OPSEC Planner - Journeyman

Appcast

$74K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
  • Active Top Secret SCI clearance required.

Responsibilities

  • Apply established OPSEC methodologies to assess risk and protective measures for J39 priorities.
  • Conduct OPSEC assessments to evaluate vulnerabilities and provide risk-informed recommendations.
  • Maintain balance between operational needs and protective measures in information environments.
  • Analyze adversary capabilities to understand detection and targeting risks to friendly operations.
  • Recommend countermeasures and shape OPSEC inputs for planning and execution documents.
  • Support OPSEC integration in wargames and contingency planning through risk assessments.
  • Develop OPSEC training and awareness activities to enhance operational discipline.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules.
  • 401(k) plan with employer match.
  • Life insurance coverage.
  • Holidays to fit personal lifestyle.
Full Job Description

Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented OPSEC Planner - Journeyman to join our team! In this role you will get to support the integration of Operations Security (OPSEC) within Operations in the Information Environment (OIE) to help protect friendly intentions, capabilities, and vulnerabilities while enabling effective informationrelated activities.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Applies established OPSEC methodologies to ensure that risk, exposure, and protective measures are considered throughout planning, execution, and assessment in support of J39 priorities across competition, crisis, and conflict. Identifies and helps manage critical information (CI) by analyzing how friendly actions, messaging, and behaviors across the physical, informational, and human domains could create risk or reveal operational insights to adversaries.

  • Conducts OPSEC assessments to evaluate vulnerabilities associated with planned or ongoing activities and contributes riskinformed recommendations that support commander and planner decisionmaking. Coordinates with OIE planners, MISO/PSYOP teams, MILDEC planners, EMSO elements, cyber operators, and other Information Forces to ensure OPSEC considerations are aligned with influence, deception, and multidomain operational effects.

  • Works to maintain balance between protective measures and the operational need for messaging, visibility, and action in the information environment.

  • Analyzes adversary intelligence collection capabilities, technical sensors, and information exploitation methods to understand how opponents could detect, interpret, or target friendly posture and activities.

  • Uses this understanding to recommend countermeasures, shaping OPSEC inputs to planning documents, execution synchronizations, and assessment updates.

  • Supports the incorporation of OPSEC into wargames, rehearsals, exercises, and contingency planning by identifying likely exposure points, validating assumptions, and contributing to risk assessments.

  • Assists in developing OPSEC training, briefings, and awareness activities that reinforce operational discipline and riskinformed decisionmaking across staff sections and mission partners.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

  • Bachelors degree and 5+ years experience. Years of comparable experience can be used in lieu of degree. (HS diploma 8+ years, Associates 6+ years, Masters 3+ years)
  • Must have a current/active TS/SCI clearance or higher.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Salary Range: $74,800.00 - $130,900.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.

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