Strategic Offensive Cyberspace Planner (Journeyman)

Cyber Security Jobs; Fort Meade, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos invites qualified professionals to join the Intelligence Sector as Journeyman-level Offensive Cyberspace Operational Planners supporting USCYBERCOM operations, CNMF, and JTF-ARES. You will engage in planning, development, and staffing of CO plans, delivering cyber effects and ensuring synchronization with national objectives.

The role requires TS/SCI with polygraph, DoD/IC training in Cyber Operational Planning, and a deep understanding of Joint Publications, campaigns, and cyber

Qualifications

• Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and Polygraph required for consideration.

Responsibilities

• Engage in approved plans development and staffing processes within collaborative environment to enable range of Cyberspace Operations (CO) according to USCYBERCOM planning guidance and applicable Joint publications.
• Develop and synchronize Offensive Cyberspace Operational (OCO) plans to deliver integrated cyber effects against adversary systems in support of Joint and National strategic objectives.
• Support targeting selection, validation, synchronization, and enable integration during the execution of activities within Cyber Warfare domain
• Draft and staff foundational planning documents such as Operational Plans (OPLANS), Operational Orders (OPORDs), and Fragmentary Orders (FRAGOs).
• Support Joint Operational Planning Groups and Teams (OPG/OPT), and develop and integrate Cyberspace capabilities into plans.
• Develop concepts of support, courses of action, integrate command and external capabilities, coordinate and document comprehensive plans.
• Engage in, and provide situational awareness to, range of projects, Crisis Action Teams, and current operations activities supporting OPTs.
• Demonstrate knowledge of cyber threats and attack methods and techniques emanating from state and non-state adversaries and tiered vulnerabilities within Blue Space as focus of threats.
• Review, approve, prioritize, and submit operational requirements for research, development, and/or acquisition of cyber capabilities.
• Analyze and assess internal and external partner CO capabilities and tools.
• Transition operational planning efforts to current operations.
• Navigate organizational structure as it pertains to full spectrum CO, including the functions, responsibilities, and interrelationships among distinct internal elements.
• Integrate and synchronize intelligence planning activities with operational planning timelines.
• Conduct long-range, strategic planning efforts with internal and external partners in cyber activities.
• Communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.

Skills

Top Secret clearance with SCI eligible

BA/BS degree in Computer Science or Cy

CO Planner experience (since 2018)

OCO concepts familiarity

Joint Publications familiarity

Cyber Operational Planner training

Blue-space Cyber knowledge

Networking fundamentals knowledge

Analytical writing & briefings

Fast-paced collaborative work

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science / Cybersecurity

Masters degree in related field

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Leidos invites qualified professionals to join the Intelligence Sector as Journeyman-level Offensive Cyberspace Operational Planners supporting USCYBERCOM operations, CNMF, and JTF-ARES. You will engage in planning, development, and staffing of CO plans, delivering cyber effects and ensuring synchronization with national objectives.

The role requires TS/SCI with polygraph, DoD/IC training in Cyber Operational Planning, and a deep understanding of Joint Publications, campaigns, and cyber