Cyberspace Operations Planner

About the role

Amentum is recruiting a Cyberspace Operations Planner to support defense missions that protect national security. The role applies military intelligence and operations expertise across planning, approval and execution, and works from government facilities near Fort Meade, MD, with possible CONUS/OCONUS travel and occasional telework.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze mission intent, organizational relationships and the operational environment to frame mission analysis and conceptualize operational frameworks.
• Develop plans and orders for exercises, wargaming, offensive and defensive operations, crises, contingencies and combat, using the Joint Planning Process (JPP).
• Conduct capability assessments covering force readiness, risks, vulnerabilities and adversarial parameters.
• Apply Joint doctrine to produce Planning Orders, Execution Orders, Operation Plans, Concept of Operation Plans, Campaign Plans, Theater Strategy and cooperative security agreements for cyberspace operations.
• Draft Warning Orders, Operation Orders and assessment guidance.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience supporting military or government cyberspace planning or cryptologic missions.
• 3+ years of operational planning on a joint staff, combatant command or Service component staff.
• Bachelor's degree; 10+ years of planning experience may substitute for a degree.
• TS/SCI clearance, with initial and annual Intelligence Oversight training.

Required skills

• Joint Planning Process (JPP) and Joint planning doctrine.
• Planning orders (PLANORDS, EXORDS, OPLANS, CONPLANS, WARNORDS, OPORDS).
• Knowledge of offensive and defensive cyberspace operations, SIGINT, information operations or space and electronic warfare.
• Executive summaries, recommendations, and briefing senior leadership.
• Preferred: JOPES/APEX, MOC processes, project charters, KM solutions, MS Excel and PowerPoint.

What we offer

• Projected salary range of $88,000 to $198,000 per year.
• Health, life, disability, financial and retirement benefits, paid leave, tuition assistance and work-life programs (full-time/part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week).