Job#: 3057840 Job Description:Director of Cyber Security
Location: Arlington, VA (Hybrid)
Role Overview
This senior leadership role focuses on guiding cyber operations programs and advancing strategic opportunities. The selected leader will engage senior stakeholders, identify operational challenges, and assist partners in understanding how diverse defense capabilities connect to achieve mission outcomes. Managing a team of mission operations and solutions experts, this position translates technical needs into actionable recommendations to improve operational effectiveness.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and sustain relationships with senior leaders and mission stakeholders to discuss operational priorities and capability gaps.
- Assist partners in understanding the relationships among defense functions, teams, services, and technologies to improve integration.
- Translate complex discussion points into clearly defined problems, priorities, and opportunities for operational improvement.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment around recommended approaches, evaluating tradeoffs and resolving competing priorities.
- Lead a team of mission operations and solution subject matter experts, setting priorities and developing talent.
- Guide solution development by translating operational insights into technical recommendations in partnership with engineering specialists.
- Develop concepts of operations, capability roadmaps, requirements, staffing recommendations, and implementation priorities.
- Address adoption barriers and dependencies to move approved initiatives into active execution.
- Contribute operational expertise to strategic pursuits, including discovery, opportunity assessment, and executive presentations.
- Lead briefings and strategic workshops to make complex technical issues understandable for diverse audiences.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical or management discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Experience: Progressive leadership experience in large-scale operations, with a practical foundation in security operations center management, incident response, or threat intelligence.
Technical Skills: Deep understanding of defense capabilities, including detection and response, threat hunting, vulnerability management, detection engineering, and automation tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Leadership experience supporting federal civilian cybersecurity initiatives or large public sector organizations.
- Experience modernizing or scaling security operations centers and integrated defense capabilities.
- Familiarity with analytics, automation, and operational technology security.
- Relevant professional certifications or advanced leadership education.
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