Senior Cyber Threat Analysis & Defense Manager

ManTech

Lompoc (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

ManTech seeks a mission-focused Manager, Cybersecurity Threat Analysis to support the 630th Cyberspace Squadron at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The role provides senior technical and management leadership across cyber threat analysis, intelligence integration, defensive cyberspace operations, and mission assurance for Western Launch and Test Range Systems.

On-site at Vandenberg SFB, CA, this position leads contractor personnel, ensures high-quality technical delivery, and interfaces

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, intelligence studies, engineering, management, or a related discipline; an additional 4 years of relevant experience might be substituted for a degree.
10+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, cyber threat intelligence, defensive cyber operations, threat hunting, security operations, incident analysis, mission assurance, or intelligence analysis.
3+ years of technical leadership experience leading cybersecurity or intelligence teams, managing personnel, or serving in a senior cybersecurity leadership role.
Demonstrated experience leading cyber threat intelligence and analysis, including adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures; indicators of compromise; cyber campaigns; emerging threats; threat reporting; indications and warning; technical assessments; executive briefings; and time-sensitive RFIs.
Core understanding of DCO concepts, threat hunting, risk analysis, and CTI platform workflows within OT, SCADA, IC, or critical infrastructure environments.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage cyber threat intelligence, cybersecurity analysis, and mission-assurance personnel; prioritize and assign work; and maintain technical standards, quality-assurance processes, performance measures, and timely delivery of contract requirements.
Serve as the senior contractor technical representative for coordination with government leads, mission-planning cells, range operators, external intelligence organizations, and mission partners supporting the 630th Cyberspace Squadron and Space Launch Delta 30.
Direct cyber threat intelligence planning and production activities, including intelligence requirements, collection requirements, threat assessments, indications-and-warning reporting, technical reports, executive-level briefings, database entries, and time-sensitive RFIs.
Lead real-time threat monitoring, intelligence-driven threat hunting, and adversary analysis to identify and assess adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures; indicators of compromise; cyber campaigns; and emerging threats affecting mission-relevant terrain.
Lead Mission Area Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) reassessments and intelligence-gap management; maintain current, accurate, and operationally relevant IPB products, intelligence databases, and production workflows aligned with the Joint Planning Process and mission requirements.
Apply defensive cyberspace operations and mission-system cybersecurity expertise to assess threats and cyber risk affecting W-LTRS, range safety, telemetry, tracking, electrical distribution, SCADA, industrial control systems, and OT environments.
Manage cyber threat-emulation and exercise-support activities, including development of validated adversary-replication packages, planning and execution support for representative exercises, post-action validation assessments, and documentation of lessons learned and defensive gaps.
Identify, communicate, and recommend mitigation for mission risks—including technical, operational, staffing, schedule, and dependency risks—and provide cyber-hardening recommendations to the program manager and government customer.