Cybersecurity Specialist – Defense Controls

Responsibilities

• Provides operational governance and control performance oversight for defensive and protective cybersecurity controls.
• Manages cybersecurity controls, platforms, tooling, and oversight of managed services.
• Governs and oversees IAM platforms such as Entra and Microsoft Defender.
• Oversees all identity lifecycle services and capabilities delivered internally or via managed service providers.
• Acts as the focal point for escalating IAM operational issues.
• Responsible for compliance to identity and access management related internal policies and standards, and external regulations.
• Oversees access governance, PAM, JIT, MFA, SoD, access reviews, and audit‑support services.
• Supports incident response and legal action requests, such as providing access logs.
• Defines and maintains cybersecurity operational processes for asset inventories for IT and OT environments.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
• 8-10 years of Infrastructure Security including vulnerability management
• 5 years of cloud cybersecurity controls management
• 5 years of IAM controls management
• Strong knowledge of modern vulnerability, cloud, and infrastructure cybersecurity tools and platforms
• Understanding of modern data protection technologies
• IT/OT Cyber Security technical expert on existing IT/OT Cyber Security solutions and perform assessment on systems, processes and standards to define and/or endorse changes.
• Knowledge of IT Security and infrastructure technologies
• Process driven
• Knowledgeable about policies, procedures, systems and best practices in the IT / OT Industry
• Strong planning skills
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Ability to work effectively in virtual teams
• Strong communication skills