Security Training and Awareness Specialist Security Clearance

Position: Security Training and Awareness Specialist with Security Clearance
About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure. Program Overview About

The Role
** Position is Contingent Upon Award
** Peraton seeks innovative professionals who thrive in mission-critical environments and are passionate about protecting our national critical infrastructure. This is your chance to make an impact on one of the nation's vital organizations, working alongside leaders in cybersecurity engineering, operations, forensics, threat analysis, data science, and systems integration. Join Peraton in supporting a large critical infrastructure operator to defend its corporate and operations networks from nation-state attacks, ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its systems and operations infrastructure, and comply with federal and industry cybersecurity regulation.

As a security training and awareness specialist working with a state-of-the-art 24-hour Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC), you will be responsible for working with the company's corporate cybersecurity training organization and its current phishing campaign vendor to develop, implement, and manage the organization's security training and awareness program by contributing key learnings observed from the CSOC perspective. This role ensures employees understand cybersecurity risks, follow security best practices, and actively contribute to protecting organizational systems and data.

Primary Responsibilities:

The Security Training and Awareness Specialist will be responsible for:
* Work with the company's corporate cybersecurity training organization to design, implement, modify, and maintain a comprehensive cybersecurity training and awareness program for employees and contractors

* Contribute to the company's cybersecurity training and awareness program and training material by providing insights into cybersecurity incidents reported to our detected by the CSOC
* Assist with the development of role-based security training for technical and non-technical staff

* Assist with the creation and delivery of engaging awareness content (training modules, briefings, newsletters, campaigns) including recommending development of tests and visual aids, criteria for evaluating effectiveness of cybersecurity training activities

* Work with the company's current phishing campaign vendor to conduct and oversee phishing simulations and social engineering awareness activities and analyze cybersecurity training metrics and user behavior to measure program effectiveness and make recommendations for improvements

* Collaborate with cybersecurity, IT, HR, and compliance teams to align training with organizational risk

* Work with the company's corporate cybersecurity training organization to ensure training content aligns with applicable security frameworks, policies, and regulations

* Support audit and compliance requirements by maintaining relevant records and evidence

* Prepare reports and brief CSOC Manager, internal stakeholders on CSOC findings related to employee caused cybersecurity incidents or vulnerabilities

Additional Responsibilities:
* Contribute to the development and periodic review of cybersecurity training policies, standards, and guidelines

* Support onboarding and offboarding processes with cybersecurity training content

* Participate in incident response activities by assisting with user communications and post-incident lessons learned

* Collaborate with HR and Legal on acceptable use and code-of-conduct training content

* Support third-party or contractor security awareness requirements as needed

* Assist with tabletop exercises or security drills from an awareness and communications perspective

* Keep abreast of emerging cybersecurity threats and recommend adjustments to training content accordingly

* Provide security awareness guidance to project teams and business units

* Serve as a subject matter resource during audits, assessments, or compliance reviews

* Assist in development and delivery of cybersecurity training workshops to promote awareness of cybersecurity processes and internal controls and to discuss changes in policies with the company's cybersecurity managers that will improve employee awareness and performance

* Keep abreast of cybersecurity training and development research such…