OPSEC Planner - Journeyman

Appcast

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent experience in lieu of degree (8+ years with HS diploma, 6+ years with Associate's, 3+ years with Master's).
  • Current/active TS/SCI security clearance is mandatory.

Responsibilities

  • Apply established OPSEC methodologies to assess risk and protective measures throughout planning and execution.
  • Conduct OPSEC assessments and provide risk-informed recommendations for decision-making.
  • Maintain a balance between protective measures and operational needs for messaging in the information environment.
  • Analyze adversary capabilities to identify risk exposure related to friendly operations.
  • Recommend countermeasures and shape OPSEC inputs for planning documents and assessments.
  • Support OPSEC integration into wargames, rehearsals, and contingency planning.
  • Develop OPSEC training and briefings to promote operational discipline and risk-informed decision-making.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Paid time off and flexible work schedules.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Life insurance coverage.
  • Holidays to support work-life balance.
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 information‑related 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 risk‑informed recommendations that support commander and planner decision‑making. 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 multi‑domain 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 risk‑informed decision‑making 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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