Cybersecurity Assessor – State & Local Government

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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AlphaHire

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Construction • Consulting • Logistics

Founded in 2018, AlphaHire provides workforce intelligence for capital-intensive markets. Its Workforce Intelligence Platform helps executives evaluate execution risk before committing to projects, bids, expansion, acquisitions, investments, and growth strategies.

📋 Description

• Lead cybersecurity assessments covering governance, controls, systems, applications, and operational practices • Conduct risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, findings analysis, and remediation prioritization • Develop client-ready assessment reports, risk registers, executive briefings, and improvement roadmaps • Support incident-response planning, tabletop exercises, investigations, and post-incident improvement activities • Map findings and recommendations to practical public-sector security frameworks and agency priorities • Coordinate interviews and evidence reviews with agency technology, security, privacy, and business stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on cybersecurity assessment and security-risk evaluation experience • Experience conducting vulnerability assessments and translating findings into prioritized remediation plans • Incident-response support experience, including planning, exercises, investigation support, or post-incident reviews • State, local, education, utility, or other public-sector cybersecurity experience • Comfortable as a 1099 / project-based collaborator • CISSP, CISM, CRISC, GIAC, Security+, or comparable credential (nice to have) • Experience with NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-61, CIS Controls, CJIS, or comparable frameworks (nice to have) • Experience assessing cloud, identity, endpoint, network, or third-party security controls (nice to have) • Public-agency continuity, cyber-resilience, or tabletop-exercise experience (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first engagements • Occasional client travel • Project-based collaborator opportunities • Permission requested before including a candidate's name or resume in a proposal