Cleared - Cybersecurity Advisor

Overview

Noblis and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis MSD, tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an independent and objective environment to deliver lasting impact on federal missions.

• Evaluate cyber defense capabilities, conduct control assessments, identify gaps, establish metrics, and align with organizational security objectives.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives through process analysis, architectural improvements, workflow optimization, and capability enhancement roadmaps.
• Enhance incident response capabilities by designing procedures and playbooks, developing standardized approaches for different incident types, establishing escalation paths, and coordinating cross‑functional response activities.
• Improve situational awareness through effective reporting templates, actionable security dashboards, real‑time visibility mechanisms, and contextual intelligence distribution.
• Optimize security tool usage by maximizing SIEM effectiveness, fine‑tuning correlation rules, synthesizing multi‑source data, ensuring system integration, and recommending enhancements.
• Implement security automation by identifying suitable processes, designing workflows, developing scripts, implementing automated responses, and documenting procedures.
• Manage the security reporting lifecycle from data collection to distribution, ensuring timely delivery, implementing feedback mechanisms, establishing archival procedures, and meeting compliance requirements.
• Foster an agile security approach through methodologies such as security sprints, retrospectives, iterative development, and balancing agility with compliance requirements.
• Coordinate cross‑functional security activities as a liaison between teams, aligning initiatives with organizational goals, facilitating knowledge sharing, and building stakeholder relationships.
• Lead security tool integration through architecture design, API implementation, data normalization, integration testing, and documentation.
• Drive security data analytics by developing collection strategies, implementing advanced analytics, creating visualizations, designing KPIs, and leveraging data for decision‑making.
• Manage security automation development by establishing coding standards, ensuring proper testing, implementing change management, and documenting solutions.
• Provide technical and programmatic support to government teams by translating mission needs into technical requirements, managing those requirements, and shaping strategic program direction. Responsibilities include contract support (SOWs, RFPs, cost proposals), performance monitoring, stakeholder coordination, and communicating complex concepts through reports, meetings, and senior‑level briefings. The team ensures projects stay on track by overseeing cost, schedule, and performance.

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree with 6 years of experience or Master’s degree with 4 years of experience or PhD with 2 years of experience or High School Diploma/GED with 10 years of experience or Associate's degree with 8 years of experience.
• Experience focused on overall technical and operational effectiveness of capabilities.
• Experience recommending continuous improvement of processes and architecture supporting overall cyber defense operational activities, including analysis, incident handling, and reporting products.
• Experience providing effective incident response capabilities and usable reports that address overall situational awareness.
• Experience maximizing the use of tools to correlate information and synthesize data into actionable events.
• Experience identifying and providing an agile approach to automation of manual or inefficient processes across the cyber defense program.

• IC experience is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to independently conduct appropriate analysis and offer recommendations, solutions, and alternatives to resolve issues, concerns, and problems.
• Experience…