Fortress FastLane Associate

Compensation: $70,000 - $75,000per year, depending on experience and qualifications. Employment Type: Full-Time Fortress FastLane Associate Location: Remote, Orlando FL Compensation: $70,000 - $75,000per year, depending on experience and qualifications. Employment Type: Full-Time What you can expect as the Fortress FastLane Associate at Fortress... The Fortress FastLane Associate is a rotational early-career role designed to develop the next generation of cybersecurity and supply chain risk management professionals. Associates rotate through four strategic business areas on a quarterly basis, gaining hands-on exposure to vendor control assessments, AI-powered monitoring, data integrity QA, and program management. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute directly to Fortress's core service delivery while building a broad, cross-functional skillset across the company's highest-impact teams. Upon successful completion of the program through May 2027, associates transition into a full-time role of their choosing — making this an exceptional launchpad for a long-term career in cybersecurity. Responsibilities Include: Rotate through four business areas, each on a quarterly basis, meeting the specific deliverables and quality standards of each Rotation Lead's team. Consistently deliver on assigned workload, commitments, deadlines, and objectives while following established service level agreements in scope and leveraging appropriate tools, methods, frameworks, and professional standards. Curate and organize company-specific information from public, private, and proprietary sources through data collection, analysis, evaluation, and risk-scoring. Collaborate with internal partners and third parties to enhance, mitigate, and resolve third-party risks. Represent Fortress as a key point of contact to clients and their third parties as rotation assignments require. Support Validated Controls Assessment (VCA), AI Monitoring, data integrity QA, and program management activities depending on current rotation. Communicate effectively and professionally within each rotation team and with cross-functional partners. Track assigned work efficiently while meeting given deadlines across changing rotation assignments. Other duties as assigned. Minimum Qualifications: Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools, teams, and workflows, and to adapt professionally to a new business area every quarter. Experience in, or aptitude for, a customer/client-facing environment. Solid understanding of risk management concepts, particularly around information security, IT general controls, and basic audit terminology and concepts. Comfort learning and using AI-powered tools and platforms (e.g., generative AI assistants, AI-based monitoring or security tools) to support research, analysis, and reporting tasks. Demonstrated professional communication and client relationship skills. Attention to detail, sound judgement, logical thinking, and proven ability to follow established scripts/consistency models, drive tasks to completion, meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment, and adapt to changing business needs with periodic supervision. Strong computer skills, including MS Office and Google products (e.g., Word, Excel, Gmail) and other business software. Ambition, drive, sharp vision, and a great attitude. Preferred Skills: Proven working experience or strong academic/internship exposure to cybersecurity control reviews, operational risk management, information security, security research, or third-party/vendor risk management. Education: Bachelors Degree or equivalent professional work experience required. Employee Benefits: Competitive pay structure Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families Company paid life, short- and long-term disability insurance Employee Assistance Program 401(k) match Flexible Paid Time Off We provide each employee with professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up-skilling, and certifications Tuition and certification reimbursementEmployee Referral Programs Company Sponsored Events Fortress is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Fortress Information Security takes part in the E-Verify process for all new hires. For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will have to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis #J-18808-Ljbffr Fortress