Cybersecurity Innovation Lead
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Overview
Schedule
Full-time
Education
Engineering (PE)
Career level
Senior-level
Remote
On-site
Compensation
$128,000-$155,000/year
Job Description
Cybersecurity Innovation LeadLocation: Norfolk, VA (On-site at NATO HQ SACT)Employment Type: Full-time, contractor support (contingent upon contract award & customer approval)Security Clearance: Active/eligible for NATO or National SECRET (or higher)Openings: 1 openingTarget Base Salary Range: $128,000 - $155,000Travel: Up to 20 days/year (generally within NATO boundaries).Role OverviewSupport NATO Cyberspace capability development by identifying, developing, and validating cyberspace operations concepts aligned to NATO operational needs and ACT guidance. You will lead hands-on concept engineering and work with multinational stakeholders to mature concepts through experimentation and implementation planning.Key Responsibilities
- Identify cyberspace operations capability concepts based on NATO needs and ACT direction.
- Conduct research, collect inputs, draft concepts, and manage reviews/approvals.
- Build and maintain Communities of Interest across NATO, Nations, industry, and academia.
- Contribute to experimentation and validation (feasibility analysis, experiment design, assessments).
- Produce engineering artifacts across the capability lifecycle (requirements, architectures, IERs, interoperability).
- Support additional warfare development activities (studies, foresight, technical and operational analyses).
- Plan and participate in workshops and conferences (travel as required).
- Master’s degree in engineering/systems engineering/computer science (or bachelor’s + 5 years recent hands-on systems engineering in a military context).
- Recent hands-on authorship of cyberspace concepts/specifications/architectures/designs (3+ within the last 5 years).
- Post-degree CIS security and cyber defence credentialing (e.g., CISSP, GIAC, ISACA CISM).
- Hands-on architecture drafting experience (NAF, TOGAF, or equivalent).
- Experience planning and executing stakeholder workshops with government/industry/academia.
- Valid NATO nation passport with no travel restrictions to NATO nations.
- Citizen of a NATO member nation; active NATO or National SECRET (or higher) clearance; English proficiency.
- Experience with Cyberspace Situational Awareness (CySA), decision support, or Cyberspace C2 (CyC2) concepts.
- Experience with Analyses of Alternatives and capability requirements across DOTMLPFI.
- Prior NATO or multinational defence environment experience.
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