Cyber Specialist -Washington, DC

ATL Professional Services (APL) is seeking a Sr. Cyber Specialist for a current client. To ensure success, the candidate must display an excellent understanding of technology infrastructures using Firewalls, VPN, Data Loss Prevention, IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, and Security Audits. Top candidates will be comfortable working with a variety of technologies, security problems, and troubleshooting of the network. This position is 100% on site (at the client site in Washington D.C.). What You’ll Do: Specific Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, and upgrading security measures for the protection of the organization's data, systems, and networks. Troubleshooting security and network problems. Responding to all system and/or network security breaches. Ensuring that the organization's data and infrastructure are protected by enabling the appropriate security controls. Participating in the change management process. Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities. Daily administrative tasks, reporting, and communication with the relevant departments in the organization. Determine the impact of new technology or policy on the client's information security program Where requested, conduct meetings, including preparing agenda, documenting, and recording minutes Provide expert analysis and document preparation for various analytical efforts focused on processes and procedures Create and review various draft documents and provide timely feedback Develop and implement information security program strategic and tactical goals and objectives Develop and implement information security program outreach and communication plansIdentify and develop a Performance Management program that includes performance measures, tracking metrics, and trend analysis Generate regular and ad hoc dashboards, reports, and metrics Recommend, develop, and maintain monthly, quarterly, and annual FISMA reporting documents Attend FISMA and CISA Working Group Meetings Using the client's provided template or tool, maintain a tracking system of all information security related deliverables- regularly scheduled and ad hoc Assist with transforming the organization and governance structure to support the client's information security initiatives Assist with creating and/or transforming the processes for inquiries, alerts, events, life cycle reviews and security and risk assessments Prepare responses to federal ad hoc reporting requirements Update project management plans yearly as required Report on FISMA Inventory and provide POA&M reports monthly What You Bring: 7+ years of experience in Cyber Security enforcement, auditing, vulnerability assessment analysis, threat identification and remediation, Cyber Security policy recommendations, physical security, and patch management strategies. 2 years of work experience with incident detection, incident response, and forensics. Experience with SASE solutions, SIEM solutions, Office 365 Security, and Defender for Endpoint Security. Experience utilizing the following tools: CDM/Qualys, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Sonicwall, iboss, Microsoft Purview Experience planning and implementing Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) Experience utilizing and securing cloud technologies (Azure) Experience with Risk Management Framework and Supply Chain Risk Management. Ability to obtain a public trust clearance #J-18808-Ljbffr ATL Professional Services LLC