SAIC
SAIC

Network Security Operations Manager

Springfield, VA, US • Posted 4 hours ago • Updated 4 hours ago
Full Time
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Skills

  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Servers
  • Firewall
  • Data Security
  • Bridging
  • Storage
  • Writing
  • Access Control
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Leadership
  • FIPS
  • Incident Management
  • Cyber Security
  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics
  • Supervision
  • CISSP
  • Security Management
  • CISM
  • Information Security
  • CISA
  • Auditing
  • Network
  • Encryption
  • MSS
  • Algorithms
  • RSA
  • SAP ERP
  • Cryptography
  • Network Security
  • Data Link Layer
  • IPsec
  • Network Layer
  • TLS
  • Operations Management
  • Management
  • Security Clearance
  • DOS
  • IT Security
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Collaboration
  • Communications Security
  • Information Technology
  • Systems Engineering
  • FOCUS

Summary

Job ID: 2610164

Location: Springfield, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-03-11

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Network Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: Top_Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC has an opening for a Network Security Operations Manager to support a Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Technology (DT) Bureau. DT provides enterprise architecture design, engineering, operations and maintenance support services for desktops, servers, networks, firewalls, and enterprise applications across the Department.

The Network Security Operations Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for the end-to-end governance and technical execution of network security and data protection strategies. This position bridges the gap between high-level policy and technical implementation, ensuring that cybersecurity, network security, and compliance frameworks work in harmony to protect the organization's most sensitive data. Travel is 5%.

Description of Duties:
  • Infrastructure Oversight: Directing the deployment and maintenance of next generation network security solutions, ensuring secure data-in-motion across all enterprise sites.
  • Network Security Strategy: Owning the security lifecycle (generation, storage, rotation, and destruction) and managing the network security infrastructure.
  • Policy & Standards Development: Writing and enforcing organizational cybersecurity and network security policies, addressing Post Quantum Encryption, algorithm selection (AES-256, RSA), and Zero Trust access controls.
  • Audit & Compliance Leadership: Acting as the primary lead for security audits (CISA, NIST, FIPS 140-2/3), ensuring all cybersecurity/network security activities are logged, traceable, and legally compliant.
  • Incident Management: Leading the response to cybersecurity incidents.


Qualifications

Required Education/Experience:
  • Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or Mathematics and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience.
  • 7+ years in IT security, with at least 3 years in a supervisory or management capacity focused on cryptography or network security.
  • Certifications:
    • CISSP (Security Management)
    • CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
    • CISA (Audit focus)
  • Network Cryptography: Deep expertise in MACsec, IPsec, and the performance impacts of encryption (MTU/MSS fragmentation) on high-speed circuits.
  • Deep knowledge of symmetric/asymmetric algorithms (AES-256, RSA, ECC) and the ability to transition architecture toward Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
  • Network Security Architecture: Expert-level understanding of securing data-in-motion via MACsec (Layer 2), IPsec (Layer 3), and TLS 1.3.
  • Operations Management: Proven ability to manage a team of engineers and admins while balancing uptime requirements with rigorous security protocols.


Clearance Requirement:
  • ship.
  • TOP SECRET with the ability to obtain SCI.


Desired Experience/Skills/Attributes:
  • Familiarity with DoS environment (data and voice networks, IT security systems, policies and procedures), Foreign Affairs Handbooks (FAHs), Foreign Affairs Manuals (FAMs) preferred.
  • Interpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate effectively, self-awareness, and excellent written and oral communications.
  • Previous COMSEC experience



Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 10111346
  • Position Id: 2610164
  • Posted 4 hours ago

Company Info

About SAIC

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500 mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets include secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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