Cryptologic Operations Advisor

Description

Are you ready to make an impact and join a small, tight-knit group of professionals? We’re looking for innovative minds with experience in Space operations to help the nation’s youngest military service keep our space capabilities the premier force in the world.

The Leidos National Security Sector and the Mission Engineering, Integration, & Operations Business Area is currently seeking expertise to join the Space Force Cryptologic Office (SFCO) at Ft Meade, MD.

As a Cryptologic Operations Advisor, you will be a liaison to the USSF Service Cryptologic Component (SCC) and the National Security Agency (NSA) for all USSF cryptologic mission operations. The advisor will engage with a complex, diverse association of operational and technical experts across the Intelligence Community (IC) to ensure USSF cryptologic enterprise elements are prepared to support space and counter‑space requirements.

Opportunities for technical skill development, career advancement and internal position mobility are available.

• Develop, sustain, and enhance space capabilities to defend national interests from attack
• Create effects in the space domain to achieve Service, Combatant Command, and national objectives inclusive of but limited to space control, force enhancement, and space force support operations using established and newly developed tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Represent USSF equities in multiple action‑officer level, as well as high level, forums
• Possess excellent communication skills (oral and written)
• Demonstrate a problem‑solving mindset
• Work autonomously and collaborate with groups to actualize customer goals and expectations in a fast‑paced environment while utilizing critical thinking and innovation

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years of experience OR a Masters and 10 years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Experience with technical management or technical oversight
• Experience with Cryptologic and/or Space Operations (i.e. tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination (TCPED))
• ELINT, COMINT, Analysis and Reporting (Fusion) experience
• Must have demonstrated National Intelligence experience
• Experience with training and force development/management
• Extensive familiarity with applicable Space, Military, and NSA Policy and Guidance, Operations, and Staff Functions
• Must have a current TS/SCI and possess a current Polygraph

• Recent Space Force Intelligence related assignment
• 20+ Years of Intelligence related experience to include Cryptologic, SIGINT, COMINT, ELINT and Space Intelligence

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

$89,700.00 - $

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.