Cybersecurity Specialist

Job Family: IT Cyber Security Travel Required: Up to 10% Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust What You Will Do: The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented cybersecurity professional who can support secure operations, compliance, risk management, and continuous monitoring for a mission-critical federal grants platform. This role emphasizes federal security requirements, ATO support, POA&M management, incident response, security documentation, vulnerability coordination, and collaboration across technical, operational, and federal stakeholder teams. As a Security Specialist, you will support cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and risk management activities for Grants.gov application operations, application platform services, approved enhancements, transition activities, disaster recovery, and ongoing modernization coordination. You will work closely with federal security stakeholders, system owners, ISSOs, architects, developers, operations staff, cloud teams, database administrators, testers, IV&V partners, helpdesk partners, and program leadership to help ensure Grants.gov complies with applicable federal and agency IT security, privacy, and compliance regulations, policies, standards, and requirements. You will contribute to secure operations through security documentation, continuous monitoring, vulnerability tracking, POA&M coordination, incident response support, ATO activities, and security oversight for a public-facing federal shared service. Support implementation, monitoring, and documentation of federal cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance requirements for Grants.gov applications, platform services, chatbot capabilities, integrations, and related support systems. Contribute to Authority to Operate activities, including security documentation updates, control evidence collection, assessment preparation, remediation tracking, and coordination with federal security stakeholders. Manage and support POA&M activities by tracking findings, coordinat