Senior Cyber Security Analyst — DoD-Ready & AI-Driven

Strategic Growth Partners; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Growth Partners is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Analyst to lead assessments, remediation, and program transformation for clients in regulatory environments including federal and defense sectors.

The role emphasizes hands-on incident response, risk management, and continuous monitoring, with travel up to 60% and a hybrid workplace. Security leadership will support ICAM modernization and DevSecOps across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in cybersecurity for large enterprises or complex engagements.
• Experience supporting security assessments, incident response, or compliance remediation.
• Government/defense experience preferred; DoD RMF/ STIGs familiarity a plus.
• Active secret clearance required; TS/SCI preferred; US citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Support cybersecurity assessments, evidence gathering, and remediation tracking.
• Design security operations processes and incident response playbooks.
• Assess IAM readiness and build implementation roadmaps aligned with timelines.
• Analyze dependencies between remediation and cloud migrations.
• Support ICAM modernization and onboarding to enterprise identity services.
• Prepare readouts on program status, resources, and risks for leadership.
• Build continuous control-monitoring with automated evidence collection.

Skills

Security assessments

Threat detection

Vulnerability management

IAM & Zero Trust

Cloud security

Regulatory compliance

AI-assisted security

Vendor risk

Security awareness

Federal contracting

ICAM

Continuous monitoring

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree

Security+ / CISSP / CISM / CCSP (or equivalent)

Tools

SIEM / SOAR

DISA STIGs

eMASS / Xacta / Archer

Job description

Strategic Growth Partners is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Analyst to lead assessments, remediation, and program transformation for clients in regulatory environments including federal and defense sectors.

The role emphasizes hands-on incident response, risk management, and continuous monitoring, with travel up to 60% and a hybrid workplace. Security leadership will support ICAM modernization and DevSecOps across cloud environments.