Ardent

Compliance

• Lead ingestion and analysis of agency documentation, including risk assessments, remediation plans, prior findings, corrective actions, inventories, and strategic plans
• Direct development of the Agency Risk Understanding Memorandum, including environmental summaries, agency-specific risks, assumptions, documentation gaps, and impacts on testing priorities
• Design the Ground-Truth and Ad Hoc Testing Strategies and approve detailed procedures covering objectives, systems, controls, access points, tools, sampling, scripts, evidence, thresholds, stop conditions, and escalation paths
• Map procedures and results to NIST CSF DE.AE, DE.DP, PR.AC; Rule 60GG-2, F.A.C.; and applicable approved criteria
• Ensure testing remains within written OCIG authorization, avoids duplication of operational testing, and complies with agency-specific Rules of Engagement
• Review evidence for relevance, reliability, sufficiency, attribution, timestamps, chain of custody, and reproducibility
• Validate reports for accurate statements of procedures performed and factual results without an audit opinion; ensure advisory recommendations are distinctly labeled
• Conduct independent QA reviews of technical deliverables and document sign-off
• Lead technical briefings, workshops, job aids, and knowledge transfer for OCIG and OIG staff
• Support urgent analysis of logs, timelines, after-action reports, remediation evidence, and incident-specific control issues when directed

Governance, Risk, and Compliance Analyst

Analyst

• Monitor approved testing activity across SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, and ticketing systems
• Validate whether expected signals are generated, correlated, enriched, prioritized, and accurately represented in alerts
• Trace analyst triage, escalation, communications, and handling timelines against approved criteria and agency expectations
• Perform alert investigation, packet and network traffic analysis, log correlation, IOC review, malware or phishing analysis when in approved scope, and event-timeline reconstruction
• Develop or recommend detection logic improvements, use cases, correlation rules, dashboards, and tuning actions
• Preserve screenshots, alerts, queries, logs, timestamps, ticket records, analyst actions, and annotations in controlled evidence packages
• Identify telemetry gaps, blind spots, false negatives, inaccurate severity, weak correlation, and broken escalation paths
• Support vulnerability, remediation, and incident-specific reviews requested through OCIG
• Help deliver knowledge-transfer sessions on detection validation and evidence interpretation

Detection & Monitoring Analyst

Program Manager

• Lead and oversee program delivery for a cybersecurity assurance program for the state of Florida
• Serve as the primary interface among company leadership, OCIG, agency OIGs, and technical leads
• Serve as the single accountable point of contact for OCIG and coordinate project management functions with the OCIG Contract Manager or designee
• Plan and conduct kickoff activities and document scope, roles, decisions, action owners, dependencies, communication protocols, risks, and approved deadlines
• Own the Master Project Plan and maintain milestones, staffing, testing waves, access readiness, risks, dependencies, decisions, corrective actions, and acceptance status
• Coordinate system access through OCIG and Agency OIG channels and maintain the System Access Log
• Track approvals, authorized personnel, training, background screening, access periods, and obstacles
• Enforce scope discipline and ensure changes are authorized in approved plans or Rules of Engagement
• Provide daily updates during active testing, bi-weekly program reviews, monthly project-plan submissions, and immediate escalation of critical vulnerabilities or deconfliction events
• Oversee submission of all ten deliverables and manage government comments and corrections through acceptance
• Ensure agency risks inform sequencing, resource allocation, and testing priorities
• Maintain independence, objectivity, confidentiality, public-records sensitivity, and separation of factual AUP results from advisory recommendations
• Lead closeout reporting, lessons learned, final project-plan completion, and executive briefings

Program Manager, PMP Required

Auditor

• Provide independent technical and assurance leadership for a cybersecurity assurance program for the state of Florida
• Convert OCIG objectives into audit-defensible testing strategies and step-by-step procedures
• Supervise evidence collection and analysis
• Verify factual findings are supported and traceable to applicable criteria across a multi-agency environment
• Lead ingestion and analysis of agency documentation, including risk assessments, remediation plans, prior findings, corrective actions, inventories, and strategic plans
• Direct development of the Agency Risk Understanding Memorandum
• Design Ground-Truth and Ad Hoc Testing Strategies and approve detailed testing procedures
• Map procedures and results to NIST CSF criteria, Rule 60GG-2, F.A.C., and applicable approved criteria
• Ensure testing remains within OCIG authorization, avoids duplication of operational testing, and complies with agency-specific Rules of Engagement
• Review evidence for relevance, reliability, sufficiency, attribution, timestamps, chain of custody, and reproducibility
• Validate reports and ensure advisory recommendations are distinctly labeled
• Conduct independent QA reviews of technical deliverables and document sign-off
• Lead technical briefings, workshops, job aids, and knowledge transfer
• Support urgent analysis of logs, timelines, after-action reports, remediation evidence, and incident-specific control issues

Cyber Lead Auditor / Test Lead

Recruitment

• Manage the full lifecycle recruiting process, from requisition intake and candidate sourcing through offer and onboarding
• Partner with hiring managers to understand position requirements and develop recruiting strategies
• Source candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, professional networks, employee referrals, and other recruiting channels
• Recruit for technical and professional positions supporting federal government contracts
• Develop and maintain candidate pipelines for current and anticipated contract and proposal requirements
• Screen resumes and conduct initial candidate interviews
• Source and engage candidates with active or previously held U.S. government security clearances
• Use Boolean search techniques and other sourcing strategies
• Coordinate interviews and maintain communication with candidates and hiring managers
• Prepare and extend employment offers and coordinate pre-employment requirements with Human Resources
• Maintain accurate candidate information and recruiting activity in the Applicant Tracking System
• Monitor recruiting activity and provide updates on candidate pipelines and hiring progress
• Support recruiting efforts for new contract awards, recompetes, and proposal opportunities
• Develop and maintain relationships with candidates and passive talent
• Represent Ardent at recruiting events and career fairs
• Ensure recruiting activities comply with company policies and applicable employment laws

Governance, Risk, and Compliance Analyst

Detection & Monitoring Analyst

Program Manager, PMP Required

Cyber Lead Auditor / Test Lead

Recruiter