Cybersecurity Exercise Planner & Operations Lead

Leidos Inc; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 82,550 - 149,225; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Security clearances helper

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an Exercise Planner to join an exercise support team providing HSEEP exercise planning and design, development, conduct, and evaluation support for CISA's NCEP. Responsibilities include coordinating planning meetings, developing documentation, and supporting participant registration and findings analysis.

The role supports day-to-day operations and exercise events while maintaining organized materials.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience developing, conducting, and evaluating HSEEP exercises.
• Experience writing exercise planning, conduct, and evaluation materials.
• Experience providing administrative and documentation support in fast-paced ops environment.
• Strong editing/formatting to ensure style consistency and grammar.

Responsibilities

• Support exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation for multiple exercises nationwide.
• Coordinate exercise planning meetings, scheduling, logistics, and capture action minutes.
• Create and maintain exercise documentation packages (invitations, sign-in sheets, notes).
• Assist participant registration/tracking using program tools.
• Collect and organize findings, recommendations, and lessons learned for post-exercise products.
• Support program operations (calendar maintenance, content organization on CISA.gov).
• Develop exercise scenarios, questions, injects, goals/objectives, conduct materials, and evaluation materials.
• Meet with Senior Exercise Planners/Regional Leads to ensure timely materials and execution.

Skills

HSEEP

Exercise design

Administrative support

Editing/formatting

Attention to detail

Documentation

Tools

Dashboard tools

Job description

Leidos is seeking an Exercise Planner to join an exercise support team providing HSEEP exercise planning and design, development, conduct, and evaluation support for CISA's NCEP. Responsibilities include coordinating planning meetings, developing documentation, and supporting participant registration and findings analysis.

The role supports day-to-day operations and exercise events while maintaining organized materials.