Senior Cybersecurity Trainer & Readiness Lead

Leidos; Shiloh (IL); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in the United States is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity Trainer to lead development, delivery, and assessment of training for the TN22 workforce supporting CSSP and DoD missions. You will act as a senior instructor and SME, coordinating with program managers and government stakeholders to ensure timely, relevant, and mission-aligned training.

The role requires coordinating across multiple sites and shifts, maintaining documentation, and measuring training effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance; must be able to maintain clearance eligibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, education, instructional design, or related discipline, with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience delivering cybersecurity, information technology, network operations, or operational training in a large or geographically distributed organization.
• Experience developing and maintaining training content, including lesson plans, instructional materials, practical exercises, and learner assessments.
• Working knowledge of DoD cyber workforce concepts, including DoD 8140 and DoD Cyber Workforce Framework work roles.
• Experience assessing training effectiveness and identifying workforce training or capability gaps.
• Ability to coordinate with Government, contractor, technical, and operational stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, delivery, and continuous improvement of cybersecurity training for the TN22 workforce.
• Deliver instructor-led, virtual, hands-on, and scenario-based training supporting cyber defense, network operations, and CSSP mission requirements.
• Develop and maintain training materials, lesson plans, instructor guides, student guides, practical exercises, assessments, and associated training records.
• Support training plans aligned to assigned DoD Cyber Workforce Framework work roles, contractual requirements, mission needs, and applicable DoD 8140 qualification requirements.
• Coordinate with technical and functional leads to ensure training content reflects current operational tools, procedures, threats, and mission priorities.
• Assess learner performance and training effectiveness through knowledge checks, practical exercises, feedback, and readiness assessments.
• Identify individual and collective training gaps and recommend training, mentoring, remediation, or development actions to program leadership.
• Support the planning, execution, and evaluation of collective training events, technical exercises, tabletop events, and readiness-validation activities.
• Capture lessons learned from training events, exercises, operational feedback, and readiness assessments; update training content and methods accordingly.
• Coordinate training schedules, facilities, virtual platforms, materials, and instructor resources across multiple sites and stakeholder organizations.
• Maintain complete and accurate training documentation, qualification records, attendance rosters, assessment results, and other required program artifacts.
• Contribute to readiness metrics, dashboards, and recurring reports by providing timely and accurate training-status data.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior trainers, instructors, and training coordinators.
• Brief program leadership and stakeholders on training execution, learner performance, training risks, readiness gaps, and recommended corrective actions.

Skills

Instructor-led delivery

Cybersecurity training

DoD 8140 knowledge

DoD Cyber Workforce Framework

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity

Instructional design or education degree

Job description

Leidos in the United States is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity Trainer to lead development, delivery, and assessment of training for the TN22 workforce supporting CSSP and DoD missions. You will act as a senior instructor and SME, coordinating with program managers and government stakeholders to ensure timely, relevant, and mission-aligned training.

The role requires coordinating across multiple sites and shifts, maintaining documentation, and measuring training effectiveness.