Cyber Operations Planner

At phia, we hire talented and passionate people who are focused on collaborative, meaningful work, providing technical and operational subject matter expertise and support services to our partners and clients. We are seeking a Cyber Operations Planner to support a mission to reduce cyber risk by being the Nation’s flagship for cyber defense, incident response, and ensuring the resilience of nationally critical functions by delivering capabilities including technology, information, and analytics to support risk reduction. In this role you will participate in all joint operation and crisis planning activities in support of Senior Executive staff supporting Operational Planning and policy development, This job is located in Arlington, VA with remote work options potentially available.

What You'll Do

• Conduct joint operation planning that integrates the whole-of-government plans and operations.
• Monitor and review strategies, doctrine, policies, directives, and instructions from the National Security Council and make recommendations to ensure compliance and/or consideration in planning efforts.
• Develop plans with milestones and deliverables that are well integrated with interagency plans and operations.
• Determine whether campaign plans properly capture and describe an approach to implementing all guidance to senior leadership and interagency partners.
• Analyze, assess, and develop future strategies, policies, and doctrines governing cyberspace operations.
• Support interagency policy formulations on cyberspace issues, ensuring authorities, concerns, and equities are accurately represented.
• Provide concise, actionable communications to senior officials, both written and orally.
• Manage, coordinate, provide support and advise leadership on pre-event action planning/coordination/preparation, support during cyber events, and post-event activities and follow-up.
• Facilitate operational planning that aligns with policy and assist and coordinate the execution of internal processes and procedures in coordination with branches to support incident driven activities.
• Develop briefings and talking points for senior government leadership participation in internal and external events, often on short notice.
• Formal plans for cybersecurity operations that leverage the full suite of operational capabilities in support of cybersecurity resilience in the lead up to and during events of national significance. These plans are synchronized with and as appropriate, align to, agency-wide planning efforts.
• Develop and pilot new approaches to actively impede or limit the effectiveness of malicious cyber activity for the protection of critical infrastructure through improving U.S. Government-Private Sector understanding, situational awareness, information sharing, and joint preparedness.
• Identify organizational capability, policy and process gaps and development of plans to refine and improve internal operational processes and procedures.
• Develop and implement a framework for the planning, execution, and prioritization of division-wide cyber operations resources and capabilities.
• Develop a Stakeholder Engagement Plan and an After-Action Report for all planned operations and events.

Requirements

Education + Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• At least 5 years’ experience working onsite with government clients.
• Strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent communications skills.

Desired Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience working with or within DHS cyber or infrastructure security related organizations desired.
• DoD cyber Ops planning training.
• Experience coordinating with interagency partners.
• DHS EOD/Suitability

Security Clearance

• U.S. citizenship required
• Active Top Secret/SSBI; eligible for SCI

Who You Are

• A proactive problem solver that appreciates the challenges of working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Intellectually curious with a genuine desire to learn and advance your career.
• An effective communicator, both verbally and in writing.
• Customer service-oriented and mission-focused.
• Critical thinker with excellent problem-solving skills.

IMPORTANT: This position is subject to Executive Order 14042 and the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force Guidance requiring covered employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination prior to commencing employment. Prospective or new employees who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons or a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation. This request must be approved prior to the start of employment to the extent a reasonable accommodation is available that does not pose an undue hardship on phia or a direct threat to the candidate or phia’s employees.

Benefits

Who We Are

phia LLC ("phia") is a Northern Virginia-based, 8a certified small business established in 2011 with a focus in Cyber Intelligence, Cyber Security/Defense, Intrusion Analysis & Incident Response, Cyber Architecture & Capability Analysis, Cyber Policy & Strategy, and Information Assurance/Security. we proudly support various agencies and offices within the Department of Defense (DoD), Federal government, and private/commercial entities.

phia values work-life balance and offers the following benefits to full-time employees:

• Comprehensive medical insurance to include dental and vision
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability
• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match
• Tuition and Professional Development Assistance
• Flex Spending Accounts (FSA)

phia does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.