals who want to advance cybersecurity. In return, we offer a diverse workforce and a culture built for people to grow their skillsets and take on harder problems.
We’ve got an ambitious road ahead. Join our team and help shape the next stage of cybersecurity across federal, defense, and maritime missions.
Credentials
The credentials that matter here
On federal contracts, certifications are how a mission verifies that the people doing the work can actually do it. At SEMAIS, credentials map directly to the roles we staff and to DoD 8140/8570 baselines — they’re the signal that an engineer can carry an RMF package to ATO, stand up Zero Trust controls, or run an exposure-management program without on-the-job ramp time.
We hire people who hold these, and we invest in helping our team earn the next one. Below are the six we look for most. Hold a few — or working toward them? We want to talk.
- CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- CISM
Certified Information Security Manager
- CISA
Certified Information Systems Auditor
- CASP+
CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner
- CEH
Certified Ethical Hacker
- CRISC
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
Aligned to DoD 8140 and the NICE Framework
DoD Directive 8140 (Cyberspace Workforce Management, with DoD Manual 8140.03) is how the Department of Defense identifies, qualifies, and tracks its cyber workforce. It replaced the old 8570 single-certification checkbox with a work-role qualification model: you qualify for a specific role through a blend of education, training, certifications, and demonstrated experience — not one exam.
Those work roles come from the NICE Framework (NIST SP 800-181), the national standard that describes cyber work as tasks and the knowledge and skills behind them. Because SEMAIS maps every role we staff to its 8140 work role and NICE category, the work you do here lines up with the exact language our government customers use to write requirements and measure readiness — and we’ll show you which credentials and experience qualify you, then help you close any gap.
Labor Categories (LCAT)
Roles we hire for
The core labor categories across our cybersecurity engagements. Open requisitions for each are posted and managed in our applicant portal.
Security Analyst
Assesses vulnerabilities across software, hardware, and networks, investigates tools and countermeasures, recommends best practices, and tests compliance with security policies and procedures.
Security Engineer
Performs security monitoring, log and forensic analysis to detect incidents, and investigates new technologies and processes to enhance security capabilities.
Security Architect
Designs and implements secure systems, networks, and applications. Assesses risk, defines requirements, and builds comprehensive solutions aligned to organizational goals.
Cyber Exposure Management
Continuously discovers assets and correlates scanner, asset, and threat data into one prioritized remediation surface — shrinking the window between exposure and fix across the enterprise attack surface.
AI Governance
Establishes governance, risk, and oversight for AI systems — model inventory, acceptable-use and risk policy, monitoring, and controls that let agencies adopt and automate with AI without inheriting unmanaged risk.