IT Cyber Specialist

accenturefederalservices; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a security operations professional to manage the day-to-day lifecycle of cloud security findings across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud environments. You will review alerts from a government-focused cloud security platform, assess issues, coordinate remediation, and confirm fixes before closure.

The role emphasizes tracking, reporting, ticketing, and measurable risk management to keep risks visible and progress trackable across security programs.

Responsibilities

• Review cloud vulnerability, configuration, exposure, and compliance findings; validate results and reduce noise before prioritizing work.
• Rank actionable findings using factors such as severity, exploitability, internet exposure, asset criticality, and business context.
• Create and track tickets with an assigned owner and target date, maintaining a register through verified closure, approved exceptions, or risk acceptance.
• Work with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to explain findings, discuss remediation options, follow up on delayed work, and elevate blockers.
• Coordinate patch compliance and removal of end-of-life software; rescan environments to confirm remediation before closing findings.
• Respond to critical findings through established incident and escalation processes, and prepare recurring metrics on open risks, aging, service targets, and remediation trends.
• Support security posture reviews against relevant frameworks and audit evidence requests; help maintain platform access, reports, integrations, and workflows.

Job description

Role overview

Manage the day-to-day lifecycle of cloud security findings across cloud environments. You’ll review alerts from a cloud security posture platform, assess which issues need action, coordinate remediation with system owners and technical teams, and confirm fixes before findings are closed. The role also helps maintain recurring tracking, reporting, and ticketing practices so risks remain visible and progress can be measured.

Responsibilities

• Review cloud vulnerability, configuration, exposure, and compliance findings; validate results and reduce noise before prioritizing work.
• Rank actionable findings using factors such as severity, exploitability, internet exposure, asset criticality, and business context.
• Create and track tickets with an assigned owner and target date, maintaining a register through verified closure, approved exceptions, or risk acceptance.
• Work with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to explain findings, discuss remediation options, follow up on delayed work, and elevate blockers.
• Coordinate patch compliance and removal of end-of-life software; rescan environments to confirm remediation before closing findings.
• Respond to critical findings through established incident and escalation processes, and prepare recurring metrics on open risks, aging, service targets, and remediation trends.
• Support security posture reviews against relevant frameworks and audit evidence requests; help maintain platform access, reports, integrations, and workflows.

Requirements

The available source describes the role’s work across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud environments and its use of a government-focused cloud security posture and workload protection platform. It does not provide enough detail to establish specific years of experience, certifications, education, or other candidate qualifications.