Noblis

Cleared - Cybersecurity Advisor

Noblis$120K — $188K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph required.
  • US Citizenship is necessary.
  • Bachelor's degree with 6 years or Master's with 4 years experience; alternatives for extensive experience available.
  • Demonstrated experience in enhancing technical and operational effectiveness in cybersecurity.
  • Proven track record in continuous process improvement for cyber defense activities.
  • Experience in incident response leading to actionable situational awareness reports.
  • Skilled in utilizing cybersecurity tools for data synthesis and actionable insights.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and assess cyber defense capabilities to enhance operational effectiveness.
  • Lead initiatives for continuous improvement in cybersecurity processes and architectures.
  • Design incident response procedures and develop response playbooks.
  • Improve situational awareness through effective security reporting and dashboards.
  • Maximize SIEM tool effectiveness and recommend enhancements for integration.
  • Identify processes for security automation and develop corresponding workflows.
  • Coordinate and facilitate cross-functional security activities and initiatives.

Benefits

  • Health, life, and disability insurance options.
  • Retirement benefits with company contributions.
  • Paid leave and professional development opportunities.
  • Tuition assistance and work-life support programs.
  • Recognition and award programs for exceptional employee performance.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Noblis is seeking a Cleared Cybersecurity (Multiple Levels) with IC experience and ACTIVE Top Secret with SCI and Polygraph in Bethesda, MD supporting SETA contract.

The Cybersecurity SME will be responsible for and not limited to:
  • Driving technical and operational effectiveness by evaluating cyber defense capabilities, conducting control assessments, identifying gaps, establishing metrics, and aligning with organizational security objectives.
  • Leading continuous improvement initiatives through process analysis, architectural improvements, workflow optimization, and capability enhancement roadmaps.
  • Enhancing incident response capabilities by designing procedures and playbooks, developing standardized approaches for different incident types, establishing escalation paths, and coordinating cross-functional response activities.
  • Improving situational awareness through effective reporting templates, actionable security dashboards, real-time visibility mechanisms, and contextual intelligence distribution.
  • Optimizing security tool usage by maximizing SIEM effectiveness, fine-tuning correlation rules, synthesizing multi-source data, ensuring system integration, and recommending enhancements.
  • Implementing security automation by identifying suitable processes, designing workflows, developing scripts, implementing automated responses, and documenting procedures.
  • Managing the security reporting lifecycle from data collection to distribution, ensuring timely delivery, implementing feedback mechanisms, establishing archival procedures, and meeting compliance requirements.
  • Fostering an agile security approach through methodologies like security sprints, retrospectives, iterative development, and balancing agility with compliance requirements.
  • Coordinating cross-functional security activities by serving as a liaison between teams, aligning initiatives with organizational goals, facilitating knowledge sharing, and building stakeholder relationships.
  • Leading security tool integration through architecture design, API implementation, data normalization, integration testing, and documentation.
  • Driving security data analytics by developing collection strategies, implementing advanced analytics, creating visualizations, designing KPIs, and leveraging data for decision-making.
  • Managing security automation development by establishing coding standards, ensuring proper testing, implementing change management, and documenting solutions.
  • This SETA role provides technical and programmatic support to government teams by translating mission needs into technical requirements, managing those requirements, and shaping strategic program direction. Responsibilities include contract support (SOWs, RFPs, cost proposals), performance monitoring, stakeholder coordination, and communicating complex concepts through reports, meetings, and senior-level briefings. The team ensures projects stay on track by overseeing cost, schedule, and performance.


Required Qualifications

  • Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
  • US Citizenship is required.
  • Bachelor's degree + 6 years of experience OR Master's Degree + 4 years of experience OR PhD + 2 years of experience OR High School Diploma/GED + 10 years of experience OR Associate's degree + 8 years of experience
  • Experience concentrating on overall technical and operational effectiveness of capabilities.
  • Experience providing recommendation on continuous improvement of the processes and architecture supporting the overall Cyber Defense operational activities including, but not limited to, analysis, incident handling and reporting products, and the reporting lifecycle.
  • Experience providing effective incident response capabilities, usable and effective reports that address overall situational awareness.
  • Experience maximizing the use of tools to correlate information and synthesize data into usable and actionable events.
  • Experience identifying and providing an agile approach to the automation of any manual or efficient processes that exist across the cyber defense program


Desired Qualifications

  • IC experience is highly desirable.
  • Experience with having successfully demonstrated the ability to independently conduct the appropriate analysis to offer recommendations, solutions, and alternatives to resolve issues, concerns, problems, or methods.
  • Experience in establishing strong working relationships with program managers as well as organization leadership; tracking task order efforts to rapidly identify and resolve potential and new problems; and identifying and resolving administrative and contractual issues related to a support services contract.
  • Ability to solve problems in a rapidly changing environment, and interface with customers directly.
  • Strong understanding of intelligence disciplines, methodologies, and the intelligence cycle.
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment.


*Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements

Total Rewards

At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.

Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is based on full time status. For part time or on-call staff, compensation is proportionately adjusted based on hours worked. While monetary compensation is important, it's just one component of Noblis' total compensation package.

Posted Salary Range

USD $120,700.00 - USD $188,725.00 /Yr.

About Noblis

Noblis is an American not-for-profit science, technology, and strategy organization that provides technical and advisory services to federal government clients. Noblis works in the areas of national security, intelligence, transportation, healthcare, environmental sustainability, and enterprise transformation. Noblis was created in 1996 when Mitretek Systems Inc. was split into two separate entities. The other entity became known as Noblis ESI. Noblis has been recognized as one of the best places to work in the Washington, D.C. area by the Washington Business Journal and the Washingtonian.
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1996

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