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Cybersecurity Operations Planner
Arlington, VA
Job Description
The Cybersecurity Operations Planner will support Federal government programs focused on developing and leveraging industry and government partnerships to reduce and manage cyber risk to our nation’s critical infrastructure. You will lead and support efforts to enable synchronized, holistic cybersecurity planning, cyber defense, and response. Tasks could include strategic planning support, long range planning support, products development, organizational design, and standard operating procedure development.
Job Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Federal Contracts: This position involves working on federal contracts that require all workers on the contract to be U.S. Citizens. Additionally, some contracts may require the ability to obtain a security clearance.
Salary Range: $130,000 – $160,000
LGI is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact talent@lafayettegroup.com. This email address is for accommodation requests only. Non-related messages will be disregarded.
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Lafayette Group provides equal employment opportunities to all persons and prohibits employment decisions based on race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Equal Opportunity Employer, Including disabled and veterans
Job Responsibilities:
- Develops detailed plans for the conduct or support of the applicable range of cyber operations through collaboration with other planners, operators and/or analyst
- Participates in targeting selection, validation, synchronization, and enables integration during the execution of cyber actions.
- Identify organizational capability, policy, and process gaps across the cyber landscape and develop plans to refine and improve operational processes and procedures
- Lead a team in the development and coordination of formal plans for cyber defense operations, to include deliberate and crisis action plans
- Facilitate operational planning that aligns with policy guidance and agency priorities and authorities among partners—to include USG; state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies (SLTT); private industry; and international partners
- Apply broad IT/cybersecurity background to operational, risk management, strategic, and programmatic support to assist federal clients with solution definition
- Lead development of plans, policies, and products that reduce cyber risk and align with organizational cybersecurity initiatives and requirements.
- Work closely with federal clients to develop a strategy and plan to expand cyber planning, which includes deliberate and crisis action plans to address the most pressing current and future potential risks.
- Manage or perform qualitative and quantitative research and data gathering to identify key themes, trends, and opportunities from complex information to support implementation of federal cybersecurity initiatives.
- Provide daily programmatic support to a DHS client with a national security mission by coordinating tasks, tracking programmatic issues, supporting meetings, preparing activity reports, and developing program briefs.
- Develop and manage updates to project planning documents such as project charters, standard operating procedures, deliverable trackers, and roadmaps/schedules.
- Build strong relationships with mid- and senior-level clients and stakeholders.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 10+ years of experience in a cybersecurity, management consulting, project management, or strategic/operational planning role
- Minimum 8 years of experience developing operational plans that drive defensive or offensive cyber operations. This experience must demonstrate the ability to work with a wide range of partners, preferably including private sector partners, on complex cybersecurity topics
- Experience in IT, cybersecurity, or national security related field
- Experience in technical writing and editing, as well as cyber incident management, is preferred
- Experience leading and/or supporting multi-month tasks/projects concurrently
- Ability to understand complex cybersecurity program policies/plans/directives, and then apply knowledge to identify and recommend approaches and deliverables
- Experience developing briefings, analyzing trends in large data sets, and providing recommendations on business processes and workflows
- Proficiency in information and collaboration technologies such as Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and SharePoint to evaluate, create, store, and communicate information
- Experience leading discussions, presenting project status updates, and proposing solutions to managers or clients
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple customers
- Excellent oral and written communication/presentation skills
- Strong cultural fit and value alignment with Lafayette Group, Inc
- Existing government security clearance at the Top-Secret level
- Current DHS or CISA Entry on Duty (EOD) status
- Experience in federal government, ideally military strategic and/or operational planning experience
- PMP or other industry certification such as CISSP
- Experience and/or interest in homeland security and cybersecurity/IT programs, tools, and concepts
Federal Contracts: This position involves working on federal contracts that require all workers on the contract to be U.S. Citizens. Additionally, some contracts may require the ability to obtain a security clearance.
Salary Range: $130,000 – $160,000
LGI is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact talent@lafayettegroup.com. This email address is for accommodation requests only. Non-related messages will be disregarded.
#LI-Hybrid
Lafayette Group provides equal employment opportunities to all persons and prohibits employment decisions based on race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Equal Opportunity Employer, Including disabled and veterans
Special Notes/Instructions
Contingent Hire
Job Summary
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Hours per Week
40
Salary and Benefits
$130,000 – $160,000
LGI carefully considers various factors when determining salary, including but not limited to education and training, professional experience, knowledge, skills and competencies, licensure and certifications, contract-specific affordability, and organizational requirements. New employees are not usually hired at the top of the estimated salary range and salary decisions depend on the circumstances and factors for each case. Salary is only one aspect of LGI’s generous total compensation package.
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
10+ years
Required Security Clearance
Top Secret
Security Clearance Note
This position involves working on federal contracts that require all workers on the contract to be U.S. Citizens. Additionally, some contracts may require the ability to obtain a security clearance.
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