Cleared - Cybersecurity Advisor

Noblis; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,700 - 188,725; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Retirement plan

Tuition assistance

Paid leave

Professional development

Work-life balance

Job summary

Noblis is seeking a security professional to advance cyber defense programs for federal missions. You will evaluate capabilities, lead improvements, and design incident response playbooks within an agile framework. The role emphasizes cross‑functional collaboration, data analytics, and secure reporting across multiple teams.

The position requires a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, U.S. citizenship, and demonstrated expertise in automation, SIEM tuning, and secure architecture.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
• US citizenship is required.
• Multiple education paths are listed to meet experience requirements.
• Experience improving cyber defense operations, incident handling, and reporting product development.
• Ability to automate manual processes and optimize security workflows.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate cyber defense capabilities and identify gaps against objectives.
• Lead process and architecture improvements across security programs.
• Enhance incident response through procedures, playbooks, and escalation paths.
• Improve situational awareness with dashboards and real-time reporting.
• Maximize SIEM effectiveness and data correlation across sources.
• Develop security automation and standardized workflows.
• Manage reporting lifecycle from data collection to archival compliance.
• Coordinate cross‑functional security activities and stakeholder relationships.
• Lead tool integration and data analytics to inform decisions.
• Provide technical and programmatic support translating mission needs into requirements.

Skills

Clearance TS/SCI with Polygraph

US citizenship

Cyber defense operations

Incident response capabilities

SIEM tooling proficiency

Automation of processes

Education

Bachelor's degree + 6 years

Master’s degree + 4 years

PhD + 2 years

High School Diploma/GED + 10 years

Associate's degree + 8 years

Job description

Overview

Noblis and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis MSD, tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an independent and objective environment to deliver lasting impact on federal missions.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate cyber defense capabilities, conduct control assessments, identify gaps, establish metrics, and align with organizational security objectives.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives through process analysis, architectural improvements, workflow optimization, and capability enhancement roadmaps.
• Enhance incident response capabilities by designing procedures and playbooks, developing standardized approaches for different incident types, establishing escalation paths, and coordinating cross‑functional response activities.
• Improve situational awareness through effective reporting templates, actionable security dashboards, real‑time visibility mechanisms, and contextual intelligence distribution.
• Optimize security tool usage by maximizing SIEM effectiveness, fine‑tuning correlation rules, synthesizing multi‑source data, ensuring system integration, and recommending enhancements.
• Implement security automation by identifying suitable processes, designing workflows, developing scripts, implementing automated responses, and documenting procedures.
• Manage the security reporting lifecycle from data collection to distribution, ensuring timely delivery, implementing feedback mechanisms, establishing archival procedures, and meeting compliance requirements.
• Foster an agile security approach through methodologies such as security sprints, retrospectives, iterative development, and balancing agility with compliance requirements.
• Coordinate cross‑functional security activities as a liaison between teams, aligning initiatives with organizational goals, facilitating knowledge sharing, and building stakeholder relationships.
• Lead security tool integration through architecture design, API implementation, data normalization, integration testing, and documentation.
• Drive security data analytics by developing collection strategies, implementing advanced analytics, creating visualizations, designing KPIs, and leveraging data for decision‑making.
• Manage security automation development by establishing coding standards, ensuring proper testing, implementing change management, and documenting solutions.
• Provide technical and programmatic support to government teams by translating mission needs into technical requirements, managing those requirements, and shaping strategic program direction. Responsibilities include contract support (SOWs, RFPs, cost proposals), performance monitoring, stakeholder coordination, and communicating complex concepts through reports, meetings, and senior‑level briefings. The team ensures projects stay on track by overseeing cost, schedule, and performance.

Required Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree with 6 years of experience or Master’s degree with 4 years of experience or PhD with 2 years of experience or High School Diploma/GED with 10 years of experience or Associate's degree with 8 years of experience.
• Experience focused on overall technical and operational effectiveness of capabilities.
• Experience recommending continuous improvement of processes and architecture supporting overall cyber defense operational activities, including analysis, incident handling, and reporting products.
• Experience providing effective incident response capabilities and usable reports that address overall situational awareness.
• Experience maximizing the use of tools to correlate information and synthesize data into actionable events.
• Experience identifying and providing an agile approach to automation of manual or inefficient processes across the cyber defense program.

Desired Qualifications

• IC experience is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to independently conduct appropriate analysis and offer recommendations, solutions, and alternatives to resolve issues, concerns, and problems.
• Experience establishing strong working relationships with program managers and organization leadership; tracking task order efforts to rapidly identify and resolve potential and new problems; and identifying and resolving administrative and contractual issues related to a support services contract.
• Ability to solve problems in a rapidly changing environment and interface directly with customers.
• Strong understanding of intelligence disciplines, methodologies, and the intelligence cycle.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic, and team environment.

Benefits

Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements.

At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide growth opportunities, and support your total well‑being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work‑life programs. Full‑time and part‑time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be available for employees not within this category.

EEO Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, sex, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability, pregnancy/childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran or military status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us. EEO is the Law | E‑Verify | Right to Work.

Compensation

USD $120,700.00 – USD $188,725.00 /Yr.