Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kentro is hiring a Remote Risk Mitigation Analyst to support the VA ESOM contract. The role identifies, documents, and tracks non-cyber risks affecting application recovery, assists with tabletop exercises and evidence collection, maintains risk and corrective action records, and coordinates mitigation through validation and closure.
Responsibilities
- Collect contingency plans, system diagrams, inventories, recovery requirements, procedures, and supporting records for review
- Assist with identifying process, staffing, facility, vendor, resource, and technology dependency risks
- Support development of exercise scenarios, questions, participant lists, evaluation criteria, and meeting materials
- Record exercise decisions, observations, supporting evidence, unresolved questions, and assigned actions
- Maintain a risk and corrective action register with owners, priorities, milestones, target dates, evidence, and status
- Work with engineers and system owners to define clear mitigation steps and completion criteria
- Monitor remediation progress and escalate overdue or high-risk actions through established program channels
- Confirm that accepted risks are documented and approved by the appropriate authority
- Coordinate follow-up reviews and collect evidence needed to validate corrective action closure
- Prepare status reports on finding severity, aging, recurrence, remediation progress, and validated closure
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline
- * 5 years of relevant Experience
- * 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
- * Experience in technology risk, operational resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, audit, compliance, or program analysis
- * Knowledge of risk assessment, issue management, evidence review, and corrective action tracking
- * Ability to read technical plans and diagrams and summarize recovery risks accurately
- * Strong analytical, organizational, reporting, and follow-through skills
- * Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, application owners, and program leaders
- * US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card)
- * Willing and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust Clearance
- * Familiarity with NIST contingency planning controls and test, training, and exercise guidance
- * Experience managing audit findings, risk exceptions, plans of action and milestones, or similar corrective action records
- * Experience developing risk metrics, dashboards, or management reports
- * Familiarity with governance, risk, compliance, or service management platforms
- * Background supporting large federal, DoD, or public-sector IT environments
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Healthcare benefits
- Supplemental benefits
- 401k including an employer match
- Discount perks
- Rewards
- Education reimbursement for certifications, degrees, or professional development
- Flexibility to take a course, complete a certification, or pursue other professional growth and networking
- Funds for virtual and in-person activities, including happy hours, holiday events, fitness and wellness events, and annual celebrations
- Charity galas and events
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