Cyber Tools & Lab Manager - Onsite Fort Bragg

ADP, Inc.; Fort Bragg (NC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Akira seeks a Tool Administrator/Lab Manager to support USARC cyberspace operations from Fort Bragg, NC. The role focuses on configuration management, authorization, sustainment, and lifecycle management of tools and lab infrastructure used by Blue Team and CTI operations.

The position is onsite at Fort Bragg, requires an Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI as applicable), and involves coordinating tool licenses, maintaining baselines, conducting scans, and ensuring secure lab environments.

Qualifications

• Active Secret security clearance at a minimum; TS/SCI eligibility/access where required by the role.
• Demonstrated experience administering cybersecurity tools, SIEM infrastructure, or related security technologies in a DoD or enterprise environment.
• Experience with configuration management, software lifecycle management, version control, and technology sustainment.
• Familiarity with DISA STIG/SRG requirements, ACAS/Tenable scanning, and IAVM remediation processes.
• Experience managing isolated laboratory, sandbox, or test environments and maintaining appropriate network separation.
• Knowledge of software licensing, patch management, configuration baselines, and change-control practices.
• Strong documentation, troubleshooting, and coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain configuration management of COTS, GOTS, contractor-developed scripts, analytic tools, and sandbox/laboratory infrastructure supporting Blue Team and CTI operations.
• Coordinate authorization for new tools, software versions, and extensions through the appropriate CNF or successor authorization process.
• Maintain the Tool Authorization Register, including authorized tools, functions, versions, licenses, and authorization references; provide updates to the COR quarterly and upon request.
• Ensure tools and infrastructure maintain current STIG/SRG-compliant baselines, conduct ACAS/Tenable scans, and remediate findings within required IAVM timelines.
• Maintain sandbox and laboratory environments with appropriate physical or logical separation from production networks and restrict connectivity to authorized channels.
• Support the CTI team in maintaining the DCO test lab, including the Government-approved connection isolated from NIPRNet for malware analysis and OSINT collection.
• Develop and maintain test plans, acceptance criteria, and rollback procedures for tool upgrades and configuration changes.
• Ensure penetration-testing tools are authorized and included on the ARCYBER-approved Penetration Tools list before use in CDAP activities.
• Coordinate with Government personnel to ensure required software licensing, hardware, network connectivity, and other mission-tooling resources are provisioned and sustained.
• Maintain tool baselines, patch schedules, configuration records, lifecycle documentation, and configuration-drift remediation actions.
• Prepare a semi-annual Technology Refresh Plan identifying tools approaching End-of-Life/End-of-Support and recommending replacement or sustainment actions.
• Ensure unauthorized tools or software are not introduced into production environments.
• Perform other tool administration, laboratory management, and DCO support duties as required.

Skills

Cybersecurity tools

SIEM infrastructure

Configuration management

Software lifecycle

Change control

Documentation

Coordination skills

Tools

Elastic

Tenable

ACAS

Job description

Akira seeks a Tool Administrator/Lab Manager to support USARC cyberspace operations from Fort Bragg, NC. The role focuses on configuration management, authorization, sustainment, and lifecycle management of tools and lab infrastructure used by Blue Team and CTI operations.

The position is onsite at Fort Bragg, requires an Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI as applicable), and involves coordinating tool licenses, maintaining baselines, conducting scans, and ensuring secure lab environments.