Lead Cybersecurity Risk & Exposure Subject Matter Expert IV

Title: Lead Cybersecurity Risk & Exposure Subject Matter Expert IV


Location: Alexandria, VA 


Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Job Details:

• Serve as the senior SME for operational cyber risk, vulnerability/exposure analysis, and continuous monitoring supporting a DoD cyber defense mission


• Establish methodologies for correlating vulnerability, asset, configuration, network reachability, system criticality, security-control, threat, and incident data to identify and prioritize the exposures most likely to create operational or mission risk


• Lead complex exposure and impact assessments, including development of plausible exploitation scenarios, attack paths, affected-system analysis, compensating-control considerations, and risk-informed courses of action


• Provide expert vulnerability, asset, architecture, and security-control context to SOC leadership, Cybersecurity Operations Analysts, Threat Analysts, incident responders, and engineering teams during significant investigations and proactive defensive activity


• Lead analysis of ACAS/Tenable results, runZero asset information, STIG/configuration findings, system documentation, and other approved data to identify systemic weaknesses, exploitable conditions, and remediation priorities


• Own the SOC-side process for coordinating material cyber findings with affected system ISSOs/ISSMs, system owners, administrators, engineers, and authorization stakeholders; ensure operational findings are translated into appropriate mitigation, continuous-monitoring, POA&M, or RMF actions without duplicating system ISSO responsibilities


• Establish and maintain checklists, TTPs, guides, procedures, quality standards, and reporting methods for exposure analysis, risk prioritization, remediation validation, and SOC-to-system-security coordination


• Lead review of remediation evidence, recurring vulnerabilities, exposure trends, control weaknesses, and SOC-derived findings to identify systemic risk and recommend enterprise or site-level corrective actions


• Develop briefings, executive summaries, risk assessments, metrics, dashboards, and technical products that communicate operational exposure, remediation progress, control effectiveness, and mission impact to technical and leadership audiences


• Advise SOC leadership on vulnerability/exposure trends, high-risk assets, recurring security weaknesses, remediation priorities, and opportunities to improve the integration of vulnerability management, threat information, and cyber defense operations


• Mentor senior and developing analysts and provide technical quality review of exposure assessments, risk conclusions, remediation recommendations, and stakeholder coordination products


• Experience integrating vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, RMF/ISSO processes, and SOC or incident-response operations in a DoD/IC or similarly complex enterprise environment is highly desired

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in a technical discipline applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree


• Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience in addition to education level


• Demonstrated expert knowledge of vulnerability/exposure management, threat-informed risk analysis, DoD continuous monitoring, RMF/security controls, network/system security, and technical risk assessment


• Experience with ACAS/Tenable, runZero or comparable exposure/asset-discovery tools, DoD STIG/STIG Viewer, SCAP, POA&M processes, and integration of SOC/incident-response findings with ISSO/ISSM or RMF functions is highly desired


• Demonstrated experience establishing exposure-analysis methodology, leading complex risk assessments, prioritizing remediation, and translating operational cyber findings into continuous-monitoring or RMF actions is strongly desired


• Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II or IAM II certification


• Experience working in a DoD or IC environment


• Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled