Cybersecurity Manager

Cybersecurity Manager

Location:

Arlington, VA

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Securi Gence delivers essential technology services supporting critical national security missions. We are seeking an Cybersecurity Manager to lead and strengthen our security posture. This role requires a unique blend of strategic vision, technical expertise, and operational leadership to ensure our sensitive systems and data governance, confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

• Develop and evolve a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that aligns with DARPA's mission, technological landscape, and evolving threat environment. Utilize your experience in mapping critical information systems to business objectives and ensuring security through process resiliency.
• Lead the identification, assessment, and mitigation of cybersecurity risks, balancing operational needs with security requirements, drawing on your experience conducting site assessments, and developing logistical plans.
• Establish and maintain security policies, procedures, and standards that meet or exceed DoD and industry best practices, leveraging your expertise in developing and enforcing cybersecurity policies for performers and military organizations.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant security regulations, including NIST RMF, DoD STIGs, and other applicable mandates, building on your experience leading successful CCRIs and achieving high compliance scores in cybersecurity inspections.
• Promote a strong security culture within Securi Gence and DARPA, fostering awareness and proactive engagement through training programs and knowledge sharing, similar to your experience implementing volunteer training programs.
• Lead and mentor a team of cybersecurity professionals, foster a high-performing and collaborative environment, drawing on your extensive experience managing teams of contractors, civilians, and military personnel in various capacities.
• Develop and implement an effective incident response plan, ensuring swift detection, containment, and remediation of security incidents, utilizing your experience in resolving critical security incidents and minimizing operational disruptions.
• Establish a robust vulnerability management program that exceeds the DOD mandate of regular scanning, assessing, and remedying vulnerabilities. Leverage your experience in managing cybersecurity vulnerabilities and implementing security controls.
• Oversee 24/7 security operations, including continuous monitoring of networks, systems, and data for anomalies and potential threats, building on your experience managing security operations centers and monitoring critical network infrastructure.
• Stay abreast of emerging threats and vulnerabilities, adapt security strategies and controls as needed, and draw on your experience in cyberspace planning and conducting threat analysis.
• Design and implement secure architectures for systems, networks, and applications, incorporating defense-in-depth strategies, utilizing your experience in engineering and stabilizing enterprise systems through virtualization and tools convergence.
• Conduct thorough security assessments and audits, identifying weaknesses and recommending corrective actions, leveraging your experience in conducting site assessments and evaluating technologies to support secure IT architectures.
• Evaluate, select, and implement security tools and technologies that enhance Securi Gence's security posture, drawing on your experience with a wide range of security tools and technologies (e.g., ACAS, AD, DNS, HBSS, ITSM, OCSP, OS Imaging, SCCM, SCOM, SIEM).
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security into the development lifecycle of new products and services, utilizing your experience in implementing Scrum methodologies to improve system reporting and vulnerability compliance.
• Provide comprehensive oversight for Assessment & Authorization (A&A) activities, ensuring all systems meet stringent security and compliance standards.
• Direct and manage Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), leading the active defense of networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Manage tasks performed under this contract shall be the primary point of contact for security and contract issues.
• Lead, mentor, and manage a multidisciplinary cybersecurity workforce, including Information Systems Security Managers (ISSMs), Information Systems Security Officers (ISSOs), Security Control Assessors (SCAs), and Security Operations Center (SOC) personnel, to foster a high-performing and collaborative environment.
• Responsible for ensuring that practical and…