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 plans


• Identify 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