Policy Team Lead

Peraton is currently seeking to hire an experienced Policy Team Lead to become part of our Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program.

Location: Rosslyn, VA

Peraton's DSCM program encompasses technical, engineering, data analytics, cyber security, management, operational, logistical, and administrative support to aid and advise DoS Cyber & Technology Security (CTS) Directorate. This includes protecting a global cyber infrastructure comprising networks, systems, information, and mobile devices all while identifying and responding to cyber risks and threats. Those supporting Peraton's DSCM program strive to leverage their expert knowledge and propose creative solutions to real-world cybersecurity challenges.

What you'll do:

Lead the planning, development, and implementation of policies, standards, and procedures associated with cyber security and the evolving technological landscape.
• Determine the impact of changes to the Department's IT and OT environments, to include use of new and emerging technology, software, hardware, and firmware; develop technical rationale for policy and standard changes.
• Produce weekly, monthly, and quarterly updates and deliverables to the customer detailing the team's work efforts, accomplishments, and gaps.
• Communicate the teams' progress, challenges, and achievements to leadership
• Distribute workload across the team and develop program plans to meet project deadlines; address obstacles promptly to ensure continuous delivery of work products
• Identify and diagnose operational issues and implement design alterations based on policy trends and reports.
• Facilitate collaboration by ensuring effective communication among team members both within CTS and in other offices and bureaus
• Participate in intra-agency policy working groups.
• Innovate processes for policy task automation, support user related system development life cycle activities, to include requirements definition, functional design, and user acceptance testing.
• Review the current organization of the ET Division for opportunities for collaboration on specific priority objectives. Create a growth plan with the Customer to determine areas that require additional integration.
• Understand and unify the non-Peraton contract organizations technical capabilities into alignment for the overall Office.

The following are the current technical needs that require additional lift:

• Work with the ETD CSS Liaisons to improve visioning on their mission and activities understanding the trade space of non-mapped PWS requirements or new mission directives.
• Work with external organizations to collect requirements that ET can fill to better focus prioritization of work activities.
• Additional planning advice to the IET, to migrate the organization to a focused security and technology innovation center.
• Develop an understanding of the current stakeholder lists necessary across State and supporting offices including DT, CTS CTO, and CIO.
• Make recommendations for, and coordinate clearances of unattended IT operations at Critical Threat posts.
• Develop a quarterly report of emerging technical trends that DS will need to mature; similarly, develop a quarterly report for FTD on cyber/communications controls that impact security of Posts.

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Required:

• A minimum of 12 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to obtain/maintain prior to start date or within six months of start date: ONE of the following certifications:
  • CASP+ CE, CCISO, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CCNP Security, CEH, CFR, CISA, CISM, CISSP (or Associate), CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP, Cloud+, CySA+, GCED, GCIA, GCIH, GICSP, GSLC, SCYBER.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, and use of Microsoft office tools for project management.
• Able to lead team meetings, setting priorities, and making schedules.
• Experience monitoring and responding to inquiries on cyber policies and standards.
• Demonstrated technical and administrative support of cyber security policy.
• Experience examining requests and making recommendations for the development/approval of waivers/exceptions to policies and standards.
• Familiar with NIST 800-53 Risk Management Framework.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• The ability to obtain an interim Secret clearance before start date.
• Ability to obtain a final Top-Secret security clearance.

Strongly Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree and minimum of 14 years' experience required or a Master's degree and 7 years of experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.