Cybersecurity Specialist

Guidehouse

Security Specialist managing cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management for Grants.gov operations. Collaborating with federal security teams and ensuring compliance with federal regulations and standards.

Posted 7/17/2026full-timeRemote • Maryland, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $98,000 - $163,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in federal cybersecurity compliance, risk management, and incident response, with a strong focus on ATO activities and POA&M management. Proficient in coordinating vulnerability management and security documentation across technical teams while effectively communicating security risks to diverse audiences.

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Federal Cybersecurity CompliancePOA&M ManagementVulnerability ManagementIncident ResponseSecurity Documentation

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Hard Skills

CybersecurityRisk ManagementComplianceSecurity OperationsVulnerability CoordinationSecurity Control ImplementationContinuous MonitoringAssessment PreparationRemediation TrackingSecurity Findings Analysis

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationAnalytical SkillsDocumentation SkillsCoordination SkillsProblem-Solving Skills

Tools & Technologies

Vulnerability ScannersTicketing SystemsGRC PlatformsJiraAzure DevOpsConfluenceSharePointMicrosoft Teams

Certifications & Qualifications

Federal or DoD Public Trust

Industry Keywords

FISMANIST 800-53FedRAMPSecurity Assessment ProcessesSecure SDLCDevSecOps Practices

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudCyber SecuritySDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support secure operations, compliance, risk management, and continuous monitoring for a mission-critical federal grants platform.
Emphasize federal security requirements, ATO support, POA&M management, incident response, security documentation, and vulnerability coordination.
Contribute to secure operations through security documentation, continuous monitoring, vulnerability tracking, POA&M coordination, incident response support, ATO activities, and security oversight.
Support implementation, monitoring, and documentation of federal cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance requirements for Grants.gov applications and platform services.
Manage and support POA&M activities by tracking findings, coordinating remediation owners, documenting milestones, validating closure evidence, and communicating risk status to program and security leadership.
Coordinate vulnerability management activities, including scan review, issue triage, remediation planning, exception tracking, patch coordination, and verification of resolved findings.
Coordinate with development, operations, cloud, database, network, and application platform teams to ensure security considerations are incorporated into releases, configuration changes, deployments, maintenance activities, and enhancements.
Maintain and update security-related artifacts, including system security documentation, control implementation details, risk registers, incident reports, remediation plans, operating procedures, and compliance evidence.
Support transition-in and transition-out activities by helping validate security documentation, accounts, certificates, licenses, support systems, inventories, controls, and operational security responsibilities.
Prepare and communicate security status, risks, issues, remediation progress, incident impacts, control gaps, and compliance recommendations in formats appropriate for executive, federal, technical, and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree. Additional Four(4) years of exp needed in lieu of degree.
5+ years of experience supporting cybersecurity, information assurance, compliance, risk management, or security operations for enterprise systems, federal IT programs, or mission-critical applications.
Demonstrated experience supporting ATO activities, security documentation, control evidence collection, assessment preparation, continuous monitoring, POA&M management, or remediation tracking.
Working knowledge of federal cybersecurity requirements and frameworks, including FISMA, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, privacy requirements, security assessment processes, and risk management practices.
Experience coordinating vulnerability management, patch remediation, security findings, exception requests, scan analysis, incident response, and compliance evidence across technical teams.
Ability to coordinate effectively with federal security stakeholders, ISSOs, system owners, developers, testers, operations teams, cloud teams, database administrators, helpdesk partners, IV&V teams, and other contractors.
Strong understanding of: Security control implementation, evidence collection, assessment readiness, and continuous monitoring POA&M tracking, vulnerability remediation, risk acceptance, exception management, and closure validation Incident response, incident notification, root cause analysis, security monitoring, and corrective action planning Secure SDLC, DevSecOps practices, release coordination, configuration management, and change impact analysis Security documentation, risk reporting, compliance dashboards, and stakeholder communications
Experience using security, compliance, and collaboration tools such as vulnerability scanners, ticketing systems, GRC platforms, Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, or similar platforms.
Excellent communication, analytical, documentation, coordination, and problem-solving skills with the ability to explain security risks and compliance needs to executive, federal, technical, and non-technical audiences.
Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Parental Leave
401(k) Retirement Plan
Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Care.com annual membership
Employee Assistance Program
Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)