Junior Cyber Exercise Planner for JCDC (TS/SCI)

Koitecc Solutions; Arlington, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Junior Exercise Planner - Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) to support HSEEP exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation for CISA's NCEP. You will work with a diverse team across government and industry to coordinate planning and execution of regional cyber exercises.

You will coordinate with JCDC members, participate in meetings, and help translate threat analyses into actionable exercise content, while supporting policy review and guidance for cyber

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Ability to obtain DHS Suitability / CISA EOD.
• 2+ years experience in supporting cybersecurity operations, cyber threat analysis, incident response, vulnerability management, cyber risk management, or cyber exercise planning.
• Familiarity with cyber incident response lifecycle activities, including detection, triage, escalation, containment, coordination, remediation, recovery, and post-incident improvement.
• Familiarity with threat intelligence, indicators of compromise, malware reporting, vulnerability information, and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Experience with HSEEP exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation.
• FEMA HSEEP Certification or ability to achieve HSEEP certification within 30 days of contract start.
• Strong writing skills to develop polished exercise materials and documents (such as EXPLANs, SITMANs, MSELs, and controller/observer instructions) and post-exercise products (including AAR drafting support).
• Demonstrated ability to manage time, meet deadlines and milestones.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Exercise Planner - JCDC.
• Coordinate between JCDC members and the CISA exercise support teams.
• Participate and collaborate with, as requested by CISA, the JCDC meetings to understand threat analysis, vulnerability information, and expert guidance that can be incorporated into CISA cyber exercises.
• Support the customer’s needs for cyber policy review and development, identifying hot button issues and trends in cyber threats, and guiding informed recommendations for cyber training and exercises based on expertise and experience.
• Review and refine ideas, exercise materials, and exercise foundation (i.e., scope, objectives, scenario, player actions, discussion questions, evaluation criteria, etc.) to ensure alignment with JCDC work and cyber response principles.
• Coordinate with Senior Exercise Planner - JCDC to report back to the JCDC, as requested by CISA, findings from exercises forming common threads and themes in cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Support the incorporation of JCDC elements into the CISA exercises.
• Communicate and coordinate regularly across exercise support team, with Senior Exercise Planners, Exercise Leads, and with exercise stakeholders.
• Support and participate in planning meetings (as appropriate), such as C&O, IP, MPM, MSEL Meeting, and FPM, and in developing all supporting documentation, including agendas, presentations, and notes.
• Support the development of core exercise documentation and artifacts (e.g., CONOPS, EXPLAN, SITMAN, MSEL, COSIN, evaluation forms, invitations/sign-in sheets).
• Support end-to-end exercise execution: concept and scope, execution support, evaluation approach, and post-exercise reporting (AAR and assigned reports).
• Report regularly to Exercise Leads and across exercise support team according to communications plan.
• Attend and participate in each exercise within assigned region, as required.
• Support development of new CISA Tabletop Exercise Packages (CTEPs) and maintenance of the CTEP scenario library.
• Support internal training activities to improve facilitation and planning skills across NCEP staff.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Strong writing skills

Time management

Cyber threat analysis

Exercise planning

Planning meetings coordination

Education

Cybersecurity/IT-related degree or cert

Tools

HSEEP methodology

EXPLAN/SITMAN templates

AAR development tools

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Junior Exercise Planner - Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) to support HSEEP exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation for CISA's NCEP. You will work with a diverse team across government and industry to coordinate planning and execution of regional cyber exercises.

You will coordinate with JCDC members, participate in meetings, and help translate threat analyses into actionable exercise content, while supporting policy review and guidance for cyber