IT Cyber Specialist

The role

The IT Cyber Specialist tracks, reviews, and helps remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations identified by the Wiz for Gov platform. This person manages the cloud vulnerability lifecycle across Azure, AWS, and GCP environments.

What you will do

• Monitor and review findings in Wiz for Gov across cloud accounts
• Validate and prioritize findings by severity and business context
• Open, assign, and track tickets for actionable findings
• Maintain an accurate vulnerability register
• Work with system owners to recommend remediation actions
• Follow up on open items and escalate overdue remediation
• Drive server patch compliance and removal of end-of-life software
• Respond to critical and high-severity findings
• Produce recurring metrics and dashboards for leadership
• Support evaluation of security posture against frameworks like CMMC and NIST

Required qualifications

• U.S. Citizen located on U.S. soil
• Vulnerability management and remediation tracking (Intermediate)
• Cyber security fundamentals, including risk-based prioritization (Intermediate)
• Cloud security concepts across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP (Intermediate)
• Cybersecurity frameworks: CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, CIS (Basic to Intermediate)
• Incident and ticket management, including escalation workflows (Intermediate)
• Agile methodology (Basic to Intermediate)
• Written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM/CNAPP) experience in Azure, AWS, and/or GCP
• Experience with Wiz or the Wiz for Gov platform
• Patch management and end-of-life software remediation experience
• Scripting or automation for reporting and ticketing workflows (e.g., Python, PowerShell, APIs)
• Security certification such as Security+, CySA+, CISSP, or a cloud security certification

Benefits

• Hands-on experience
• Certifications
• Industry training

Before you apply

• U.S. Citizen located on U.S. soil (mandatory)
• Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
• Candidates currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible

About the company

Accenture Federal Services is a technology company within global Accenture that helps the US federal government. Its 13,000+ people work across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.