Critical Infrastructure Protection Staff - Cyber Resilient Capability Development Lead

About the role

Do you have the enthusiasm and curiosity to seek, tackle, and create opportunities to solve the Nation's hardest cyber and intelligence challenges? Are you passionate about ensuring the resilience of National Security Systems and critical infrastructure against the most advanced cyber threats? Do you thrive at conceptualizing strategies and working across partner organizations to implement those strategies to drive high impact results supporting the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and state and local government partners? If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL.

We are seeking a senior cyber leader to develop and execute cyber resilience strategies, mission concepts, and operational capabilities that strengthen National Security Systems and critical infrastructure. The ideal candidate brings experience in cyber operations, intelligence, technical program leadership, risk management, sponsor engagement, and cross-organizational coordination across DoD, IC, DOE, and other government partners. You'll join a mission-driven team of researchers, scientists, and engineers working to protect the Nation's most critical infrastructure, including SCADA systems in electric utilities, PLC-controlled systems in manufacturing plants, automated HVAC/BAS in secure government buildings, and defense industrial base assets. Together, we strive to foster innovation and achieve mission impact through the application of science and technology to real-world challenges. As a member of our team, you will help develop transformational capabilities and strategies focused on cyber resilience for National Security Systems and critical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead cyber resilience programs from concept through execution, including scope, schedule, resources, budget, risk, compliance, and reporting
• Collaborate with sponsors and mission partners to define objectives, success criteria, and capability roadmaps
• Integrate offensive and defensive cyber perspectives into mission planning, vulnerability analysis, and resilience solutions
• Lead cross-functional teams, produce and deliver senior-level executive briefings, and move capabilities from planning into operational use
• Perform system security gap analysis, assess commercial tools