Cyber Operations SME (On-site Fort Meade, MD)

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Deloitte is seeking an experienced Cyber Operations SME, Cyber Defense and Resilience to help federal organizations assess and advance innovative, next-generation solutions for all-domain cyber operations. In this role, you will support cyber transformation initiatives that strengthen mission readiness across operations, talent, training, and technology. You will work with mission stakeholders to turn complex operational needs into scalable implementation plans and capabilities.

Work You'll Do

As a Cyber Operations SME, Cyber Defense and Resilience, on the Cyber Defense and Resilience team, you will be responsible for:

• Establish implementation roadmaps for cyber transformation programs, including approaches that increase command agility and scalability.

• Develop implementation plans and support models for the Cyber Innovation Warfare Center.

• Assess innovative, next-generation cyber solutions that strengthen all-domain operations and mission readiness.

• Modernize cyber career models across the services, including recruiting, retention, training, and assignment practices.

• Define cyber-training standards and technology roadmaps; help enable an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cyber warfighting ecosystem to accelerate Cyber Mission Force readiness.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product

• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships

• Ability to lead projects or workstreams

• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor

• Ability to meet deadlines

• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Defense & Resilience offering assists clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. Helps manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provides rapid crisis and cyber incident response, ensuring clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of professional experience, including 8+ years of experience across cyber governance and policy, cybersecurity compliance, data analysis and manipulation, cyber reconnaissance and analytics, and cyber strategy and operations.

• Active and current TS/SCI w/ CI Poly is required.

• Must be willing and able to work on-site in Fort Meade, MD, 5 days per week.

• 8+ years of experience in defensive cyber operations (DCO) or offensive cyber operations (OCO) supporting live operations, including threat hunting and neutralizing advanced persistent threats (APTs) or conducting interactive on-net maneuvers (ION) using command-and-control (C2) frameworks in endpoint detection and response (EDR) environments.

• Experience supporting U.S. Cyber Command cyber operations, including planning and implementing cyber community education, training, or qualification programs.

• Ability to travel up to 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience as a Cyber Operator or in Cyberspace maneuver operations, offensive/defensive cyber tools, and vulnerability exploitation simulations .

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Maryland, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to Baltimore and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $125,000 - $200,000.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.