Cyber Operations Planner SME - Clearance Required

About the role

Lockheed Martin, Rotary Mission Systems Cyber & Intelligence invites you to step up to one of today’s most daunting challenges: the use of advanced electronics to undermine our way of life. As a cyber security professional at Lockheed Martin, you’ll protect the networks that our citizens and the world depend upon each minute: financial assets, healthcare information, critical infrastructure, hazardous materials, and the uninterrupted flow of energy that keeps modern life moving. You’ll work with cybersecurity experts on the forefront of threat protection and proactive prevention in a fast-paced, real-world environment, drawing on your education, experience, and Lockheed Martin’s resources to keep threats at bay.

The scope of this effort encompasses tasks that provide USCYBERCOM with the sustained ability to fulfill its mission to direct, synchronize, and coordinate cyberspace planning and operations to defend and advance national interests in collaboration with domestic and international partners. These tasks include coordinating, synchronizing, deconflicting, and integrating operational planning efforts for full-spectrum cyberspace operations. The anticipated award of this effort is Fall 2026.

As a Cyber Operations Planner SME you will provide Cyberspace Operations Support Services (COSS) aligned with the following core disciplines: Cyberspace Operations, Cyberspace Planning, Cyberspace Training and Exercises, Strategy/Policy/Doctrine Development and Campaign, Assessments, Information Technology (IT)/Communications, Business Area Support and Project Management Engagement Activities. You will provide the customer with the sustained ability to fulfill its mission to direct, synchronize, and coordinate cyberspace planning and operations to defend and advance national interests in collaboration with domestic and international partners. These tasks include coordinating, synchronizing, deconflicting, and integrating operational planning efforts for full-spectrum cyberspace operations. You will meet the evolving cyberspace operations mission in support of the Joint warfighter.

Responsibilities

• Apply an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop, validate and verify Cyber solutions across the lifecycle.
• Conduct cyber risk assessment activities including threat modeling, vulnerability analysis and analysis of mitigation solutions.
• Coordinate and address Supply Chain risk management concerns.
• Develop, evaluate and analyze design constraints, trade-offs and detailed system and security design as they pertain to the Cyber domain.
• Coordinate with Cyber and system architects and developers to provide oversight in the development of solutions.
• Conduct cybersecurity test and evaluation of hardware and/or software designs to verify and validate compliance with defined specifications and requirements.
• Employ cyber security processes, methods, techniques and tools and assure their consistent application.
• Implement appropriate Assessment and Authorization activities as required by customers.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma plus more than 13 years of relevant experience or
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber Operations, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus more than 10 years of relevant experience or
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber Operations, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus more than 8 years of relevant experience.

In addition, you must have:

• Experience developing enterprise‑wide cyber operations planning doctrines and leading multi‑disciplinary planning cells, coordinating intelligence, legal, and acquisition stakeholders.
• Experience advising senior leadership on strategic alignment of cyber capabilities and representing the organization in inter‑agency cyber strategy forums.
• Experience performing risk assessments, creating mitigation strategies, and reviewing post‑execution metrics to continuously refine planning methodologies.
• Experience conducting targeting validation, synchronization, and integration of cyber actions, ensuring alignment with mission objectives and adjusting plans based on emerging intelligence or technical constraints.
• Experience preparing briefing packages for command staff that clearly conveyed plan intent, risks, required resources, and tracked task dependencies and timelines using tools such as JIRA and MS Project.
• Current U.S. TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with DoD cyber planning tools and templates (e.g., JCIDS).
• Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to produce clear briefings and written plans.
• Analytical mindset for rapid assessment of target environments.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Proficiency with planning and project‑management software.
• Understanding of cyber‑operation concepts, targeting cycles, and the kill‑chain.
• Experience in a DoD, intelligence, or coalition cyber environment preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10)
• 401(k) match
• Paid time off, Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Education Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (payments not guaranteed and vary by performance)

For Washington state applicants only: Non-represented full-time employees accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) and receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full-time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month, up to 52 hours of sick leave annually, and receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $166,900.00 – $309,900.00

Lockheed Martin considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, work location, and business considerations when extending an offer.