The General Services Administration’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has officially announced its new FedRAMP Cybersecurity Service (FRCS), which is looking to hire 15 employees for two-year terms of service.
The positions will be official government jobs – General Schedule (GS)-13 through GS-15 – and go through a standardized government hiring process. FedRAMP expects to open applications for the positions before the end of April.
FedRAMP Director Pete Waterman first teased the FRCS in January, but he provided more details on the initiative during a FedRAMP community working group meeting on Wednesday.
“We’re looking for folks explicitly that have worked on a cloud service as a security engineer or site reliability engineer with real, deep experience configuring [and] managing cloud services, or people that have worked as an independent assessor that has assessed cloud services against common security frameworks, including the FedRAMP process,” Waterman said.
Under the FRCS, cohort participants will rotate between learning, performing FedRAMP certifications, supporting the FedRAMP experience, improving policy and guidance, helping agencies adopt cloud services, and training the next FRCS group of employees.
The first year, participants will spend time working with the FedRAMP team and gaining a deep understanding of the program.
In the second year, participants will receive a temporary assignment to another federal agency’s security team. There, they will help the agency better adopt cloud services while coordinating with their “home team” back at FedRAMP.
“After that, you come back, and if you don’t want to work for the government anymore because you’re burnt, you get to go back to private sector and be one of the very few number of people that has legitimately deep expertise into what the government is actually doing in the space, what the expectations are,” Waterman explained.
“And you’ll have looked at some of the best technology companies’ security programs … it’s a win-win,” he added.
According to FedRAMP’s website, FedRAMP will hire the 2026 cohort of the FRCS in waves, beginning with the most senior positions.
Those who are interested in learning more before the applications open can do so at fedramp.gov/join.