STATUS: ACTIVELY INTERVIEWING
Available for Remote SOC / GRC / ISSM roles.
TS/SCI active. Six-plus years operational. Lockheed ISSM background, USAF NOC tempo, current AI red-team practice. Finishing my B.S. at WGU (Cybersecurity & Information Assurance, expected December 2026) while interviewing now.
$ cat ./candidate_profile.json
// Profile
CLEARANCE
Active TS/SCI
LOCATION
Greater Orlando, FL · Remote-first (hybrid considered)
AVAILABILITY
Interviewing now · can start immediately for the right role
ROLE TYPES
EMPLOYMENT
EDUCATION
B.S. Cybersecurity & Information Assurance · WGU · Expected December 2026
CERTIFICATIONS
GSEC · GFACT · Security+ CE (8570) · Network+ N10-009 · A+ · ITIL 4
$ ls ./highlights/
// Track Record
241
Systems hardened in a 24-hour sprint at USAF Ramstein to mitigate a zero-day during a high-threat window — zero rework on follow-up audit.
100%
Audit log retention across classified DoD programs at Lockheed Martin — engineered Splunk dashboards and tuned correlation rules to cut false positives.
99.9%
Uptime on RHEL fleet via disciplined patch management and proactive log monitoring — Active Directory, Windows Server, and Linux administered under DoD STIG baselines.
$ ./loadout –short
// Core Stack
SOC OPS
Splunk SIEM · correlation tuning · threat hunting · incident response · MITRE ATT&CK
GRC
NIST 800-53 · NIST 800-171 · RMF · CMMC · ISO 27001 · POA&M
ENDPOINT
McAfee HBSS · ACAS · STIG hardening · EDR / XDR
INFRA
RHEL · Windows Server · Active Directory · Azure · PowerShell · Bash
EMERGING
LLM red teaming · prompt-injection defense · adversarial ML · RLHF eval
$ ./initiate_contact
// Contact
// EMAIL
southerncybersolutions@protonmail.com
// LINKEDIN
/in/nicholas-southern
// RESUME
Nicholas_A_Southern_Resume.pdf
Note for recruiters: Encrypted email preferred for any clearance-sensitive details. Response time within one business day. Happy to do a 15-minute intro call — just send a couple of available windows.