Cyber Threat Intelligence Exercise Lead - By Light Professional IT Services

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Exercise Lead will provide direct support to the Plans and Exercise Lead for the Joint Cyber Training Enterprise, one of the largest leading cyber training and operations platforms in the world. The incumbent will support project teams and provide translation and operationalization of CMF input related to specific cyber threats and intelligence packages. The lead will facilitate and identify, characterize, curate, and deliver intelligence products necessary for the development of threat emulation playbooks and associated training malware. This position requires both leadership and management experience, as well as excellent presentational skills.

Position location is Annapolis Junction, MD and full time on-site.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence design, planning, and delivery.
  Provide customer facing support and able to work across all verticals to include: white cell, red cell, exercise control, blue build teams and develop visual products for small to large multi-national cyber exercise  
• Experience working with the Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC) is a major plus
• Lead will also be responsible to support integration and enable the access of intelligence products by all-source analysis within unclassified and classified ranges.
• Lead will assist content developers and managers in the configuration and population of intel-related applications (e.g., OpenCTI, VECTR, ATT&CK Navigator).
• Generation of artifact data (i.e. sensitive files) for hosting on key cyber terrain to meet OPFOR collection and data exfiltration objectives.
• Overseeing the development, testing, documentation, fielding and support of complex cyber and IT training systems and equipment
• Ensuring the highest quality of task completion, meeting contractual performance criteria and deliverables in accordance with the contract

Required Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required in intelligence, information systems, English, or related management  and advanced degree/studies preferred, or completion of a military technical training school such as CTIA, FORGE, DoD red team, or exploit analyst
  5 years of Department of Defense leadership experience can be substituted for degree.
  A minimum of 5 years of experience managing complex, projects and programs for the federal government.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Didactic public speaker
• Ability to build basic to intermediate graphics to illustrate intent and brief to general officer level
• Some experience staffing and managing teams that include both workforce on-site and remote
• Some experience with organizing and coordinating the planning and production of client deliveries.
• Experience with applying quality assurance measures to improve contract performance.
• Some experience with Agile based development approaches  
• Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to establish an effective working relationship with senior-level customers, technical staff, managers and peers.
• Exceptional communication and presentation abilities with a demonstrated capability to coordinate and align efforts between government customers, senior executives, subcontractors and team members.
• Must be able to understand multi-level customer/user expectations and concerns, and to assure customer(s) that the program is being managed effectively.

Preferred Experience/Qualifications

• Certified Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA) HIGHLY DESIRED

Special Requirements/Security Clearance

• TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance

By Light provides a broad range of hardware, software, engineering, and IT integration services. Headquartered in Tysons, VA, we support defense, civilian, commercial, and health IT customers worldwide. We offer an excellent benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid time off, paid holidays, and 401(k) match.