F-35 JPO Security Specialist - Generalist

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Pipeline

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure.

Job Description

Join General Dynamics IT and be a part of the team of men and women that solve some of the world's most complex technical challenges. We are seeking a Security Specialist – General to join the F-35 program in Arlington, Virginia.

The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) leads life-cycle management of the F-35 Lightning II, the fifth-generation joint strike fighter serving the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Cooperative Program Partners (CPP), and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers across multiple classification levels.

Support includes Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), Special Access Programs (SAP), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). The F-35 JPO Security Directorate provides full-spectrum, multi-disciplined security support to protect F-35 technology and information across the enterprise and throughout the acquisition and sustainment lifecycle, spanning Continental United States (CONUS) and overseas operations globally.

The role of the Security Specialist – General (Senior) is to provide SME-level guidance and senior-level interface across general security functions spanning multiple security disciplines for the F-35 JPO Security Directorate, addressing topics and issues that cut across or extend beyond a single security discipline:

• Provide multi-disciplined security support across General Security (GENSEC), Industrial Security (INDUSEC), Information Security (INFOSEC), Personnel Security (PERSEC), and Physical Security (PHYSEC) disciplines as required

• Perform risk management and risk analysis to evaluate security threats and vulnerabilities across applicable security disciplines; provide the F-35 JPO Security Director with options and resource requirements to implement mitigations

• Analyze security-related processes, procedures, and policies; notify F-35 JPO Security of issues and recommend corrective actions

• Provide recommendations and innovative solutions with a high degree of independent thinking and initiative, requiring minimal supervision

• Communicate and interact effectively in writing and orally with colleagues, counterparts, senior officials in U.S. and foreign government military and civilian agencies, and representatives of diverse cultures

• Maintain working knowledge and demonstrated experience executing a multi-disciplined security program spanning all classification levels, including CUI, collateral, SAP, NATO, and SCI

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Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Security Management or a related discipline, OR Bachelor's Degree plus four (4) years of additional work experience in security management

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience performing multi-discipline security support for DoD or intelligence community programs

• Specialized knowledge and experience in security management within the DoD or similar organizations

• Demonstrated ability to provide SME-level guidance and senior-level interface across multiple security disciplines and classification domains

• Top Secret/SAR clearance required

WHAT CAN GDIT OFFER YOU?

• Excellent customizable health benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)

• 401K with company match

• Educational Assistance and eLearning

• Flexible work week

• Internal mobility team dedicated to employee advancement

• Rewards and Recognition programs

• Innovative and collaborative environment encouraging of highly motivated critical thinking

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

10 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

10-25%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required