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DecisionPoint

Defense IT services and mission support

Vulnerability Management / ACAS Analyst

Security Governance, Risk & ComplianceConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • An active Secret clearance or higher is required.
  • A bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field is required.
  • At least 7 years of relevant cybersecurity, information assurance, vulnerability-management, or information-security experience is required.
  • A current CompTIA Security+ certification is required.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, communication, and follow-through skills are required.
  • Ability to manage multiple findings, owners, dependencies, and deadlines in a structured compliance environment is required.

Responsibilities

  • Review ACAS vulnerability findings provided by Government personnel.
  • Analyze findings to identify affected assets, systems, applications, devices, and responsible support teams.
  • Reconcile affected assets against configuration-management, inventory, and asset-management records.
  • Research discrepancies between ACAS results and authoritative asset inventories.
  • Support prioritization of vulnerabilities based on severity, asset criticality, mission impact, remediation deadlines, and Government direction.
  • Coordinate corrective actions with system administrators, infrastructure teams, application teams, engineers, and other remediation owners.
  • Create, update, and monitor vulnerability-remediation tickets in the designated workflow system.
  • Track assigned owners, corrective actions, technical dependencies, target completion dates, and current remediation status.
  • Follow up with responsible personnel to obtain status updates and identify issues that could delay remediation.
  • Collect technical documentation, screenshots, configuration results, ticket records, and other evidence supporting remediation completion.
  • Review supporting evidence for completeness before requesting validation or rescanning.
  • Coordinate Government rescan requests for vulnerabilities reported as remediated.
  • Review Government-provided rescan results to verify that corrective actions successfully resolved identified vulnerabilities.
  • Document validated closures and retain supporting evidence in the designated Government repository.
  • Track compliance with applicable Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts and Information Assurance Vulnerability Management requirements.
  • Create and update POA&M entries for vulnerabilities requiring formal corrective-action tracking.
  • Maintain accurate vulnerability status information for recurring reports, dashboards, compliance reviews, and cybersecurity inspections.
  • Identify overdue, high-risk, recurring, or unresolved findings and escalate them to the Senior Vulnerability Management / ACAS Response Analyst or cybersecurity leadership.
  • Track remediation dependencies involving patch availability, configuration changes, application testing, maintenance windows, or operational constraints.
  • Assist with documenting false positives, mitigating controls, operational dependencies, and Government-approved risk decisions.
  • Support review of Endpoint Security Solutions reports and tracking of applicable endpoint-security findings.
  • Develop vulnerability aging reports, remediation status summaries, compliance metrics, and supporting briefing materials.
  • Help identify recurring vulnerabilities, process gaps, inaccurate asset records, and opportunities to improve remediation workflows.
  • Support maintenance of vulnerability-management procedures, standard operating procedures, tracking tools, and reporting templates.

Desired Qualifications

  • CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) certification.
  • Experience reviewing ACAS or Tenable vulnerability-scan results in a Department of Defense environment.
  • Experience reconciling vulnerability findings against hardware, software, configuration-management, or asset-inventory records.
  • Experience coordinating vulnerability remediation with system administrators, infrastructure teams, and application support teams.
  • Knowledge of Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts and Information Assurance Vulnerability Management requirements.
  • Experience creating and maintaining cybersecurity POA&Ms.
  • Experience using ServiceNow or another ticketing and workflow-management platform to track remediation activities.
  • Familiarity with Endpoint Security Solutions, STIG Viewer, SCAP tools, eMASS, or comparable Department of Defense cybersecurity technologies.
  • Knowledge of the Department of Defense Risk Management Framework, NIST SP 800-53 controls, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, and applicable Department of Defense cybersecurity directives.
  • Experience collecting, reviewing, and maintaining technical evidence supporting vulnerability remediation and closure.
  • Experience coordinating rescans and reviewing results to verify successful remediation.
  • Experience preparing vulnerability reports, remediation metrics, aging summaries, dashboards, or inspection-support materials.
  • Familiarity with current Department of Defense 8140 cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements.

About the Company

DecisionPoint

Defense IT services and mission support

DecisionPoint delivers IT support services to U.S. defense and federal agencies, helping them improve mission delivery. The company uses four Centers of Excellence to design and implement solutions that blend skilled professionals, mature processes, and smart technologies to tackle government challenges. It differentiates itself through its Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) status and its center-based approach to delivering large-scale IT programs across defense and federal sectors. Its goal is to help government agencies transform and enhance performance to meet critical mission requirements.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Gaithersburg, MD
Founded
2011

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