At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Junior Exercise Planner you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Support the National Cybersecurity Exercise Program (NCEP) efforts to enhance the security and resilience of the nation's critical infrastructure. This expanding program is part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Exercises sub-division responsible for developing, designing, conducting, and analyzing cyber exercises and workshops at the state, federal, regional, private sector, and international level. The exercises range from tabletop exercises intended to identify policy and process issues under a variety of authorities, to functional exercises with public and private sectors to test command and control procedures, response mechanisms, and cross-sector coordination.

CANDIDATE MUST BE LOCAL TO OFFICE. SOME TELECOMMUTING ALLOWED

HOW AN EXERCISE PLANNER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

Support federal client and exercise contract leads to plan, coordinate, and execute cyber exercises according to the DHS Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) principles. This includes identifying objectives, developing scenarios, designing exercise construct, supporting the exercise conduct, and after action report development.

Drafts and maintains exercise life cycle documents to include those needed from early concept and planning meetings through execution and after-action reporting. These documents include active scenarios developed to meet exercise outcomes and test cyber incident response plans.

Travel required: Support exercise executions at locations around the country and potentially internationally.

Develops after action reports and improvement plans which incorporate recommendations and modifications to cybersecurity plans, processes, and protocols.

Assists with coordination and facilitation of requirement gathering sessions and works with business owners and government stakeholders to define and document user cybersecurity process evaluations

Researches, assesses, and analyzes customer needs and requirements.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Customer service orientation, focus, and ability to multitask

Ability to respond to urgent and sensitive requests for information in a timely manner and attention to detail

Strong and demonstrated teamwork abilities

Flexible, self-motivated, and able to adapt to changing circumstances

A basic understanding of the Cybersecurity field

Familiarity with exercise development, design, conduct, and analysis

Familiarity with Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Methodology

• Location: Hybrid
• Travel required