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Conduct independent full-scope federal IT audits, internal control reviews, FISMA self-assessments, and IV&V of audit corrective actions. Evaluate control effectiveness, maintain internal control inventories, assess risk mitigation activities, analyze findings, apply data analytics and automated testing, and present recommendations to customer management. The role requires knowledge of federal audit frameworks, OMB A-123, NIST assessment guidance, COBIT, COSO, GAO FISCAM, and experience supporting OIG and GAO audits.

Leads IT business process analysis, improvement, and automation for a federal risk management and administration office. Designs and maintains SharePoint and Microsoft Power Platform solutions, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI dashboards. Supports risk, audit, policy, compliance, and records management activities; prepares status reports, meeting minutes, and written communications. Applies Agile and Waterfall methods, evaluates AI productivity tools, and coordinates cross-functional automation initiatives.

Conduct full-scope IT audits and control reviews for a federal customer; assess compliance with federal frameworks, coordinate OIG and GAO audit requests, manage stakeholder communications, track corrective actions, prepare closure packages, maintain audit documentation and dashboards, reconcile audit statistics, and support control testing and internal controls inventory updates.

Develop and govern federal IT policies, directives, SOPs, and guidance for a CIO organization. The role manages a 40-plus-document policy inventory, coordinates reviews and updates, identifies policy gaps, ensures alignment with federal statutes and NIST standards, translates technical and cyber risk into strategic recommendations, and briefs executives. The planner also manages policy lifecycles, stakeholder collaboration, document dependencies, and five-year review requirements.

Provides security engineering and compliance expertise for FedRAMP Cloud Service Provider authorization packages. Reviews cloud architectures, security controls, system security plans, assessment reports, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests against NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, RMF, and agency requirements. Leads architecture interviews, identifies technical and documentation gaps, advises government program leaders and CISOs on risk posture, supports continuous monitoring, and guides vendors through remediation and authorization activities.

Serves as a Tier 1 Network Operations Center responder for a federal enterprise network spanning approximately 50 sites. Responsibilities include ticket triage and ownership in ServiceNow, connectivity diagnostics, switch port resets, alarm monitoring, SLA-based escalation, stakeholder updates, service request processing, documentation, topology and asset inventory maintenance, and support for Cisco, firewall, and enterprise network infrastructure. The role also contributes to monitoring configuration, reporting, and knowledge-base development.

Develops competitive federal proposal cost volumes, pricing models, rate structures, BOEs, and price-to-win strategies. Ensures compliance with FAR, DFARS, CAS, TINA, and solicitation requirements across major contract types. Manages subcontractor and teaming partner pricing intake, conducts cost realism and price analysis, supports audits and negotiations, and coordinates with cross-functional teams under tight proposal deadlines. Improves pricing tools and methodologies while supporting contract administration, forecasting, and financial analysis.

Monitor and investigate security events in a 24x7x365 cybersecurity operations center. Perform Tier 2 incident triage, incident response analysis, threat hunting, log and forensic analysis, remediation coordination, and investigation tracking through closure. Serve as an incident management coordinator, assign tasks, communicate with stakeholders and federal leadership, produce required reports, and guide analysts during active incidents. Maintain compliance with federal reporting procedures and develop defensive cybersecurity practices.

Designs, implements, and maintains Splunk data ingestion pipelines, integrations, alerts, infrastructure, and security controls across on-premises and cloud environments. Manages system performance, upgrades, access controls, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, documentation, and cybersecurity tool integrations. Collaborates with SOC teams to optimize processes, tune tools, support incident response, and ensure data integrity, compliance, and reliable high-volume data processing.

Provides Tier III SOC support through advanced SIEM alert triage, forensic analysis, incident escalation, threat hunting, detection engineering, and malware investigation. Leads shift handovers, monitors security tool health, updates playbooks and procedures, supports Red and Purple Team exercises, prepares incident reports, mentors junior analysts, and collaborates with government and partner SOCs. Requires six or more years of SOC experience, cybersecurity certifications, AWS security telemetry expertise, and a Public Trust clearance.