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Job Description

Job Description

Cybersecurity AI Implementation for Accelerated Exposure Reduction

Time & Materials (One-Time Initiative) ~1,800 Hours over 12 Months

1. Purpose and Objective

The State of Wisconsin, Department of Administration (DOA), Division of Enterprise

Technology (DET), Bureau of Security (BOS) requires an expert senior technical leader

and engineer to serve as a strategic advisor to the CISO and drive the statewide

implementation of the Accelerated Exposure Reduction Plan.

This role balances high-level strategic advisory with hands on engineering, operating on

a "teach-by-doing" knowledge transfer model. The primary objective is to build long-

term internal capabilities while operationalizing and enforcing the State's newly updated

Flaw Remediation (SI-2) Standard. This initiative transitions the State from reactive,

manual vulnerability management to an AI-accelerated, continuous authorization, and

automated DevSecOps posture.

2. Scope

The consultant shall perform hands-on engineering, deliver strategic CISO advisory,

and provide direct mentoring across the following core operational pillars:

2.1 CISO Strategic Advisory and Engineering

• Act as a direct technical advisor to the CISO, translating federal mandates,

emerging AI threat models, and architectural gaps into actionable enterprise

security directives.

• Execute a hands-on knowledge transfer model, co-engineering data pipelines

and security automation alongside internal DET staff to institutionalize elite

technical skills.

• Deliver real time training and co-develop automation playbooks within the

security operations (SecOps) using live demonstration approach.

2.2 Flaw Remediation (SI-2) Standard Operationalization

• Tier Optimization & Enforcement: Architect automated tracking, logging, and

validation mechanisms to implement compliance with the State’s updated SI-2

timeframes:

o Tier 1 (Highest Urgency): Ensure all public-facing vulnerabilities, CISA

KEV listings, active exploits, and identity/privileged system flaws

implement approved mitigations or compensating controls within 24

hours, with full remediation closed inside 7 calendar days.

o Tier 2 (High-Risk/Internal): Configure alerting and metric reporting to

validate mitigation within 48 hours and full remediation within 15 calendar

days.

o Tier 3 (Moderate/Low): Establish repeatable monthly scheduling to

ensure remediation within 30 calendar days.

• Clean Deployment Architectures: Partner with agency development teams to

pivot away from manual, in-place patching. Author and implement automated

templates for clean deployments using virtualized system images, containers,

and cloud-native configurations.

• DevSecOps Integration: Embed secure builds, automated software testing,

code scanning, and dependency updates natively into agency deployment

pipelines.

2.3 AI Capability Deployment & Toolchain Integration

• Operationalize Gemini Government and Google Codemender or equivalent

directly inside active workflows, showing security analysts and application

developers how to leverage generative AI to automate log parsing, threat

hunting, and source-code remediation.

• Engineer automated data pipelines to feed the centralized enterprise platform

(incorporating telemetry from Tenable.io, Google Mandiant ASM, Microsoft Azure

Arc, Splunk, and Google SecOps) to maintain a single, authoritative pane of

glass.

• Ensure all AI-assisted capabilities comply strictly with State privacy, data

classification, and logging safeguards, preventing non-public vulnerability metrics

from leaking into unvetted environments.

2.4 Governance Safeguards & Escalation Automation

• Build automated low-code workflows to manage the SI-2 time-bound exception

lifecycle, ensuring every granted exception maps back to a named owner,

specific compensating controls, and an explicit financial tiedown capturing

technical debt.

• Configure automated alert thresholds and workflow routing for significant

business risks that exceed normal management tolerance, ensuring rapid

escalation in line with the SI-2 update.

3. Project Timeline

Project Description Target

Schedule

1: SI-2 Baseline &

Architecture

Alignment

Mapping of all automated data feeds (Tenable,

Mandiant, Azure Arc) into the single

authoritative platform, aligned to track Tier 1,

2, and 3 findings.

Day 30

2: Co-Engineered AI

Playbooks

Delivery of production-ready LLM and Frontier

Cyber model runbooks and prompt libraries,

co-developed with internal staff via hands-on

mentoring.

Day 45

3: Automated

Exception &

Escalation Engine

Implementation of automated workflow paths

for time-bound exceptions, financial tiedowns,

and high-risk executive escalation paths.

Day 60

4: DevSecOps

Clean Deployment

Framework

Standardization of approved repository

templates and CI/CD security gate controls to

enforce clean deployment preferences.

Day 75

5: Knowledge

Transfer &

Sustainment Hand-

off

Final technical transition briefing, configuration

documentation, and validation logs proving

internal staff autonomy in sustaining the SI-2

operational baseline.

Day 90–365

(Ongoing)

4. Minimum Qualifications and Core Competencies

The designated expert must demonstrate a unique blend of strategic advisory presence

and deep, practical engineering capability:

• Executive Advisory: Proven experience serving as a trusted technical advisor

to CISOs, CIOs, or senior executive leaders within public sector or heavily

federated enterprise environments.

• Teach-by-Doing Expertise: Documented success as a technical mentor, trainer,

or engineering lead focused on pair-engineering and technical upskilling of

infrastructure and security operations staff.

• Security Control Mastery (SI-2): Comprehensive expertise operationalizing

security controls, including tiering models, compensating control validation, and

time bound risk governance structures.

• Advanced Tooling Fluency: enterprise cyber stack Google Threat Intel or

VirusTotal, Google SecOps, Mandiant ASM, Tenable.io, Microsoft Azure Arc,

GitHub, GitHub Advanced Security, Ansible Tower, and Gemini/Anthropic AI

security frameworks.

• Cloud Architecture & DevSecOps Engineering

5. Performance Monitoring & Safeguards

• Knowledge Transfer Auditing: Progress will be measured not only by technical

deployment velocity but also by the documented proficiency gains of internal

DET staff who assume ownership of the deployed tools.

• Data Isolation Guardrails: The consultant is strictly forbidden from utilizing

public or unvetted commercial AI models for analyzing State code, logs, or asset

data. All engineering must occur exclusively within authorized, state-managed

enterprise security instances.

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Project details (project overview, who the contractor will work with, soft skills needed, etc.): The State of Wisconsin, Department of Administration (DOA), Division of Enterprise Technology (DET), Bureau of Security (BOS) requires an expert senior technical leader and engineer to serve as a strategic advisor to the CISO and drive the statewide implementation of the Accelerated Exposure Reduction Plan.

Top Required Skills & Years of Experience:

Must be able to demonstrate prior experience doing the following in a large/complex environment:

- Proven experience serving as a trusted technical advisor to CISOs, CIOs, or senior executive leaders within public sector or heavily federated enterprise environments.

- Documented success as a technical mentor, trainer, or engineering lead focused on pair-engineering and technical upskilling of infrastructure and security operations staff.

- Comprehensive expertise operationalizing security controls, including tiering models, compensating control validation, and time bound risk governance structures.

- Enterprise cyber stack Google Threat Intel or VirusTotal, Google SecOps, Mandiant ASM, Tenable.io, Microsoft Azure Arc, GitHub, GitHub Advanced Security, Ansible Tower, and Gemini/Anthropic AI security frameworks.

-Cloud Architecture & DevSecOps Engineering

Nice to have Skills:

- Federated/Government environment

-Tech Stack to include: Google, Microsoft, AWS, Splunk