Information Assurance- Exercise Planning

Crimson Phoenix; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Crimson Phoenix is seeking a specialist to coordinate and execute cyber exercise planning and evaluation for DoD, IC Operations Center, and mission partners. The role focuses on developing CSOC internal exercises and coordinating cross-agency participation to validate training and tools.

The position involves creating realistic scenario-based exercises, maintaining documentation, and producing after-action reports with actionable recommendations for government and contractor stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and ensure customer participation in planning and execution of cyber exercises for DoD, IC Operations Center, and other mission partners'/agencies’ exercises.
• Develop CSOC internal exercises to evaluate training, tools, processes, and personnel, including active exploitation testing to assess effectiveness.
• Ensure CSOC participation in planning and execution of all internal and external cyber or business continuity related exercises.
• Plan, coordinate, and facilitate actions to maximize CSOC participation from government and contractor personnel.
• Develop and execute scenario-based exercises to test training, tools, processes, and procedures within CSOC, including after-hours shifts.
• Develop, maintain, and provide documentation to plan and execute exercises and evaluations.
• Develop after actions reports detailing substantive details of each exercise and providing recommendations to the government for improvements.
• Provide input to the weekly CSOC Status Report.
• Coordinate and collaborate with internal or external stakeholders (government and contractor) as needed or directed by the government.

Job description

What You Will Be Doing

• The candidate shall provide exercise planning, support, and evaluations services that are responsible for coordinating and ensuring customer participation in the planning and execution of Federal, DoD, IC Operations Center (NOC), ESC Red/Blue Teams, CTE Teams, and other mission partner’s/agency’s cyber exercises..
• The candidate shall develop CSOC internal exercises to evaluate the effectiveness of training, tools, processes, and procedures to include active exploitation testing to determine effectiveness of tools, processes and people.
• Ensure CSOC participation in the planning and execution of all internal and external cyber or business continuity related exercises. .
• Planning, coordination, and facilitation actions needed to ensure maximum participation from all CSOC personnel (government and contractor) .
• Develop and execute custom, realistic, scenario based exercises to test the effectiveness of training, tools, processes, and procedures within the CSOC; this includes for shifts which operate after duty hours .
• Develop, maintain, and provide documentation as necessary to plan and execute exercises and evaluations .

• Develop after actions reports which detail the substantive details of each exercise and provide recommendations to the government on improvement opportunities
• Provide input to the weekly CSOC Status Report
• Coordinate and collaborate with any internal or external stakeholders (government and contractor) as needed or directed by the government in support of this service.