Cyber Strategy Planner

About the role

Join Life Cycle Engineering. Lead with purpose. Own the outcome. Do the right thing the right way.

The candidate will provide Cyber Policy & Strategy Planning support to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The role will Develops and maintains cybersecurity plans, strategy and policy to support and align with organizational cybersecurity initiatives and regulatory compliance.

Benefits

• Employee Ownership (ESOP): Build financial stake in your work. Our 100% employee-owned model directly connects your contributions to company performance and long-term wealth creation.
• Award-Winning Culture: Join an organization repeatedly recognized as a "Best Place to Work" driven by integrity, mutual respect, and a supportive team environment.
• Impactful Mission: Support defense operations, waterfront engineering, cyber infrastructure, and asset reliability programs that keep fleets and operations mission ready.

Responsibilities

• Develop policy, programs, and guidelines for implementation.
• Establish and maintain communication channels with stakeholders.
• Review existing and proposed policies with stakeholders.
• Serve on agency and interagency policy boards.
• Advocate for adequate funding for cyber training resources, to include both internal and industry-provided courses, instructors, and related materials.
• Ensure that cyber workforce management policies and processes comply with legal and organizational requirements regarding equal opportunity, diversity, and fair hiring/employment practices.
• Promote awareness of cyber policy and strategy as appropriate among management and ensure sound principles are reflected in the organization's mission, vision, and goals.
• Review/Assess cyber workforce effectiveness to adjust skill and/or qualification standards.
• Interpret and apply applicable laws, statutes, and regulatory documents and integrate into policy.
• Analyze organizational cyber policy.
• Assess policy needs and collaborate with stakeholders to develop policies to govern cyber activities.
• Draft, staff, and publish cyber policy.
• Monitor the rigorous application of cyber policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of planning and management services.
• Seek consensus on proposed policy changes from stakeholders.
• Provide policy guidance to cyber management, staff, and users.
• Review, conduct, or participate in audits of cyber programs and projects.
• Support the CIO in the formulation of cyber-related policies.

Requirements

• Must have an active DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
• Must have IAM Lvl 3 compliant certification like CISSP, CISM, or CCISO.
• Bachelor’s degree in Technical Discipline from an Accredited College or University
• Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
• Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
• Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
• Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
• Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, Procedural Language/Structured Query Language [PL/SQL] and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return-oriented attacks, malicious code).
• Knowledge of the organization’s core business/mission processes.
• Knowledge of applicable laws, statutes (e.g., in Titles 10, 18, 32, 50 in U.S. Code), Presidential Directives, executive branch guidelines, and/or administrative/criminal legal guidelines and procedures.
• Knowledge of full spectrum cyber capabilities (e.g., defense, attack, exploitation).
• Knowledge of emerging technologies that have potential for exploitation.
• Knowledge of industry indicators useful for identifying technology trends.
• Knowledge of external organizations and academic institutions with cyber focus (e.g., cyber curriculum/training and Research & Development).