Cyber Security SME

Responsibilities

• Provide expert cybersecurity guidance across enterprise systems, cloud environments, applications, networks, and mission platforms.
• Lead the development and implementation of innovative cyber defense strategies that improve detection, prevention, response, and recovery capabilities.
• Assess current cyber defense posture and recommend practical, scalable improvements aligned with mission, business, and regulatory requirements.
• Design and support implementation of layered defense models, including Zero Trust, endpoint protection, identity-based security, network segmentation, encryption, threat monitoring, and secure cloud controls.
• Evaluate emerging cybersecurity technologies, tools, and methodologies to determine applicability, maturity, risk, and operational value.
• Support development of cybersecurity roadmaps, implementation plans, maturity models, and modernization strategies.
• Advise leadership on cyber risk, threat trends, security gaps, mitigation strategies, and investment priorities.
• Collaborate with technical teams, program managers, architects, engineers, system owners, and business stakeholders to integrate security into planning, development, operations, and sustainment activities.
• Support security assessments, risk assessments, authorization activities, audits, and compliance reviews.
• Provide expertise in federal cybersecurity frameworks and standards, including NIST, RMF, FISMA, FedRAMP, CMMC, CIS Controls, and Zero Trust guidance.
• Recommend automation, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and security orchestration approaches to improve cyber defense effectiveness.
• Support incident response planning, tabletop exercises, root cause analysis, and lessons-learned activities.
• Develop cybersecurity policies, procedures, playbooks, technical guidance, briefings, and executive-level decision materials.
• Mentor junior and mid-level cybersecurity staff and promote knowledge sharing across technical teams.
• Identify opportunities to reduce risk, improve efficiency, strengthen resilience, and advance the organization's cyber maturity.
• This position may perform other duties as assigned. The responsibilities listed above are representative and not intended to be all-inclusive.
• Innovation-Focused Cyber Defense Responsibilities
• Develop creative, mission-aligned approaches to implementing cybersecurity controls without unnecessarily slowing business operations.
• Promote proactive defense concepts such as threat-informed defense, continuous monitoring, attack surface reduction, deception technology, behavioral analytics, and purple-team collaboration.
• Recommend ways to use automation and orchestration to reduce manual cyber response actions and improve response time.
• Integrate cyber threat intelligence into defensive planning, vulnerability prioritization, and operational decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve security through secure-by-design, privacy-by-design, and resilience-by-design principles.
• Support pilot programs, proofs of concept, and technology evaluations for new cyber defense capabilities.
• Translate emerging cyber risks into actionable defense strategies that are understandable to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience, including experience supporting enterprise-level security programs.
• Demonstrated experience advising senior leaders, program managers, and technical teams on cybersecurity risk and defense strategies.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, security engineering, vulnerability management, incident response, identity and access management, cloud security, and cont

Additional Information

9th Way Insignia is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business bringing transformative technology to our government customers so they can achieve their missions. Our specialties include cybersecurity, cloud modernization, software development, data analytics, enterprise architecture, enterprise IT, analytics, process automation, and artificial intelligence. Learn more about 9th Way Insignia at https://9thwayinsignia.com/. Application password: Niner Position Overview The Cyber Security Subject Matter Expert serves as a senior technical advisor responsible for guiding the design, implementation, modernization, and continuous improvement of enterprise cyber defense capabilities. This role provides expert-level support across cybersecurity strategy, architecture, operations, risk management, compliance, incident response, and emerging technology adoption. The Cyber Security SME will place strong emphasis on innovative approaches to implementing cyber defenses , ensuring the organization is not only compliant with security requirements but also forward-looking, adaptive, and resilient against evolving threats.

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