Vulnerability Management Analyst

Peraton is seeking a Vulnerability Management Analyst to join the CIO organization and support the FAA BNATCS program by providing specialized cybersecurity and risk management services to protect National Airspace System (NAS) systems, enterprise infrastructure, and missioncritical applications. This role is responsible for identifying, analyzing, tracking, and mitigating vulnerabilities across FAA environments, and for ensuring compliance with federal security requirements. The Vulnerability Management Analyst strengthens the organization's cybersecurity posture by validating findings, assessing risk, coordinating remediation with engineering and operations teams, and supporting continuous monitoring aligned with NIST 80053 and related governance controls.

Key Responsibilities may include:

Vulnerability Identification & Analysis

Perform continuous vulnerability scanning across servers, endpoints, networks, cloud platforms, and applications
• Analyze scan results to identify threats, misconfigurations, and weaknesses across environments
• Analyze scan results to validate true positives, categorize vulnerability types, and assess potential impact
• Correlate findings with threat intelligence to identify exploitation likelihood and risk severity
• Maintain awareness of emerging vulnerabilities (e.g., CISA KEVs, zerodays, vendor advisories) and evaluate relevance to environments
• Validate findings, assess severity and risk impact, and distinguish false positives from actionable vulnerabilities

Risk Prioritization & Reporting

• Provide regular updates to cybersecurity leadership regarding highrisk or overdue vulnerabilities requiring escalation
• Support governance reporting requirements, including inputs for executive briefings, performance reviews, and continuous monitoring submissions
• Ensure risk decisions, remediation plans, and exceptions are documented, approved, and tracked in accordance with NIST 80053 control requirements
• support creation of dashboards, metrics, and trend analyses to measure vulnerability remediation performance
• Prepare detailed vulnerability and risk reports for stakeholders, ISSOs, SOC teams, and system owners
• Prioritize vulnerabilities based on environment risk models, mission impact, threat intelligence, and criticality of affected assets

Remediation Coordination

• Collaborate with system owners, network engineers, developers, and operations teams to drive timely remediation of findings
• Track remediation efforts, document mitigation strategies, and verify closure of vulnerabilities
• Provide technical recommendations to reduce exposure and strengthen system defenses

Compliance & Governance

• Support adherence to federal cybersecurity frameworks including NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, FISMA, TIC, and information security policies
• Assist with POA&M (Plan of Action & Milestones) documentation, updates, and lifecycle management
• Participate in ATO (Authorization to Operate) and continuous monitoring activities within the RMF process

Continuous Improvement & Security Enhancement

• Contribute to development and refinement of vulnerability management procedures, SOPs, and scanning schedules
• Stay current with emerging threats, CVEs, and security advisories relevant to aviation and federal agencies
• Support incident response teams by providing vulnerability insights that inform threat analysis and containment

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience with a BS/BA, 3+ years with a MS/MS, or a PhD in Cybersecurity, IT, Computer Science, or related discipline
• 3+ years of experience in vulnerability management, cybersecurity operations, or IT security.
• Working knowledge of vulnerability scanning tools (Tenable, Prisma Cloud Compute, etc.) and security information platforms.
• Understanding of NIST RMF, FISMA, and federal security policies.
• Experience analyzing CVEs, CVSS scoring, and vulnerability exploitability.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the required FAA clearance.
• US Citizenship with the ability to obtain/maintain an FAA Public Trust
• Candidates must be local and able to work on-site out of our Herndon/Chantilly, VA or Bowie, MD locations
• Position may require occasional travel to other Peraton or Customer sites in the National Capital Region

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications such as Security+, CySA+, CEH, GSEC, GCIH, or similar
• Experience with POA&M management, RMF packages, or continuous monitoring activities
• Knowledge of configuration management and patch management processes

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.