Manager, Strategic Cyber Initiatives

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

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If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Salary Range:

$158,000 - $268,600

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Do you want to join a dynamic team that solves significant cybersecurity issues for our nation’s security?

We are seeking a manager (Manager, R&D Science and Engineering) to lead the new Strategic Cyber Initiatives department (8761), leading strategic workforce and partnership initiatives in our cybersecurity R&D mission area. Examples include “Reimagining the Cyber Workforce Model” priority of the Labs’ Cyber Strategy, the D8K Cyber Community of Practice, and a strategic partnership with Women in Cybersecurity. The department is also the home of the Center for Cyber Defenders (CCD) intern institute at the California site. Success requires working closely with cyber capabilities across Center 8700, in addition to engagement and collaboration across Divisions and programs. You will be responsible for owning the 8700 strategy for cyber talent acquisition, workforce development, and community building, which will require navigating unclassified-to-classified boundaries and ensuring alignment with expectations of the broader Sandia cyber capability set.

You will also lead 8760’s strategy for building strategic partnerships with sister labs (e.g., PNNL) and universities (e.g., University of Illinois and Purdue), with a focus on engagements within the Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security (CCIS) portfolio, whose primary customers are Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Science & Technology (S&T). Success in this space is measured by the strength and trust in internal and external partnerships you steward. You will serve as a Program Manager for CCIS External Partnerships with the potential for additional roles within the program over time.

Group 8760 is in a phase of growth and development, as our cybersecurity mission spreads across Center 8700, and Sandia’s cyber mission area focuses on a shared Labs’ Cyber Strategy. You will lead a team recruiting and hiring the talent necessary for our programmatic success and ensuring that our workforce receives the coaching and mentorship to empower them and enable their individual success. This includes leadership of CCD, a year-round, premier intern institute for R&D cybersecurity interns from universities across the nation. You will grow this intern institute from a robust summer program to a year-round talent pipeline.

You will be expected to engage in Center, Division, and Labs leadership roles, focusing particularly on critical initiatives associated with Sandia’s cyber workforce and the Labs’ Cyber Strategy. Given the diverse customers and partners in the Cyber Mission Area, you must be able to tap into relationships between capability and program areas to their mutual benefit while respecting classification and customer sensitivity constraints. Leadership of partnerships and both internal and external collaborations will require travel to multiple Sandia sites, Washington DC, and other locations to meet with partners, collaborators, and other stakeholders. You will be expected to engage in Center, Division, and Labs Leadership roles focusing particularly on central initiatives associated with Sandia's cyber workforce and the Labs' Cyber Strategy.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Use your knowledge of the cybersecurity domain to deliver results in a dynamic and ambiguous environment
• Engage technically with department staff and collaborating organizations to understand and represent the work
• Ensure that initiative goals are satisfied by managing and coordinating specific work, overall program and project plans, budgets, structures, schedules, and staffing requirements
• Build Sandia leadership support for cyber workforce initiatives and strategic partnerships
• Coordinate employee recruitment, selection, training, performance assessment, coaching, work assignments, salary, recognition, and disciplinary actions
• Cultivate a culture of inclusion and take an active leadership role in modeling and growing values in diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Provide oversight of security and need-to-know management procedures spanning unclassified to classified work

The selected applicant can be a virtual worker located in any U.S. State or District of Columbia. However, this position will require at least part-time presence in Livermore, CA to oversee the on-site CCD interns.

This is an amazing opportunity with a fantastic team that is actively defending the nation. Come join us as we shape the future.

Qualifications We Require:

• Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, math, or other related STEM subject area plus 4 years’ relevant experience; or a Bachelor’s degree plus 8 years’ relevant experience
• Three years’ experience leading in the cybersecurity domain
• Ability to travel regularly
• Ability to acquire and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Experience recruiting, hiring, and retaining diverse and passionate staff
• A strong record of technical leadership and impact
• Willingness to manage a team of staff with flexible work arrangements including onsite unclassified and classified work, virtual work, telecommuting, detailees at customer locations, and matrix agreements
• Demonstrated ability to build trusting relationships with multi-disciplinary teams that include internal stakeholders, external sponsors, national lab partners, academic collaborators, and industry partners
• Ability to lead strong teams of staff and/or managers across multiple organizations while enabling/fostering a culture of innovation, including research and development
• Experience collaborating with the Sandia cyber mission area at both Albuquerque and Livermore sites, including the Threat Intelligence Community and Cyber Enterprise Security
• Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion with highly sensitive information (both classified and unclassified)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to excel in a team management environment
• Current DOE Q and SCI security clearances or DoD SCI equivalent or willingness to obtain and maintain a DOE SCI security clearance

About Our Team:

Information Security Sciences conducts research, develops tools and methods, and works closely with customers to support cybersecurity across a wide range of mission areas.

Working in close collaboration with Sandia Cyber Security, we support the Cyber Board of Directors to enact the Labs’ Cyber Strategy. Our capabilities and initiatives include involvement with the Software Understanding Council, Sandia Mobile Strategy (SMS), and ND Mission Area Integrating Initiatives. We also participate in the Cyber Rotation Program and lead Sandia California’s Center for Cyber Defenders (CCD) Intern Institute.

Our complementary support of programs includes National Security Programs; Information Operations (NSP/IO); Energy & Homeland Security, Homeland Security Programs, Homeland Infrastructure Security & Resilience (E&HS/HSP/HISR): Cyber & Critical Infrastructure Security (CCIS).

We support DHS Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), DHS Science & Technology (S&T) Cyber Security & Infrastructure Programs, and DOE’s Chief Information Officer, and actively manage research collaborations with academic institutions.

About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

Job ID: 687883