Jr. Cybersecurity Associate

Govcio LLC•San Antonio, TX

20h•Onsite

About The Position

GovCIO is hiring a Zero Trust Network Analytics Engineer Journeyman to support a Zero Trust modernization project at 16AF. The role contributes to a fast-paced technical program focused on cybersecurity visibility and analytics, integrating identity and device context, assessing trust-source validity, and supporting continuous, risk-informed access decisions across the enterprise. This is an onsite position at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas. The position supports implementing, validating, and continuously improving Zero Trust principles through enhanced visibility and analytics. It involves working with identity, endpoint, access, posture, and network telemetry—including data from Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)—and helping integrate this information with SIEM and security analytics platforms. The role also develops analytics, dashboards, metrics, scripts, and documentation to evaluate access behavior, policy enforcement, and Zero Trust maturity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field.
Zero to two years of technical experience, including applicable internship experience.
Ability to obtain and retain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance.
Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly in written and verbal formats.
Willingness to learn cybersecurity tools, enterprise environments, and Zero Trust concepts.
Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Ability to obtain and retain an applicable DoW/DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification.
Ability to collaborate effectively with cybersecurity, identity, endpoint, network, and data engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

Internship, laboratory, research, capstone, or academic project experience involving Zero Trust, cybersecurity analytics, identity and access management, network access control, or security operations.
Exposure to Cisco ISE, including endpoint profiling, posture assessment, policy sets, authentication and authorization policies, Security Group Tags, downloadable access control lists, pxGrid, or TrustSec.
Familiarity with Zero Trust frameworks and guidance, such as NIST SP 800-207, the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model, the DoD Zero Trust Strategy, the Risk Management Framework (RMF), and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) requirements.
Experience analyzing authentication, authorization, endpoint, identity, access, or policy-enforcement data to identify trends, anomalies, and control gaps.
Exposure to SIEM or analytics platforms such as Splunk, Elastic, or Microsoft Sentinel, including query development, dashboards, alerting, and data correlation.
Familiarity with Cisco ISE integrations involving directory services, certificate services, endpoint management tools, vulnerability management platforms, SIEM platforms, or security orchestration tools.
Basic understanding of RADIUS, TACACS+, 802.1X, Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) methods, certificates, Active Directory, identity groups, device profiling, and posture assessment.
Experience defining or reporting metrics for asset visibility, identity assurance, device compliance, access-policy effectiveness, segmentation, and Zero Trust maturity.
Academic or practical exposure to Python, PowerShell, SQL, regular expressions, REST APIs, or comparable technologies used for data analysis and automation.
Experience using Git or another version control tool to manage queries, scripts, analytics content, policy definitions, or technical documentation.
Interest in transforming identity, device, and security telemetry into actionable recommendations that support continuous improvement of Zero Trust policies.
Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts including Zero Trust, least privilege, multi-factor authentication, and security monitoring.

Responsibilities

Translate Zero Trust principles and program objectives into measurable analytics, use cases, dashboards, alerts, and validation criteria.
Collect, normalize, correlate, and analyze identity, endpoint, posture, authentication, authorization, access, and network telemetry.
Support Cisco ISE configurations and analytics relating to endpoint discovery and profiling, identity groups, posture status, authentication, authorization, policy sets, Security Group Tags, and enforcement outcomes.
Analyze Cisco ISE logs, reports, authentication failures, policy decisions, endpoint classifications, and access trends to identify anomalies, coverage gaps, misclassifications, and opportunities for policy refinement.
Assist with integrating Cisco ISE identity and device context into SIEM, security analytics, asset management, vulnerability management, and orchestration platforms.
Develop and maintain dashboards and metrics for device visibility, authentication coverage, posture compliance, least-privilege enforcement, segmentation effectiveness, policy exceptions, and Zero Trust maturity.
Support validation and testing of Zero Trust policies by comparing intended access requirements with observed access activity and enforcement results.
Assist analysts and engineers in investigating anomalous access behavior, unmanaged or noncompliant devices, repeated authentication failures, excessive privileges, and indicators of lateral movement.
Write and maintain scripts, queries, and repeatable analytical procedures for data enrichment, correlation, reporting, quality validation, and control-effectiveness assessments.
Develop and maintain documentation for analytics use cases, data sources, trust signals, policy mappings, test procedures, findings, dashboards, metrics, and standard operating procedures.