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SANS Institute

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1989

🔒 Cybersecurity

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

Cybersecurity • Education • SaaS

SANS Institute is a leading organization specializing in cybersecurity training and education, providing a wide range of hands-on courses, certifications, and degree programs aimed at enhancing the skills and expertise of cybersecurity professionals. Founded in 1989, it offers expert-led training sessions globally, alongside resources like webinars and podcasts to support ongoing learning and development in the cybersecurity field. SANS Institute is dedicated to helping individuals and organizations mitigate cyber risks through rigorous training that aligns with industry standards and best practices.

📋 Description

• Validate and refine the existing CUI boundary to reduce remediation scope and confirm assessment readiness. • Coordinate activities across IT Security, IT Operations, IT Engineering, and business stakeholders to support implementation of required CMMC practices and controls. • Track compliance initiatives, dependencies, corrective action plans, and project deliverables through completion. • Coordinate policy, process, and documentation updates required to support compliance and assessment readiness. • Identify project risks, develop mitigation strategies, escalate issues as appropriate, and recommend corrective actions to maintain project objectives. • Deliver project closeout documentation, transition materials, and final reporting upon completion of the engagement. • Provide regular executive updates regarding project status, risks, budget, schedule, and overall assessment readiness. • Coordinate cloud infrastructure and system migration activities necessary to support CMMC compliance, working collaboratively with internal engineering and operations teams. • Facilitate cross-functional meetings, document action items, and maintain accountability for project milestones and agreed-upon deliverables. • Partner with the Internal Audit & Compliance team to coordinate assessments, evidence collection, documentation, and remediation activities. • Develop, maintain, and manage the integrated project plan, project schedule, milestones, dependencies, risk register, and executive status reporting. • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project objectives and deliverables are met. • Communicate progress, risks, and recommendations as needed. • Perform related project work and deliverables within the scope of the engagement, as mutually agreed upon.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated experience managing cybersecurity, compliance, governance, or risk-focused IT projects. • Experience coordinating technical teams across security, infrastructure, cloud, engineering, and operations functions. • Demonstrated understanding of AWS and enterprise system architectures, with the ability to engage credibly with technical stakeholders regarding system dependencies, data flows, and compliance boundary considerations. • Ability to quickly assess existing compliance artifacts and develop an actionable project plan with minimal onboarding. • Strong project management, organizational, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills in remote work environments. • Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills. • Ability to work independently and manage priorities in a remote environment. • Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality work within established timelines. • Working knowledge of CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, or comparable cybersecurity compliance frameworks, including the ability to engage with control requirements and System Security Plan (SSP)/implementation documentation. • Experience leading or coordinating a CMMC Level 2 compliance initiative through third-party assessment and certification. • Experience performing CUI boundary validation and remediation planning within an active compliance program. • Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure in regulated or compliance-driven environments. • PMP, CSM, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, or similar professional certifications.