Mission Operations & Cyber Resilience Lead

Leidos • Reston, VA

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About The Position

The Mission Operations & Cyber Resilience Lead will lead 24x7 operations, security, vulnerability remediation, and continuous authorization for the Data Exchange Platform, a mission-critical federal health data exchange supporting military health partners. The role owns incident response and recovery and coordinates with, rather than replaces, the Government’s cybersecurity service provider.

The position is based in Reston, Virginia, with onsite work preferred. Highly qualified candidates may be considered for primarily remote work within the United States, with frequent travel to Reston. Candidates must be U.S. citizens able to obtain and maintain an ADP II clearance. Remote candidates must keep their camera on during interviews; if an offer is extended, the interviewer will take a picture for identification purposes. The posting describes this as anticipation of future work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related field, with 8–12 years of prior relevant experience.
• Ten years of experience in IT operations, cloud operations, or cybersecurity within a federal or DoD environment, including three years leading a technical team or operations function. The ten years need not all be in cybersecurity.
• Experience operating and securing at least one mission-critical production system with 24x7 availability requirements, including incident response, vulnerability remediation, change control, and authorization documentation. Monitoring-only or advisory experience does not qualify.
• Hands-on experience with AWS GovCloud or an equivalent government cloud environment, RMF, and DoD/DHA information assurance policies.
• Working knowledge of SAFe and Azure DevOps; SAFe certification is not required.
• Experience with Agile delivery, including iterative backlogs, testable acceptance criteria, and incorporating operational feedback.
• Ability to meet applicable Government work-role requirements, including a DoD 8140 qualification for the applicable work role (for example, Security+, CySA+, CISSP, or CASP+), Government-designated HIPAA compliance and information assurance training, and the applicable background investigation.
• Knowledge of the MHS/DHA environment.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain an ADP II clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead 24x7 operations, monitoring, and Tier 2/3 incident response for production data exchange services hosted in AWS GovCloud.
• Conduct root cause analysis and meet service levels.
• Manage vulnerability and patch remediation, including IAVM, STIG, and ACAS.
• Maintain artifacts needed for RMF and continuous authorization to operate.
• Implement Zero Trust and secure-cloud practices.
• Work with the development team to build security checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Run change control and maintain runbooks, operational procedures, and recovery plans.
• Coordinate with the Government and its cybersecurity service provider.
• Deliver through iterative backlogs, report operational metrics to Government leadership, and act on operational feedback.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior