Cyberspace Exercise Planner

Leidos seeks a Cyberspace Exercise Planner to design, coordinate, and execute cyber training and readiness exercises for government and commercial clients. In this role, you will develop realistic scenarios, threat emulation plans, and red/blue team activities to test defenses, procedures, and incident response. You will work with cyber operators, mission owners, and leadership to capture requirements, define objectives, and deliver after-action reports with measurable improvements. The position involves integrating cyber tools and ranges, tracking performance metrics, supporting accreditation and compliance needs, and mentoring participants in cyber operations best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and plan cyberspace training and readiness exercises
• Develop realistic cyber threat scenarios and red/blue team activities
• Coordinate exercise logistics with internal and external stakeholders
• Integrate cyber ranges, tools, and networks into exercise environments
• Capture mission and training objectives and translate them into exercise requirements
• Lead or support execution of exercises and real-time control of events
• Analyze performance data and produce detailed after-action reports
• Recommend improvements to cyber defenses, processes, and incident response plans
• Ensure exercises align with applicable security, policy, and compliance frameworks
• Support knowledge sharing and mentoring on cyber operations best practices

Required Skills

• Cyber exercise planning
• Cyber range configuration and operation
• Red/blue team operations
• Threat emulation and adversary simulation
• Incident response processes
• Network security and monitoring
• Vulnerability assessment tools
• Scripting or automation for cyber ranges
• Technical report and after-action writing
• Risk and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, Do
• D RMF)