Cyber Lead Auditor / Test Lead

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🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔎 Auditor

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Ardent

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Defense • Logistics

Ardent is a premier technology firm serving the public sector, focused on delivering mission-critical solutions. They specialize in data science and analytics, digital transformation, and location intelligence, helping organizations to make better decisions, modernize their systems, and decode spatial data. Ardent is committed to defending against man-made and natural threats, providing effective solutions such as cloud applications, cybersecurity, and spatial data science. They work closely with federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, to ensure national safety. Their solutions are tailored to thrive in complex environments, proven in case studies, and delivered with the speed and precision required by their clients' missions.

📋 Description

• Provide independent technical and assurance leadership for a cybersecurity assurance program for the state of Florida • Convert OCIG objectives into audit-defensible testing strategies and step-by-step procedures • Supervise evidence collection and analysis • Verify factual findings are supported and traceable to applicable criteria across a multi-agency environment • Lead ingestion and analysis of agency documentation, including risk assessments, remediation plans, prior findings, corrective actions, inventories, and strategic plans • Direct development of the Agency Risk Understanding Memorandum • Design Ground-Truth and Ad Hoc Testing Strategies and approve detailed testing procedures • Map procedures and results to NIST CSF criteria, Rule 60GG-2, F.A.C., and applicable approved criteria • Ensure testing remains within OCIG authorization, avoids duplication of operational testing, and complies with agency-specific Rules of Engagement • Review evidence for relevance, reliability, sufficiency, attribution, timestamps, chain of custody, and reproducibility • Validate reports and ensure advisory recommendations are distinctly labeled • Conduct independent QA reviews of technical deliverables and document sign-off • Lead technical briefings, workshops, job aids, and knowledge transfer • Support urgent analysis of logs, timelines, after-action reports, remediation evidence, and incident-specific control issues

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information assurance, audit, information systems, or related discipline • Active Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) • At least two additional active certifications from: GIAC GMON, GCIH, GCIA, GSEC, CEH, SSCP, or CompTIA Security+ • At least 10 years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, intrusion analysis, adversary simulation, technical assessment, or audit support • At least 5 years supporting or conducting audits, compliance reviews, independent assessments, or assurance work in government or similarly regulated environments • Ability to design defensible test procedures, evaluate control performance, distinguish fact from opinion, and communicate technical results to senior stakeholders • Working knowledge of professional auditing or assurance standards and evidence requirements • Willingness to undergo the government-issued background investigation process • Preferred: CISSP plus one monitoring/intrusion credential (GMON or GCIA) and one incident-handling credential (GCIH) • Preferred: Purple-team or adversary-emulation leadership using MITRE ATT&CK and threat-informed kill chains • Preferred: Government incident-command experience • Preferred: CISA, CIA, or other audit credential • Preferred: Experience with Active Directory, cloud platforms, APIs, web applications, databases, endpoints, SIEM/EDR, vulnerability scanners, and evidence repositories

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer and nondiscrimination protections • Opportunity to work on a cybersecurity assurance program for the state of Florida • Technical briefings, workshops, job aids, and knowledge transfer opportunities