Red Cyberspace Operator with Security Clearance

This position is contingent upon contract award. Valiant is seeking to conditionally hire a Red Cyberspace Operator to perform vulnerability assessments on Department of Defense communications systems. Red Cyberspace Operator are responsible to emulate a potential adversary''s cyber reconnaissance, exploitation techniques, and attack capabilities against a targeted mission, system, network, component, or capability. RESPONSIBILITIES • Emulate an adversary by researching the structure, ideology, intentions, tactics, and capabilities of adversarial organizations to develop threat characterizations. • Contribute to threat emulation by identifying information requirements, develop assessment strategies and collection plans, identify information sources, and develop and conduct research of publicly available information to determine adversary courses of action and relevant information requirements. • Analyze and characterize targeted mission, system, network, component, or capability and conduct analysis appropriate to the program, identify essential functions/tasks and critical assets necessary to perform them as determined by the program leader. • Develop courses of action an adversary could employ in and through cyberspace directed against customer personnel, equipment, facilities, networks, information and information systems, infrastructure, and supply chains. • Support field assessments from an adversary perspective by conducting field assessments and demonstrate cyber courses of actions. Synthesize findings to support vulnerability identification, course of action development, protection studies, trend analyses, risk analysis, and mitigation strategies. • Determine implications of vulnerabilities identified in other specialists and incorporate those vulnerabilities with the systems analysis and determine impacts to the national and military missions they support. • Must possess an active TS/SCI Top Secret clearance. • Bachelor of Science degree in computer networks, cybersecurity or related major. In lieu of a degree, commensurate experience may be substituted. • Must possess a current Department of Defense Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II and current Department of Defense Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP) Auditor certifications. • At a minimum, must satisfy the DoD IAT Level II and CSSP Auditor certifications, the candidate must have successfully completed at least one course from each of these categories: - IAT Level II CCNA Security CySA+ (CSA+) GICSP GSEC Security+ CE CND SSCP; - CSSP Auditor CEH CySA+ (CSA+) CISA GSNA CFR PenTest • Senior-level knowledge of computer networks, industrial control systems, radio, wireless, and other communication systems. Significant experience working hands-on with computer network modeling software and computer network vulnerability/compliance analysis software. • Strong proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite of tools. • Ability to follow written and verbal instructions with a high degree for attention to detail. • Ability to prioritize work and complete multiple tasks under deadlines. • Excellent reasoning, communication, and problem-solving skills. • Ability to interact with employees from other departments or groups. • Must be capable of transporting and lifting 40-pound boxes of documents and equipment. • Must be able to travel unaccompanied to foreign and domestic locations. • Place of performance: Lorton, Virginia Travel: All positions on an assessment team are deployable and must: • Be able to travel on short notice, work non-standard hours and take on-call duty. • Have (or obtain) a passport. • Travel is 25% or greater and includes travel to national and international locations. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled

Created: 2025-11-15