IT Cyber Specialist

The posting, as Accenture Federal Services wrote it

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AFS IT is seeking an IT Cyber Specialist to track, review, and help remediate the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that the Wiz for Gov Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) / CNAPP platform identifies across AFS’s Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud environments. This role is the day-to-day owner of the cloud vulnerability lifecycle: from the first finding in Wiz for Gov through risk-based prioritization, ticketing, remediation follow-up, validation, and closure.
The IT Cyber Team’s purpose is to protect the AFS brand. The team applies security strategies and safeguards against current and emerging threats using all available tools, including Wiz for Gov. The specialist works hand in hand with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams and with Information Security to ensure security compliance and risk-mitigation best practices are applied across the enterprise, while balancing usability and business operations.
This role will help establish and sustain the recurring processes, metrics, and ticket workflows that keep cloud findings visible, owned, and resolved within agreed timelines.

The Work

Vulnerability Tracking and Triage (30%)

• Monitor and review new and recurring findings in Wiz for Gov (vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, exposed resources, toxic combinations, and compliance issues) across all onboarded cloud accounts.
• Validate findings, remove noise, and prioritize by severity, exploitability, internet exposure, asset criticality, and business context to determine remediation priority.
• Open, assign, and track tickets for each actionable finding, ensuring a named system owner and target date for every item.
• Maintain an accurate vulnerability register and track findings through to verified closure, including risk acceptances and approved exceptions.

Remediation Support (30%)

• Work directly with system owners and infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to explain findings, recommend remediation actions, and assess feasibility and impact of proposed fixes.
• Follow up on open items, escalate overdue or blocked remediation, and help remove impediments.
• Drive server patch compliance through the Patch Management Incident Ticket process

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