Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst - Policy and Strategy

Company Overview:

ANSER enhances national and homeland security by strengthening public institutions. We provide thought leadership for complex issues through independent analysis, and we deliver practical, useful solutions. ANSER values collaboration, integrity, and initiative and we are client focused in all that we do. Because we were established for the purpose of public service and not for profit, we measure our success in the impact of our service.

Position Overview:

ANSER is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to support a federal program in cybersecurity planning, analysis, development, and promulgation of cybersecurity strategies. In this role you will support various components of the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Office (CIO) including policy and strategy development, implementation, integration, cyber hygiene, workforce planning and strategy, international cybersecurity programs, and risk management oversight.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Assist in cybersecurity planning, analysis, development, and promulgation of cybersecurity strategies.
• Support processes to monitoring and assess implementation according to DoD CIO priorities, goals, objectives, and milestones.
• Provide expertise to inform leadership in making strategic and management decisions.
• Support the development of agreements, directives, instructions, guidance and information papers.
• Establish and satisfy complex enterprise-wide cybersecurity requirements based upon the analysis of user, policy, regulatory, and resource demands.
• Assist in tracking the DoD Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) Program policy development.
• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of strategy, doctrine, standards, policies, and procedures.
• Provide cybersecurity expertise during policy, initiative, manual, and instruction development to identify vulnerabilities and enhance security engineering and cyber defense across DoD networks and capabilities.
• Advise and assist during collaborations with various agencies during coordinated policy development and international CS/DCO engagements.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise to research evolving CS management methodologies.
• Support ongoing and future enhancements of a seamless integrated enterprise-wide decision structure for cybersecurity risk management (RMF) that aligns to guidance and policy.
• Create and maintain capability deployment concept of operations and strategy document outlining capabilities, gaps, deployment timelines, roadmaps, and measures of effectiveness and performance.
• Provide support to the DCIO-CS for the development and promulgation of cybersecurity requirements for cloud capabilities.

Required Qualifications:

• Possess an active TS/SCI security clearance.
• 12+ years of general work experience and a Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity related field, Program Management or other similarly related field.
  • Will consider candidates with a Bachelor's degree with an additional two (2) years of general experience for a total of 14 year's experience.
  • Will consider candidates with no degree with an additional six (6) years of general experience for a total of 18 year's experience.
• Relevant experience providing government or defense agencies decision support, analysis, technical program support related to cybersecurity and/or systems engineeri