Cybersecurity Specialist

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🦀 Maryland, Virginia – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $98k - $163k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Guidehouse

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2018

💰 Grant on 2023-02

Consulting • Digital Services • Public Sector

Guidehouse is a global consultancy offering advisory, digital, and managed services across commercial and public sectors. It is purpose-built to support industries such as national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Guidehouse collaborates with leaders to navigate complexity and drives transformational changes that impact the future. Their expertise spans data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and more, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and innovation.

📋 Description

• Support secure operations, compliance, risk management, and continuous monitoring for a mission-critical federal grants platform. • Emphasize federal security requirements, ATO support, POA&M management, incident response, security documentation, and vulnerability coordination. • Contribute to secure operations through security documentation, continuous monitoring, vulnerability tracking, POA&M coordination, incident response support, ATO activities, and security oversight. • Support implementation, monitoring, and documentation of federal cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance requirements for Grants.gov applications and platform services. • Manage and support POA&M activities by tracking findings, coordinating remediation owners, documenting milestones, validating closure evidence, and communicating risk status to program and security leadership. • Coordinate vulnerability management activities, including scan review, issue triage, remediation planning, exception tracking, patch coordination, and verification of resolved findings. • Coordinate with development, operations, cloud, database, network, and application platform teams to ensure security considerations are incorporated into releases, configuration changes, deployments, maintenance activities, and enhancements. • Maintain and update security-related artifacts, including system security documentation, control implementation details, risk registers, incident reports, remediation plans, operating procedures, and compliance evidence. • Support transition-in and transition-out activities by helping validate security documentation, accounts, certificates, licenses, support systems, inventories, controls, and operational security responsibilities. • Prepare and communicate security status, risks, issues, remediation progress, incident impacts, control gaps, and compliance recommendations in formats appropriate for executive, federal, technical, and non-technical audiences.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree. Additional Four(4) years of exp needed in lieu of degree. • 5+ years of experience supporting cybersecurity, information assurance, compliance, risk management, or security operations for enterprise systems, federal IT programs, or mission-critical applications. • Demonstrated experience supporting ATO activities, security documentation, control evidence collection, assessment preparation, continuous monitoring, POA&M management, or remediation tracking. • Working knowledge of federal cybersecurity requirements and frameworks, including FISMA, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, privacy requirements, security assessment processes, and risk management practices. • Experience coordinating vulnerability management, patch remediation, security findings, exception requests, scan analysis, incident response, and compliance evidence across technical teams. • Ability to coordinate effectively with federal security stakeholders, ISSOs, system owners, developers, testers, operations teams, cloud teams, database administrators, helpdesk partners, IV&V teams, and other contractors. • Strong understanding of: Security control implementation, evidence collection, assessment readiness, and continuous monitoring POA&M tracking, vulnerability remediation, risk acceptance, exception management, and closure validation Incident response, incident notification, root cause analysis, security monitoring, and corrective action planning Secure SDLC, DevSecOps practices, release coordination, configuration management, and change impact analysis Security documentation, risk reporting, compliance dashboards, and stakeholder communications • Experience using security, compliance, and collaboration tools such as vulnerability scanners, ticketing systems, GRC platforms, Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, or similar platforms. • Excellent communication, analytical, documentation, coordination, and problem-solving skills with the ability to explain security risks and compliance needs to executive, federal, technical, and non-technical audiences. • Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays • Parental Leave • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Group Term Life and Travel Assistance • Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance • Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities • Employee Referral Program • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach • Care.com annual membership • Employee Assistance Program • Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)