Senior Cyber Security Analyst

The role

This person will support cybersecurity assessments, risk remediation, and security program transformation for clients. They will work on cyber and identity workstreams within complex threat and regulatory environments.

What you will do

• Support cybersecurity assessments, including control gap analysis, evidence gathering, and remediation tracking.
• Assist in designing security operations processes, including incident response playbooks and escalation procedures.
• Assess Zero Trust and IAM readiness and support development of implementation roadmaps.
• Analyze dependencies between security remediation and broader technology or cloud migration initiatives.
• Support ICAM modernization, including onboarding backlog analysis and process streamlining.
• Support readouts of in-flight cyber and identity programs.
• Build and support continuous control-monitoring programs.
• Support authorization maintenance, including POA&M lifecycle management.
• Contribute findings and analysis into the broader engagement scope and deliverables.
• Support practice development through internal knowledge sharing and content creation.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in cybersecurity for complex, large enterprises
• Demonstrated experience supporting security assessments, incident response engagements, or compliance remediation efforts
• Bachelor's degree
• Active Secret Clearance
• U.S. Citizenship and Residency required
• Comfortable with travel up to 60%

Nice to have

• consulting or advisory delivery experience
• Government or defense experience
• Regulated industry experience in financial services or healthcare
• Security+ (meets the DoD 8140 baseline), CySA+, GSEC, or equivalent certifications
• CISSP, CISM, CAP, CISA, or CCSP
• TS/SCI eligibility
• direct experience with DoD frameworks such as RMF, DISA STIGs, and the DoDI 8500 series

Before you apply

• Active Secret Clearance required
• U.S. Citizenship and Residency required

About the company

Strategic Growth Partners provides both operations and strategic support to commercial organizations. Their client is a leading global professional services firm dedicated to helping organizations tackle complex business issues and deliver sustainable change.