• Provide overall leadership, direction, and day to day management for all work performed under the CISO Task Order, ensuring alignment with DSS 3.0 objectives, service levels, and security requirements
• Serve as the primary point of contact with the DHS CISO Directorate Stakeholders overseeing the Security Engineering, NOC, and ISSO teams, driving services, products, and innovations, coordinating status, risks, and decisions, and ensuring clear, timely communication
• Organize, direct, and manage complex, inter related IT and cybersecurity projects spanning systems engineering, network operations, endpoint services, cloud integration, and security engineering in both classified and unclassified environments
• Ensure effective IT service management using ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Event, Configuration, and Release Management), integrating these with DHS SELC and HQ governance to support secure, resilient operations
• Develop, implement, and maintain a staffing plan that ensures sufficient cleared and qualified personnel across all required roles (systems, network, security, service desk, AI support, project management) to meet dynamic workload and surge demands
• Monitor performance metrics against DHS SLAs, conduct regular reviews to identify trends or patterns, and implement corrective actions, innovations, and process improvements
• Lead transition in and transition out activities for the task order, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer, asset handoff, and continuity of secure services with no degradation in availability or security posture
• Direct integration efforts across the end user services and IT lifecycle, ensuring that CISO relevant tools, controls, and processes are consistently applied across infrastructure, cloud, and application environments
• Oversee implementation and remediation of IT infrastructure and systems Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) and vulnerability mitigation activities in coordination with HQ security engineering and compliance teams
• Ensure robust backup, restore, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations planning and execution for systems and services within the CISO task order scope, supporting COOP and continuity of government objectives
• Drive continuous improvement, process standardization, and performance management for security and IT operations, including metrics, dashboards, and reporting for availability, incidents, vulnerabilities, and compliance
• Oversee development and delivery of end user training and documentation related to security tools, policies, and secure use of HQ IT services, ensuring materials are updated as services and threats evolve
• Ensure rapid response (within defined timeframes) to performance, service, delivery, and technical issues, ensuring timely escalation and resolution of critical incidents and security-related events
• Act as a senior escalation point and be ready to authorize resources for real-time reallocations and/or to take necessary actions to resolve incidents and requests
• Ensure incident response process is followed at all times but especially during major outages and security incidents
• Perform additional duties as assigned.