Program Security Manager
Howard County, MD - USA
Job Summary
Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refuelling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.
At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.
Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.
GroupOverview
Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C)is responsible fordeveloping flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industrys leading signals intelligence electronic warfare and cyber in signal classification direction finding advanced geolocation techniques and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD develops special purpose radios for government customers andlicensesDF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs.
Position Summary
TheProgram Security Manageris responsible for developing coordinating and sustaining the security risk mitigation and mission assurance framework required to support sensitive operational programs. This role integrates counter-intelligence awareness operational security collection management support and planning discipline to help protect personnel capabilities partners infrastructure and activities across complex mission environments.
This position supports programs that may involve distributed teams compartmented information operational ambiguity non-standard infrastructure sensitive partnerships and time-sensitive requirements. The Program Security Manager works across program leadership operations personnel planners technical teams vendors and government stakeholders to identify risk strengthen controls support decision-making and ensure practical security oversight is built into planning and execution.
What Youll Do
- Serve as the primary security risk and mission assurance advisor for sensitive programs and operational activities.
- Assess threats vulnerabilities and operational risks related to personnel partners facilities technology supply chains access infrastructure and the information environment.
- Support planning and execution of sensitive activities by integrating counter-intelligence operational security risk mitigation and collection management considerations.
- Develop and maintain risk assessments mitigation plans decision briefs operational security products and executive-level recommendations.
- Review operational concepts plans activities and proposed partnerships to identify security risks exposure concerns compliance issues or potential adversary exploitation paths.
- Coordinate with program managers operators planners technical personnel vendors partners and government stakeholders to ensure risk mitigation measures are practical executable and aligned with mission requirements.
- Support collection management and reporting workflows including requirements tracking reporting review information management and feedback on operational relevance.
- Help identify intelligence gaps information requirements and collection priorities that support operational planning threat understanding and decision-making.
- Contribute to operational planning products such as CONOPS briefings decision papers risk matrices after-action reviews and mitigation recommendations.
- Monitor ongoing activities to ensure security controls OPSEC practices and mitigation measures remain effective as the mission environment changes.
- Support incident reviews anomaly assessments and lessons-learned processes to identify root causes potential compromise and corrective actions.
- Prepare and deliver clear concise briefings to senior leaders and stakeholders on operational risk threat posture mitigation options and mission impact.
- Help build repeatable processes for sensitive program security documentation oversight deconfliction and risk governance.
What You Bring
- 20 years of combined experience in SOF Intelligence Community Department of Defense interagency or sensitive commercial operations.
- Strong understanding of counter-intelligence operational security risk mitigation and sensitive activity support.
- Experience evaluating risk to personnel infrastructure technology access vendors partners supply chains or operational plans.
- Ability to translate complex threat security and intelligence information into practical recommendations for operators and senior leaders.
- Familiarity with intelligence cycle activities collection requirements operational reporting information management and decision-support products.
- Experience supporting operational planning mission management staff coordination or effects-based planning.
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous fast-moving and sensitive environments with limited oversight.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to prepare executive-level briefings assessments and formal recommendations.
- Sound judgment discretion and the ability to protect sensitive information while enabling operational outcomes.
- Experience developing or reviewing CONOPS OPORDs operational briefs risk assessments information papers or senior-leader decision products.
- Familiarity with FIE threat analysis pattern-of-life analysis vulnerability assessment operational deconfliction or adversary targeting methodologies.
- Experience coordinating with government customers operational units partner organizations vendors or interagency stakeholders.
- Understanding of Intelligence Community policies oversight requirements reporting standards or collection management processes.
- Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
AdditionalEligibilityQualifications
- Bachelors degree and 8 years of relevant experience; additional operational military intelligence or government experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Completion of a recognized U.S. Government or DoD source-handling certification course such as Category I HUMINT or equivalent.
- Demonstrated experience supporting sensitive operations intelligence activities national security programs or risk-managed operational environments.
- Experience producing written assessments briefings reports mitigation plans or decision-support products.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities operate with discretion and support time-sensitive requirements.
- Active TS/SCI clearance preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical plan options
- HSA/FSA accounts
- Dental and vision coverage
- 6% employer 401(k) match
- Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Generous PTO
- Life and disability insurance
- Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
- AD&D Coverage
- Pet Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Subsided gym membership / plans throughWellhub
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
- This position requires eligibility to obtain a TS/SCI clearance. U.S. citizenship is required. Candidates will be subject to a background investigation in accordance with federal requirements.
AAP/EEO Statement
Metrea Spectrum Operations LLC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
PositionTypeandExpectedHoursofWork
This is a full-time exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs.
WorkEnvironment
This job operates in an office setting.
Travel
Frequent travel to our US facilities (FL DCMDNY and CA)and overseas locations asrequired not to exceed 20% of the time.
Required Experience:
Manager
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