Senior Cybersecurity Manager Herndon, VA Posted

Akima Global Technology (AGT) is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Manager to lead enterprise cybersecurity operations, incident response, and compliance activities across mission-critical information technology environments. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems supporting TSA’s mission. The role integrates cybersecurity across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, aligning with DHS, TSA, FISMA, and NIST requirements while enabling continuous service improvement and operational excellence.

• Lead and oversee enterprise cybersecurity operations, ensuring continuous monitoring, detection, and response across all IT environments.
• Direct incident response activities including triage, investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis.
• Oversee cybersecurity endpoint protection platforms, vulnerability management systems, and monitoring technologies.
• Coordinate cross-functional response efforts with network, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure integrated service delivery.
• Manage the cybersecurity ticketing lifecycle, ensuring timely escalation, tracking, and resolution of incidents and service requests.
• Develop and maintain incident response plans, playbooks, and after-action reports to improve future response effectiveness.
• Oversee POA&M lifecycle management, including identification, tracking, remediation, and closure of vulnerabilities and findings.
• Support DHS FISMA compliance activities, including monthly scorecard reporting, vulnerability management, and audit readiness.
• Ensure compliance with DHS Information Security Vulnerability Management (ISVM) directives and CISA KEV catalog requirements.
• Provide cybersecurity support across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring secure configurations and operational resilience.
• Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide visibility into cybersecurity posture, incident trends, and performance metrics.
• Ensure all cybersecurity activities are documented, auditable, and aligned with TSA and DHS policies.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance cybersecurity operations, automation, and threat detection capabilities.
• Integrate threat intelligence, vulnerability data, and monitoring tools to enhance proactive threat detection and response capabilities.
• Develop and execute workforce strategy, including staffing, training, and cross-functional alignment to ensure resilient, scalable operations.
• Ensure operational resilience through cross-trained teams, standardized processes, and continuity planning to maintain mission performance during workforce fluctuations or high-tempo operations.
• Own SLA performance across service areas, driving accountability, performance optimization, and continuous service improvement.

• Ability to obtain and maintain DHS suitability and any required clearances.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of cybersecurity experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles supporting enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading incident response and cybersecurity operations in federal or regulated environments.
• Proven experience leading and executing cybersecurity actions.
• Strong knowledge of FISMA, NIST 800-53, DHS policies, and federal cybersecurity compliance frameworks.
• Experience managing POA&M processes, vulnerability remediation, and ISVM compliance activities.
• Experience supporting cloud security in AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Experience integrating cybersecurity operations across network, infrastructure, and application domains.

• Prior experience supporting TSA programs or DHS operational components.
• Master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related engineering field.
• CISSP, CISM, CASP+, CEH, or equivalent IAM Level III certification.
• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture implementation and enforcement.
• Familiarity with CISA KEV catalog and advanced vulnerability management practices.
• Experience supporting large-scale…