Vulnerability Management / ACAS Analyst (Journeyman)

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Journeyman Vulnerability Management / ACAS Analyst to support vulnerability tracking, remediation coordination, and cybersecurity compliance reporting for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

The Vulnerability Management / ACAS Analyst will review ACAS findings provided by Government personnel, reconcile affected systems and devices with inventory records, and coordinate corrective actions with responsible administrators. The analyst will track remediation tickets, dependencies, deadlines, POA&M updates, and supporting evidence through resolution.

This role will also coordinate Government rescans, review the resulting data to verify remediation, and maintain accurate vulnerability status information for operational reporting, compliance reviews, and cybersecurity inspections.

This position is remote, with a preference for candidates located in the Chicago area.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Vulnerability Management / ACAS Analyst will:

• Review ACAS vulnerability findings provided by Government personnel.

• Analyze findings to identify affected assets, systems, applications, devices, and responsible support teams.

• Reconcile affected assets against configuration-management, inventory, and asset-management records.

• Research discrepancies between ACAS results and authoritative asset inventories.

• Support prioritization of vulnerabilities based on severity, asset criticality, mission impact, remediation deadlines, and Government direction.

• Coordinate corrective actions with system administrators, infrastructure teams, application teams, engineers, and other remediation owners.

• Create, update, and monitor vulnerability-remediation tickets in the designated workflow system.

• Track assigned owners, corrective actions, technical dependencies, target completion dates, and current remediation status.

• Follow up with responsible personnel to obtain status updates and identify issues that could delay remediation.

• Collect technical documentation, screenshots, configuration results, ticket records, and other evidence supporting remediation completion.

• Review supporting evidence for completeness before requesting validation or rescanning.

• Coordinate Government rescan requests for vulnerabilities reported as remediated.

• Review Government-provided rescan results to verify that corrective actions successfully resolved identified vulnerabilities.

• Document validated closures and retain supporting evidence in the designated Government repository.

• Track compliance with applicable Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts and Information Assurance Vulnerability Management requirements.

• Create and update POA&M entries for vulnerabilities requiring formal corrective-action tracking.

• Maintain accurate vulnerability status information for recurring reports, dashboards, compliance reviews, and cybersecurity inspections.

• Identify overdue, high-risk, recurring, or unresolved findings and escalate them to the Senior Vulnerability Management / ACAS Response Analyst or cybersecurity leadership.

• Track remediation dependencies involving patch availability, configuration changes, application testing, maintenance windows, or operational constraints.

• Assist with documenting false positives, mitigating controls, operational dependencies, and Government-approved risk decisions.

• Support review of Endpoint Security Solutions reports and tracking of applicable endpoint-security findings.

• Develop vulnerability aging reports, remediation status summaries, compliance metrics, and supporting briefing materials.

• Help identify recurring vulnerabilities, process gaps, inaccurate asset records, and opportunities to improve remediation workflows.

• Support maintenance of vulnerability-management procedures, standard operating procedures, tracking tools, and reporting templates.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field.

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant cybersecurity, information assurance, vulnerability-management, or information-security experience.

• Current CompTIA Security+ certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) certification.

• Experience reviewing ACAS or Tenable vulnerability-scan results in a Department of Defense environment.

• Experience reconciling vulnerability findings against hardware, software, configuration-management, or asset-inventory records.

• Experience coordinating vulnerability remediation with system administrators, infrastructure teams, and application support teams.

• Knowledge of Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts and Information Assurance Vulnerability Management requirements.

• Experience creating and maintaining cybersecurity POA&Ms.

• Experience using ServiceNow or another ticketing and workflow-management platform to track remediation activities.

• Familiarity with Endpoint Security Solutions, STIG Viewer, SCAP tools, eMASS, or comparable DoD cybersecurity technologies.

• Knowledge of the DoD Risk Management Framework, NIST SP 800-53 controls, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, and applicable DoD cybersecurity directives.

• Experience collecting, reviewing, and maintaining technical evidence supporting vulnerability remediation and closure.

• Experience coordinating rescans and reviewing results to verify successful remediation.

• Experience preparing vulnerability reports, remediation metrics, aging summaries, dashboards, or inspection-support materials.

• Familiarity with current DoD 8140 cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements.

• Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, communication, and follow-through skills.

• Ability to manage multiple findings, owners, dependencies, and deadlines in a structured compliance environment.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

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