Overview

Steampunk is seekingexperienced Cybersecurity Strategists to support our Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) clients.CISAleadsthe national effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to critical infrastructure. CISAis charged with leading the Nation's strategic and unified work to assure the securityand resilienceof the nation's cyber systems,protecting the American way of life.

As the premier Federal Civilian cybersecurity agency, CISAimpactsa broad range of operational cybersecuritychallengeswithin our Nation’s infrastructureand is working to transform how we think about and address these challenges moving forward.Our goal is to help CISA build and execute strategiestoassistCISA programsineffectively addressing cyber threats, reducing therisklandscapeandunderstandingwhere investments need to be made to enhance the security posture of our Nation’s systems and critical functions.

Contributions

As a Steampunk Cybersecurity Strategist- SME,you willhelpidentify, analyze, and evaluate complexsystems, policies, and processes that support themissionto reduce risks to thecriticalinfrastructure Americans rely on every hour of every day.In this role,we’relooking for candidates who are passionate about cybersecurity policy and operations, and who can support CISA’scybersecurity strategy functions,ensuringalignment to external and internal policy, legislative, and regulatory requirements.You will support the alignment and mapping of current and future investments to short and long-term strategy, organizational goals, andobjectivesto ensure organizational equities areproperly representedthrough high level policy/legal coordination, strategic communication, and strategic plans.

We need strategiccyberexperts who canidentify, break down, and solve problems through rigorous thinking and analysis and synthesize clear takeaways and recommendations from complex information and package them into defensible, traceable, and logical outputs.We valueteam members whocanlisten to the customer,think broadlyand innovativelyabout complex topics,and buildcoalitions to supporttransformational efforts.

Key contributions of this roleinclude:

• Advise the Government on development and implementation of cybersecurity strategic initiatives across functional and operational organizational components.

• Support rapidly developing strategies and comprehensive action plans for new or ad-hoc strategic initiatives.

• Support technical deep divesand narrative developmentfor formal inquiries, requests for information, and briefing requests from Office of Management and Budget (OMB), House and Senate Appropriations Committees, legislative affairs, and others.

• Providesupport to the Planning, Programming, Budgeting andExecution (PPBE) process, includingresource planning on Resource Allocation Plan (RAP) activities leading to Annual Operating Plan (AOP) Development.

• Assist CSD in aligning organizational investments to its strategicobjectives;leveragingoperational insight from the tactical activity level to inform and refine organizational strategy, key focus areas,objectives, and priorities.

• Conduct research and analysis of qualitative and quantitative datato uncover issues,identifytrends, andprovideinsights that drive organizationalstrategy.

• Designappropriate analysisfor diagnostics and implementation, analyzing and interpreting ambiguous and complex information and relationships.

Qualifications

• US Citizen Only

• Able to obtain andmaintaina Top-Secret clearance.

• A minimum of12 years related experience, to include five or more years in a leadership or management capacity.

• At least one related industry certification (CISSP, PMP or similar).

• Experience in executive-level decision support for the Department of Homeland Security or other federal agencies, includingorganizational change management, strategy, technical roadmaps, and AOP development and implementation.

• Experience in the cybersecurity domain, including key threats, risks, issues, and needs at the national level.

• Knowledge of cybersecurity policies, executiveordersand legislation (both foundational and recent)impactingthe changing policy landscape.

• Hybrid role; a few days a week on site in Arlington VA

“ Nice to H ave ” Experience and Skill Sets:

• Experience working directly with CISA or National level cybersecurity agencies

• Experience in group facilitation, including with groups of senior organizational leaders

• Ability to craft compelling stories and visual models to communicate insights and discoveries

• Experience with human-centered design methods and principles and/or customer experience highly desired

• Active Top-Secret Clearance

About steampunk

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology , we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company , we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com .

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.

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Job Location US-VA-McLean

Posted Date 2 months ago (2/28/2024 8:45 AM)

Job ID 4727

Clearance Requirement TS/SCI