Cyber Operations Planner III - HYBRID

Title: Cyber Operations Planner III

CLEARANCE: Active Top-Secret

*SCI Eligible & Client EOD but can start while in process.

WORK AUTHORIZATION: US Citizen

Overview:
Our client is seeking an experienced Cyber Operations Planner III to provide services on a contract supporting Client CISA Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC).

The ideal candidate will have excellent problem-solving and communications skills as well as previous work history supporting the development of detailed plans for the conduct or support of the applicable range of cyber operations through collaboration with other planners, operators and/or analysts.
This position requires a positive attitude, strong organizational skills, a drive to focus and produce results, and the ability to lead a team to meet objectives and foster strong customer relationships in a complex environment.

The Cyber Operations Planner III will perform among a talented and technically accomplished group of colleagues. On this contract, our team will support the U.S. Government agency across the following activities:

1. Facilitate across federal departments and agencies and the private sector plans for cyber defense operations.
2. Enable information sharing, coordination, and creation of pre-positioned resources and playbooks necessary to streamline a coordinated protection, detection and/or response activities in lockstep with among the federal government, private sector, and SLTT.
3. Collaborate the development of additional plans for offensive and intelligence activities in support of cyber defense operations, bringing federal civilian and defense agencies together with the private sector to collaborate on intelligence development and defensive measures.

Core Duties:

• Lead the support to cyber operations planning activities, including preparation of functional and specific support plans, preparing, and managing correspondence, and staffing procedures.
• Apply analytical methods typically employed to support planning and to justify recommended strategies and courses of action.
• Develop and execute comprehensive cyber operations assessment programs for assessing and validating operational performance characteristics.
• Synchronize operational assessment procedures with the critical information requirements.

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 10 years' experience providing similar services similar projects.
• Helping the Gov to figure out active Cyber-attacks and how to protect against them
• Coming up with other Cyber threats
• Policy issues around Cyber and Cyber threats
• Not necessarily tech but understands the Cyber threat landscape.
• Conceptual and academic (not managing firewalls)

DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Experience working in IT and cybersecurity environments in U.S. Government agencies or critical infrastructure entities.

EDUCATION LEVEL: BA/BS but Master's Degree from an accredited academic institution in a relevant field preferred

WORK LOCATION: Ballston Arlington, VA (25% Remote 3 days on-site 2 days remote)

INTERVIEW PROCESS: Resume / Screen (FITS) / Interview (FITS Panel) / SCI (2 weeks) / Start